Center for Population, Environment and Social Issues Research

General introduction

The Center for Population, Environment and Social Issues Research was established under Decision No. 237QD/XHNV dated February 20, 2002 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU. The Center is a scientific organization, researching, training and applying science on gender, population, environment, social work, as well as social issues in the development process.

The primary goal of the Center is to gather and build a team of scientists, undergraduate and graduate students at home and abroad to conduct training programs, research and disseminate knowledge on gender, environment, population and social work.

The Center is organized on the basis of specific programs to ensure that activities are carried out in the most dynamic, flexible and effective manner. The Center's research and training programs include:

• Gender, environment and climate change.
• Public health issues.
• Population change, migration and population quality.
• Industrialization, urbanization and social issues.

The Center aims to develop into a leading domestic unit in the field of Gender and Environment research.

The Center has a team of part-time staff who are scientific experts inside and outside the school. In addition, the Center also has a large team of collaborators, who are excellent staff, lecturers and students, with capacity and experience in the fields of Social Work, Community Development, Sociology, Demography, Social Psychology, Education, Economics, etc.

Typical activities

The Center has implemented a number of cooperation programs with domestic and international organizations such as: Document translation and book compilation program on Sociology, Social Work, Community Development with the support of the Ford Foundation, Social Work lecturer training program with the support of UNICEF, Research program on human resources for social work with children.

About science

• For the first time, it opened up international cooperation and exchange, creating conditions for the meeting of scientists inside and outside the school, internationally in the fields of Population, Social Work, and Sociology.
• Compiled 10 valuable books on Sociology, Social Work and Community Development.
• Contributing significantly to the development of Vietnamese Sociology, creating conditions for the establishment of the Vietnam Sociological Association.
• The Center has implemented 15 domestic and international topics and projects, including 02 state-level science and technology topics and many ministerial and city-level topics.

On training and development of staff

• Opened 04 training courses for Social Work lecturers taught by foreign professors.
• Send a number of young cadres to study abroad.
• Established the Social Work major at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU.

On foreign relations

• Expanding domestic and international relations contributes to enhancing the position and reputation of the school domestically and internationally, contributing to building and developing the Faculty of Sociology and the Faculty of Social Work of Ho Chi Minh City National University.
• Established cooperation with more than two dozen universities around the world (USA, France, Japan, Belgium, Australia, Germany...).

Although it has not been in operation for long, the Center for Gender, Population, Environment and Social Issues Research has an important position in research and training activities in the fields that the Center undertakes, and has received the trust and cooperation of domestic and foreign scientists.

Contact information

7th Floor, Building M, University of Social Sciences and Humanities - VNU

No. 336 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan, Hanoi.

Phone: (024) 35578704

E-mail:cgpesa@gmail.com