I headed up the design and implementation of public health interventions in rural settings in Northern Vietnam. This project focused primarily on interventions to reduce childhood malnutrition, helminth infection, anemia and educate regarding infant and child feeding practices and high impact public health messaging. I continued to work closely with the Ministry of Health of Vietnam as we were integration principal factor analysis on the causes and proprietors of poor health outcomes. My skill set also indues a strong background in multivariate regression modeling, research grant writing, budgeting, logistic modeling and design and also enjoy people and teams as well.My required duties included; innovative project design, excel budgeting and bookkeeping skills, good public communication skills and design for training, on-time reporting and a strongly motivated personal work ethic.

I worked as a project manager/research fellow for Ryerson University (Toronto) and lesioned with my office being in the National Institute of Nutrition of Vietnam. The project started a complimentary food factory that purchased local produce from co-ops initiated from substance farmers and the facility fortified the foods with extra vitamins and minerals. The fortified complimentary food is currently being sold locally in areas of high rates of malnutrition and for flood disaster response in 2021.

I consulted to collaborate with researchers and institutions over SE Asia to produce high quality nutrition related research and media messages to influence policy makers and improve health and healthcare and public health related messaging throughout SE Asia. In addition to making monthly updates for the Scaling Up Nutrition Network and the Alive and Thrive periodicals, I was a co-author on a breastfeeding and maternal protection paper in the International Breastfeeding Journal as well as a acknowledged for contributions to a paper on the ‘Annual Cost of Not Breastfeeding in Indonesia”.Siregar AYM, Pitriyan P, Walters D, Brown M, Phan LTH, Mathisen R. The financing need for expanded maternity protection in Indonesia. Int Breastfeed J. 2019 Jun 25;14:27. doi: 10.1186/s13006-019-0221-1. PMID: 31289458; PMCID: PMC6593591.I also was acknowledged for contributions of the “Cost of Not Breastfeeding in Indonesia” paper.Siregar AYM, Pitriyan P, Walters D. The annual cost of not breastfeeding in Indonesia: the economic burden of treating diarrhea and respiratory disease among children (< 24mo) due to not breastfeeding according to recommendation. Int Breastfeed J. 2018 Mar 2;13:10. doi: 10.1186/s13006-018-0152-2. PMID: 29507601; PMCID: PMC5833067.

I worked as a research fellow and product development in the National Institute of Nutrition and translated governmental legislature and scientific papers for the Ministry of Health of Vietnam. I was involved in making the first Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic-Food (RUTF) in SE Asia to meet international standards. The primary investigator was Dr. Frank Wieringa of the Institut de Rechearche pour le Développment based out of France. The project was also in conjunction with FANTA II, UNICEF, FHI 360 and funded by USAID.Wieringa, F.T, Trần NT, Hoang M. A, Brown M, Maalouf-Manasseh Z, Lưu T,Nguyễn Minh, Hợp Le, Berger J. 2013. "Acceptability of Two Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods among HIV-Positive Patients in Vietnam." Washington, DC: FHI 360.I have extensive experience with regression modeling (logistic, linear and multivariate) and research statistics due to my M.Sc. thesis in Human Nutrition (University of British Columbia). I am well versed in research methodologies and SPSS.Brown, M. 2013. “Underweight status, household food security and associated characteristics among women >18y in Binh Phuoc Province, Vietnam”. UBC Press.Vu TT, Nguyen TL, Nguyen CK, Nguyen TD, Skeaff CM, Venn BJ, Walmsley T, George PM, McLean J, Brown MR, Green TJ. 2009. "Folate and vitamin B12 status of women of reproductive age living in Hanoi City and Hai Duong Province of Vietnam." Public Health Nutrition. 2009 Jul;12(7):941-6.

I was a teaching assistant and also My first publication was in the Cambridge journal of Public Health Nutrition was a study the explored rates of Neural Tube Defects and levels of Folate / B12 in Hanoi in Hai Duong Province. Vu TT, Nguyen TL, Nguyen CK, Nguyen TD, Skeaff CM, Venn BJ, Walmsley T, George PM, McLean J, Brown MR, Green TJ. 2009. "Folate and vitamin B12 status of women of reproductive age living in Hanoi City a