Rate My Professor Nhung Nghiem

Nghiem specializes in public health modelling, economic evaluations of interventions for disease prevention, and assessments of environmental and climate impacts on health. Her research addresses health equity, cost-effectiveness, food pricing strategies, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, multimorbidity, and COVID-19 effects. With 106 publications and over 2,150 citations, key works include 'The effect of food taxes and subsidies on population health and health costs: a modelling study' (2020, The Lancet Public Health); 'Potential effect of real-world junk food and sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on population health, health system costs and greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand: a modelling study' (2022, BMJ Nutrition Prevention & Health); 'Health promoting and demoting consumption: What accounts for budget share differentials by ethnicity in New Zealand' (2022); 'Predicting high health-cost users among people with multimorbidity' (2023, Health Economics Review); and 'Predicting the risk of diabetes complications using machine learning and social administrative data in Aotearoa New Zealand' (2024). Her modelling has informed New Zealand's tobacco endgame legislation (2022), European cardiovascular disease prevention guidelines (2016), and policy evidence on sustainable diets and unemployment's health impacts. She has contributed to scientific grant assessment panels for the New Zealand Health Research Council.