Biography
Hoang Bui graduated with a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and is currently a Health Development Foreign Service Officer and U.S. diplomat with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He recently completed his tour with the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines where he managed the $17.2 million U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) HIV program in Papua New Guinea and $380,000 community-led monitoring activity.
Prior to the Kennedy School, Hoang worked as a public health specialist in Minnesota and California, medical interpreter, and consultant at Minnesota Public Radio. Immediately before his MPP, he interned at the Congressional Research Service, the public policy research arm of the United States Congress, in Washington, D.C. in the Foreign Defense, Trade, and Affairs Department researching U.S.-Asia policy. After his first year at HKS, Hoang took a one year leave of absence to work at USAID/Haiti in Port-au-Prince focusing on health service delivery and as a business development consultant for AWR Lloyd, a business strategy firm in Bangkok, Thailand. He was a researcher with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government where he wrote about the private sector and their role in promoting public health. He is passionate about equity in health, focusing on evidence-based public health and key interventions that serve those who have been left behind. Hoang graduated cum laude with a B.S. in biology and B.A. in Mandarin Chinese from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He is also a two-time recipient of the National Security Education Program Boren Award, former Fulbright Fellow, a USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Fellow, and Harvard University Presidential Scholar. Hoang tenured in Thai at the Foreign Service Institute and is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese.