Hanoi Medical University

Hanoi Medical University (doing business as HMU), an international non-profit educational institution headquartered in Vietnam, acts as a federal grant recipient and subrecipient focused on global health research and capacity building, with all recent federal work sourced through the National Institutes of Health and related HHS agencies under Fogarty International Center funding mechanisms. HMU holds no federal contracts and does not compete under set-aside categories; its federal footprint is entirely grant-based, concentrated in NIH international research training and global health intervention adaptation work in Southeast Asia.

HMU's federal work aligns tightly with the Fogarty International Center's International Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.989), which funds the adaptation and pilot testing of evidence-based health interventions for vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries. As a prime grant recipient, HMU conducts three active projects: a $166,535 award (March 2026 through February 2028) adapting Project YES+, a peer-mentoring and group-based mental health intervention, to address depression, anxiety, and HIV-related stigma among adolescent and young men living with HIV in Vietnam; a project adapting the HealthMindr mobilehealth application to improve HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among young men at high risk for HIV, with ultimate completion in March 2026; and a project (award date September 2024, completing August 2029) supporting Dr. Nguyen Thu Trang in a career development track to evaluate the Friendship Bench, a task-shifting mental health intervention, for women who use methamphetamine in Vietnam. As a subrecipient, HMU partners with Vanderbilt University Medical Center (four sub-awards since August 2024), Emory University (four sub-awards since January 2024), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (two sub-awards since May 2023) on training programs in genetic epidemiology, violence prevention research, and alcohol intervention implementation. HMU also participates in a UCLA-led K01 mentored research training award (sub-award February 2024 and September 2024) focused on sexual health and prevention research.

The Fogarty International Center accounts for 16 of 22 recent awards (72% by count) and is HMU's only active customer for prime grant work; the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute on Drug Abuse together account for two additional awards. A single outlier award from the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery ($247 thousand potential value) is the largest single award by dollar magnitude, though the combined obligated amount across all awards ($14.2 million) substantially exceeds the $262 thousand combined potential value, indicating that many awards have been invoiced beyond their stated ceilings. Activity has accelerated from one award in 2022 to seven in 2024, with only one award reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. HMU's role across the portfolio is predominantly subrecipient (13 of 23 awards, 57%) rather than prime, with the institution serving as a field research site, intervention delivery site, and training host for U.S. university-led global health research programs in Vietnam.