Harvard graduate Nguyễn Đỗ Thu Phương returns to Vietnam

Nguyễn Đỗ Thu Phương, a Vietnamese researcher born in 2001, recently graduated from Harvard Medical School with a Master of Science in Global Health Provision, achieving a perfect 4.0 GPA. As the youngest student in her cohort, she conducted research on the mental health of H’Mông women in Sa Pa during her time at Harvard.

Before her studies in the United States, Phương pursued dual bachelor's degrees in Nursing at VinUniversity and International Economics at Foreign Trade University. Despite receiving an invitation to remain at Harvard as a teaching assistant, she chose to return to Vietnam to focus on her work regarding mental health and medical accessibility for vulnerable communities.