Since the foundation of the Vietnam Public Health Association, VPHA has built 3 community health research centers in Thai Binh, Da Nang, and Dong Thap province, helped for testing and applying public health methods in various sectors: HIV/AIDS, Injury, Tobacco control… With VPHA’s help, some public research were were carried out based on these above centers, contributing to resolvation of health problem in pratice and bringing out valued evidence for advocacy activities of VPHA. VPHA’s research activities drew a great numbers of VPHA members's attention to take part in in doing research and these were presented the annual scientific conferences of VPHA.

Besides, VPHA combined with fields, offices like Hanoi school of public health, Hanoi Medical university, Nutritional Institute… to carry out some great study such as: intervene research named “Reduce risk of infected Dioxin for citizen in Bien Hoa city, Dong Nai province”, and “Impact of tobacco growing on the livelihood and health of tobacco farmers, and environment: A preliminary study in Vietnam”