Dang Ngo is the Vice President for Asia Pacific, overseeing operations and strategic priorities in Cambodia, China, Laos, Indonesia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and Vietnam, and covering initiatives including hypertension, diabetes, cancer, HIV, TB, malaria, hepatitis, vaccines, sexual and reproductive health, assistive technologies, laboratory system, primary health care, and health information systems. Mr. Ngo is also CHAI’s Country Director in Vietnam, leading a high-performing team to significant successes including scaling up of HIV treatment coverage for children from 9 percent in 2006 to 86 percent in 2015, screening over 1.2 million presumptive TB cases and referring thousands to treatment via the CHAI-developed ACIS mobile platform, adding hepatitis C treatment to the social health insurance, accelerating malaria elimination from 15,752 cases in 2014 to 448 cases in 2023, among others.
Mr. Ngo joined CHAI in 2008 as a Program Coordinator in Vietnam and assumed the Deputy Country Director and Country Director roles in 2010 and 2011, respectively. He is also a member of CHAI’s Leadership Council.
Prior to joining CHAI, Mr. Ngo developed a landmine risk prediction model using statistical tools that changed the UN Mine Action Centre’s approach to reducing landmine incidences in Afghanistan. Additionally, he led the development of market-leading enterprise-level educational tools and websites to link students to universities. He is also an award-winning photographer.