Hoang-Viet Tran, BS is a third-year MD/MPH student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is a first-generation Vietnamese American, born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. He earned his BS in Biology with a minor in Asian Studies from Rhodes College. Currently, he is completing a research fellowship at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where his work focuses on demographic disparities in glaucoma quality of life.
Throughout medical school, Tran has remained involved with the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA), serving as his local chapter’s Co-President and now on the National Board as one of the Hepatitis Directors. He also serves as Health Equity Lead for OCA-DC, the local chapter of a national AANHPI advocacy nonprofit. In this role, he leads a large-scale, community-based initiative focused on disaggregating AANHPI health data and addressing health disparities across the greater Washington, DC area.

Tran plans to pursue a career in ophthalmology and continue his work in health equity and public health advocacy. In his free time, he enjoys photographing everything, being a plant dad, and trying out new fitness hobbies.