Email haoct@nus.edu.sg

Dr. Hao is a trained microbiologist fascinated at how microbes evolve and interact with human. His research seeks to combine high-resolution genomic data and clinical studies to answer relevant public health questions on infectious diseases epidemiology and evolution, and to translate understandings on bacterial evolution and ecology into better approaches in healthcare.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
• Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford

• Molecular Epidemiology
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• Bacterial Genomics, Phylogenetics and Evolution
• Human Microbiom

• Bacterial Genomics and Bioinformatics
• Phylogenetics and Molecular Epidemiology

• DPhil in Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, 2019
• BSc Hons in Biotechnology, University of Nottingham, 2012

• Singapore Academies South-East Asia (SASEA) fellowship, 2024 – 2026
• Wellcome International Training fellowship, 2020 – 2024

• Visiting senior research fellow, National University of Singapore, 2024 – present
• Wellcome International Training fellow, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, 2020 – 2024
• Postdoctoral Scientist, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, 2019 – present
• Graduate Researcher, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam, 2013 – 2018

• Chung The H, P Pham, Tuyen HT, Linh VKP, Yen NP, Son-Nam HL, Duong VT, Chau TTH, Hoang LP, Ngoc NM, Vi LL, Alison E. Mather, Guy Thwaites, Nicholas Thomson, Stephen Baker, and Duy T. Pham. (2023). ‘Multidrug resistance plasmids underlie clonal expansions and international spread of Salmonella enterica serotype 1,4,[5],12:i:- ST34 in Southeast Asia’, Communications Biology, 6:1007. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05365-1
• Hoang NH Tran, Trang NHT, PH Nguyen, CN Vo, KV Doan, Chau NNM, NT Nguyen, VND Ta, KA Vu, TD Hua, TNT Nguyen, Tan TV, Trung PD, Ba Lap Duong, Phuc Minh Nguyen, Vinh Chuc Hoang, Duy Thanh Pham, Guy E Thwaites, Lindsay J Hall, Daniel J Slade, Stephen Baker, Vinh Hung Tran, Chung The H. (2022) ‘Tumour microbiomes and Fusobacterium genomics in Vietnamese colorectal cancer patients’, npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 8:87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-022-00351-7
• Duong BT, James Campbell, Cao TT, Nguyen VMH, Phat VV, To NTN, Chau NNM, Duy T. Pham, Maia A. Rabaa, Nguyen PHL, Nguyen VH, Guy E. Thwaites, C. Louise Thwaites, Stephen Baker, Nguyen Van Vinh Chau and Chung The H. (2021). “Colonization with Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumoniae causes infections in a Vietnamese intensive care unit”, Microbial Genomics. https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000514
• Chung The, H., Boinett, C, Pham Thanh, D., Jenkins, C., Weill, FX, Howden, B., Valcanis, M., De Lappe, N, Cormican, M., Wangchuk, S., Bodhidatta, L., Mason, C., Nguyen, T., Ha Thanh, T., Voong, VP, Vu, TD., Nguyen, PHL, Turner, P., Wick, R., Ceyssens, PJ, Thwaites, GE, Holt, KE, Thomson, NR, Rabaa, MA, and Baker, S. (2019) ‘Dissecting the molecular evolution of fluoroquinolone resistant Shigella sonnei’, Nature Communications, 10, 4828. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12823-0
• Chung The, H., Rabaa, M. A., Pham Thanh, D., Lappe, N. De, Cormican, M., Valcanis, M., Howden, B. P., Wangchuk, S., Bodhidatta, L., Mason, C. J., Nguyen, T. N. T., Thuy, D. V., Thompson, C. N., Lan, N. P. H., Vinh, P. V., Thanh, T. H., Turner, P., Sar, P., Thwaites, G., Thomson, N. R., Holt, K. E. and Baker, S. (2016) ‘South Asia as a reservoir for the global spread of ciprofloxacin resistant Shigella sonnei’, PLoS Medicine, 13(8), pp. 1–12. 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002055