Prof. Heng Sopheab, MD, MPH, PhD.

Prof. Heng Sopheab is a Deputy Director of the National Institute of Public Health and Head of Academic Affairs at School of Public Health (SPH). Prof. Heng Sopheab has extensive experiences in public health more than 30 years; of which more than 17 years in HIV/STI related research, epidemiological surveillance, M&E, drug users, sexual and reproductive health and maternal health in Cambodia. He has been involved in teaching at the School of Public Health since 2007. Recently, he has taught Master students in Intermediate Biostatistics. He has supervised and mentored about 75 master students, of which more than 35 have been under his direct supervision and mentorship. Also, he has supervised few national and international PhD students. He is the founder and has served as the Editor of Cambodia Journal of Public Health (CJPH) since 2019. He received his MD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Health Science in 1994.  In 2001, he got his MPH in Int’l Health Program from School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. In 2009, he got his PhD from the Centre for Int’l Health, University of Bergen, Norway. He has published about 60 articles in international and national peer reviewed journals and many research reports and technical reports.