Nguyen Thi Bich Chau

Heartbeat Vietnam, Program Manager

A talented, multilingual asset to VinaCapital Foundation, Chau is passionate about her position at VCF and the role she plays in assisting poor Vietnamese children to achieve their potential.  Since joining East Meets West Foundation in 2005, she has proven her ability to coordinate large-scale charity activities, liaising, and fundraising while acting as an efficient administrator for the foundation's many projects.  Chau has been with VCF since its inception and has been at the heart of its activities - managing the heart program, being the main liaison between the foundation and provincial health authorities, and playing a major role in PR and fundraising activities.  Prior to her move into the humanitarian sector, Chau completed language studies at the University of Social Sciences, HCMC, and spent several years teaching Vietnamese to various multinational companies, as well as working as a Japanese translator.  She also has been trained and worked as a professional MC at John Robert Powers Vietnam.

Lisa Rice Duek, RN, MBA, Dip PH & TropMed

After completing Nurse Training in the UK in 1996, Lisa commenced her career in Bath and London as an emergency room and operating theater nurse. She also worked in the Infectious Diseases Unit of the Royal Free Hospital while studying at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Lisa then spent four years in Paris as a nurse at the British and American Hospital while studying Public Health at the Marie Curie University of Paris.

In 2000 Lisa completed a mission for Médecins Sans Frontières in northern Georgia, where she headed a refugee vaccination campaign for Chechen refugees. In 2002 she commenced her Asian adventure as part of the start-up team for the Franco-Vietnamese Hospital (FV), HCMC’s first international hospital. Lisa worked as the hospital’s Manager of the In- and Out-Patient Departments for four years, where she oversaw a team of 50 nurses and paramedical staff and trained them to international standards.

Lisa completed her MBA in 2006 at RMIT University in Vietnam. Since then, she has worked in various clinical consulting posts, spreading her knowledge and passion for improving quality in healthcare in Vietnam.