Mai Nguyen’s professional experience spans clinical practice, healthcare management and leadership, and academia. Her work focuses on health service delivery, human resources for health, health economics, and health insurance, bridging research and practice across multiple components of healthcare systems. Mai Nguyen holds a Master of Science degree from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, and a Ph.D. in Health Services and Health Policy from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. Her doctoral research examined strategies for more effectively managing the expanding private healthcare sector to complement public health services in the pursuit of universal health coverage in Viet Nam. This study investigated patterns of consumer choice between private and public healthcare services. The findings offer important policy implications for the regulation and integration of private health services in Viet Nam and across other Asia-Pacific countries, particularly low- and middle-income countries. At Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, Mai Nguyen extends her research on the roles of private healthcare to supplement the public health sector to address the growing burden of chronic diseases.