Nam Nguyen

Nam Nguyen has been a researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences since February 2025. He previously worked at the Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) within the Nuffield Department of Population Health. His current research focuses on using large healthcare databases to investigate antibiotic prescribing in primary care. His work draws on large observational datasets from both high-income settings (e.g., the Clinical Practice Research Datalink – CPRD) and low-income settings (e.g., the IQVIA Medical Data Index (MDI) for Pakistan, Egypt, and Indonesia) to inform localised guidelines and antibiotic use targets globally.

Prior to joining Oxford, Nam was based at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Hanoi, Vietnam, where he completed his PhD focusing on community-level antimicrobial stewardship in low- and middle-income countries. His PhD research examined antibiotic use patterns in Vietnamese primary care settings and the feasibility of implementing point-of-care testing in private pharmacies to reduce over-the-counter antibiotic sales.