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Tam H. Nguyen

Associate Professor and Strakosch Family Faculty Fellow in Community Health

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Tam H. Nguyen

Ph.D., M.S.N./M.P.H., RN

Contact

Maloney Hall 359

Telephone: 617-552-3669

Email: tam.nguyen@bc.edu

Education

  • B.S.N., University of Maryland
  • M.S.N./M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University
  • Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests

Health promotion/disease prevention; chronic disease management; vulnerable/hard to reach populations; community-based participatory research; psychometrics

Expertise

  • Diabetes
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Health Equity Minority Health
  • Public Health

Profile

Tam. H. Nguyen, Ph.D., M.S.N./M.P.H., RN, is听an associate professor and the Strakosch Family Faculty Fellow in Community Health at the Connell School of Nursing. She teaches courses on evidence-based practice and population/public health. Dr. Nguyen鈥檚 primary line of research focuses on preventing chronic disease, such as high blood pressure and diabetes, among minority populations. Given the challenges many minorities have with health literacy her research also examines the association and impact of health literacy on health outcomes among minorities. Dr. Nguyen was the Principal Investigator on a grant titled, 鈥淗ypertension and Health Literacy among Vietnamese Americans in 2012,鈥� and is currently engaged in research that aims to adapt and translate diabetes prevention interventions for Asian Americans.

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Selected Publications

  • S谩inz-Ruiz, P. A., Sanz-Valero, J., Gea-Caballero, V., Melo, P., Nguyen, T. H., Su谩rez-M谩ximo, J. D., & Mart铆nez-Riera, J. R. (2021). Dimensions of Community Assets for Health. A Systematised Review and Meta-Synthesis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(11), 5758.听DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18115758
  • Melo, P., Sousa, M. I., Dimande, M. M. M., Taboada, S., Nogueira, M. A., Pinto, C., 鈥� Mart铆nez-Riera, J. R. (2020). Descriptive Study of Children鈥檚 Nutritional Status and Identification of Community-Level Nursing Diagnoses in a School Community in Africa. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(17) 6108. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17176108
  • Estrem, H. H., Pados, B. F., Park, J., Thoyre, S., McComish, C., & Nguyen, T. (2020). The Impact of Feeding on the Parent and Family Scales (Feeding Impact Scales): Development and Psychometric Testing. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 29(3). DOI: 10.1891/JNM-D-20-00008
  • Tran, T. V., Nguyen, T. H., & Chan, K. T. (2016). Developing Cross-Cultural Measurement in Social Work Research and Evaluation (2nd ed., Vol. 2nd, pp. 1鈥�199). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Kim, K. B., Kim, M. T., Lee, H. B., Nguyen, T. H., Bone, L. R., & Levine, D. (2016). Community health workers as counselors/case managers in a self-help diabetes management program. American Journal of Public Health, 106(6), 1052-1058. DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303054
  • Nguyen, T. H. (2015). Modern measurement approaches to health literacy scale development and Refinement: Overview, current uses, and next steps. Journal of Health Communication, 20(sup2), 112鈥�115. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1073408
  • Kim, M. T., Kim, K. B., Huh, B., Nguyen, T. H., Han, H. R., Bone, L. R., & Lavine, D. (2015). The Effect of a community-based self-help intervention: Korean Americans with Type 2 Diabetes. American Journal of Preventive Health, 49(5), 726鈥�737. DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.04.033
  • Nguyen, T. H., H. J. Park, Han, H. R., Chan, K., Paasche-Orlow, M., Haun, J., Kim, M. T. (2015). State of the science of health literacy measures: Validity implications for minority populations. Patient Education and Counseling. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2015.07.013
  • Nguyen, T. H., Nguyen, T. N., Fischer, T., Ha, W., & Tran, T. V. (2015). Type 2 diabetes among Asian Americans: Prevalence and prevention. To appear in World Journal of Diabetes, 6(4), 543-547. DOI: 10.4239/wjd.v6.i4.543
  • Han, H. R., Huh, B., Kim, M. T., Kim, J., & Nguyen, T. H. (2014). Development and validation of the assessment of health literacy in breast and cervical cancer screening. Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, 19, 267-284. DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2014.936569
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