Ha Ngan (Milkie) Vu, PhD, has been selected for the William T. Grant Scholars Class of 2031.
Launched in 1982, the William T. Grant Scholars Program has supported the professional development of over 200 talented early-career researchers. Scholars receive $425,000 to execute rigorous five-year research plans that stretch their skills and knowledge into new disciplines, content areas, or methods.
Dr. Vu is a mixed-methods researcher with over a decade of experience conducting community-engaged research to promote health equity. Her research program focuses on developing and implementing culturally-relevant, community-centered solutions to reduce cancer and chronic disease health disparities in Asian American, immigrant, and other minoritized populations.
With the Scholars award, Vu will investigate a parenting intervention to improve 24-hour movement behaviors of U.S. Vietnamese youth, with mentorship from Soyang Kwon, PhD, Research Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University, in measuring 24-hour movement behaviors in youth, and Namratha Kandula, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and in the Program of Asian American Studies at Northwestern University, in community-engaged, multi-behavior lifestyle interventions.
