Mai Thi Ngoc Tran is a public health nursing lecturer. Her areas of expertise include epidemiology, statistics, and community health. She has taught the following subjects: community nursing, research methods, statistical analysis with SPSS, qualitative analysis with NVIVO at Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam and epidemiology, and health communication at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Mai Thi Ngoc Tran is also the principal investigator and manager of projects on HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, and other infectious diseases.