Hoang Minh Tu Van earned her Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy – Ho Chi Minh City in 2007 and worked as a General Practitioner for one year before taking the Master of Medicine (Infection and Immunity) course in University of Sydney – Australia. Back to Vietnam, she worked as both a clinician and researcher in Children’s Hospital 2 for six years. Van has completed her PhD thesis with Oxford University, entitle “ Clinical characteristics, virology and host genetic markers of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in Southern Vietnam” in 2018 and now she is a post-doc researcher in Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam.