Nguyen Hong Hanh, PhD

Adopting the One Health framework as an integrative foundation linking human, animal, and environmental health, Dr. Nguyen’s research investigates how human activities in agricultural and urban systems drive environmental pollution, freshwater biodiversity loss, and subsequent impacts on human health and well-being. Dr. Nguyen obtained her PhD in 2019 in environmental and ecological modelling and is currently pursuing habilitation focused on interdisciplinary modelling of the sources, pathways, and impacts of human activities on freshwater ecosystems within the One Health context. Her main areas of expertise include assessing the impacts of climate and land-use change on surface waters, evaluating wastewater and sewer leakage to groundwater, quantifying large-scale nutrient pollution between urban and non-urban systems, advancing ecotoxicological and environmental risk assessments in relation to landscape processes, and advancing applications of diverse empirical and process-based models to mechanistically explain biodiversity and ecosystem function dynamics under multiple anthropogenic stressors.