Rate My Professor Seng Sopheap

Associate Professor Seng Sopheap, MD, MPH, is Vice Rector at the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. He concurrently serves as a lecturer at the School of Public Health, National Institute of Public Health (NIPH), a position he has held since 2011, and as Coordinator of the Reproductive Health Courses at NIPH. Sopheap obtained his MD from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Health Sciences, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 1993. He further earned an MSc in Disease Control with an option in Reproductive Health from the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, in 2000. His academic and professional focus lies in public health management and reproductive health, areas in which he co-teaches courses at NIPH.

In his career, Seng Sopheap worked as Public Health Specialist and Medical Officer for HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections at the WHO South Pacific Office from 2009 to 2014. At the University of Health Sciences, he headed the Committee of Direction for the development of the institution's Strategic Plan 2019–2023, responsibilities that included developing the proposal, leading the planning process, collecting inputs from sub-committees and stakeholders, summarizing contributions, and authoring the final strategic plan document. He also chaired the Sub-committee of Book Design and Printing, managing the cover design, book production, and review and editing of the plan. Sopheap's research specializations encompass reproductive health, HIV/AIDS prevention, STI management, and TB/HIV collaboration in Cambodia. He has authored or co-authored eight publications listed on ResearchGate, accumulating 199 citations. Key publications include 'Changes in STI services following a community-based STI intervention project in Cambodia' (Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 2008), 'Community action for preventing HIV in Cambodia: evaluation of a national program' (Health Policy and Planning, 2008), 'An Evaluation of Sexually Transmitted Infection Case Management among Female Sex Workers' (2004), 'The multi-step process of building TB/HIV collaboration in Cambodia' (2012), 'Achieving universal access and moving towards elimination of new HIV infections in Phnom Penh, Cambodia' (2014), and 'Uptake of interventions for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in Cambodia' (2012). His contributions have supported national public health initiatives on STI control, HIV prevention, and integration of services in Cambodia's health system.