Phuoc Le, MD, MPH, DTM+H

Phuoc Le graduated from Dartmouth in 2000 with a double major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures. He then matriculated at Stanford Medical School where he earned his MD. During his time at Stanford, Phuoc also obtained a Master's of Public Health from UC Berkeley with a focus on global health. He completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Global Health Equity at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. During residency he has worked with the NGO Partners in Health (PIH) to provide equitable health care in Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, and most recently, post-earthquake Haiti. He has participated in both quantitative and qualitative public/community health, and anthropological research in Tibet, Shanghai, and Qinghai, PRC, and Geneva, Switzerland.

Currently, Phuoc is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at UCSF, where he is a hospitalist splitting his time between both departments. He co-directs the Global Health-Hospital Medicine Fellowship at UCSF. He is also an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Most recently, he co-founded the HEAL Initiative, an interprofessional 2-year global health delivery fellowship.
Education
2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California
M.D., 2006 - School of Medicine, Stanford Unversity
MPH, 2004 - Public Health, UC Berkeley
BA, 2000 - Biochem/Chinese, Dartmouth College
Honors and Awards
  • Top Hospitalist, American College of Physicians, 2015
  • Award for Excellence in Humanitarian Services, Society of Hospital Medicine, 2015
  • Partners in Excellence Award for Community Service, BWH, 2010
  • Resident Mentorship Award, BWH Dept of Medicine, 2010
  • National Med-Peds Resident’ Association Case Competition Winner, MGH Dept of Pediatrics, 2010
  • Resident Excellence in Teaching Award, MGH Dept of Pediatrics, 2010
Websites

  1. Zeng D, Car LT, Khunti K, Liu Y, Bärnighausen T, Chavannes NH, Keane PA, Kunz H, Xue L, Sung JJY, Tham YC, Righetto L, Sarker R, Wong SYS, Boudreau D, Dai Q, Jia W, Liu Y, Shen D, Liu J, Shen W, Ji JS, Wang Z, Wang Z, Wang H, Tang S, Pei C, Jiang Z, Zou Z, Qin Y, Li H, Wang Y, Gunasekeran DV, Wong S, Xu D, Urbanowicz R, Laranjo L, Neves AL, Liu N, He Y, Le PV, Bressler N, Atun R, Klonoff DC, Sheng B, Shah N, Car J, Wong TY. PRIMARY-AI: outcomes-based standards to safeguard primary care in the AI era. Nature medicine 2026. PMID: 41673309


  2. Akey M, Groves B, Hudspeth JC, Rabin TL, Cortez S, Silvers R, Novotny J, Negussie F, Orozco P, Le P, Sawhney R, Raykar N, Arteaga M, Davis Rodriguez JA, Curran M, Byekwaso S, Saab F, Bandolin NS, Lipnick MS. Pathways to Clinical Training Opportunities for International Medical Students and IMGs: The California Experience. Annals of global health 2026. PMID: 41522794


  3. Chen H, Zeng D, Qin Y, Fan Z, Ng Yu Ci F, Klonoff DC, Ji JS, Zhang S, Amissah-Arthur KN, Jiménez de Tavárez MM, Masood S, Van Le P, Keane PA, Sheng B, Wong TY, Tham YC. Large language models and global health equity: a roadmap for equitable adoption in LMICs. The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific 2025. PMID: 41158957


  4. Ha TM, Nguyen QT, Liew SC, Mayne J, Le PV. The transition to clerkshIps bootcamp: Innovative and flexible curriculum strategies post COVID-19 adaptation. Medical education 2024. PMID: 39552182


  5. Vincanne Adams, Renchen Dhondup, Phuoc V. Le. Chapter 5 A Tibetan Way of Science: Revisioning Biomedicine as Tibetan Practice. 2022. PMID:


  6. Harvey M, Neff J, Knight KR, Mukherjee JS, Shamasunder S, Le PV, Tittle R, Jain Y, Carrasco H, Bernal-Serrano D, Goronga T, Holmes SM. Structural competency and global health education. Global public health 2020. PMID: 33351721


  7. Tobey M, Amir O, Beste J, Jung P, Shamasunder S, Tutt M, Shah S, Le P. Physician Workforce Partnerships in Rural American Indian/Alaska Native Communities and the Potential of Post-Graduate Fellowships. Journal of health care for the poor and underserved 2019. PMID: 31130529


  8. Lo JC, Baudendistel TE, Dandekar A, Le PV, Siu S, Blumberg B. Innovative partnerships to advance public health training in community-based academic residency programs. Advances in medical education and practice 2017. PMID: 29056858


  9. Chu JN, Le PV, Kennedy CJ, McPhee SJ, Wong C, Stewart SL, Nguyen TT. Factors Associated with Hepatitis B Knowledge Among Vietnamese Americans: A Population-Based Survey. Journal of immigrant and minority health 2017. PMID: 27900593


  10. Asao S, Lewis B, Harrison JD, Glass M, Brock TP, Dandu M, Le P. Ethics Simulation in Global Health Training (ESIGHT). MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources 2017. PMID: 30800792


  11. A. Aurrecoechea, R. Tittle, P.V. Le. A Trainee-Focused Approach to Program Monitoring in a Novel Multidisciplinary Global Health Fellowship and Global Health Delivery Model. Annals of global health 2017. PMID:


  12. A. Aurrecoechea, R. Tittle, P.V. Le. Initial Outcomes for Program Monitoring of a Novel Multidisciplinary Global Health Fellowship and Global Health Delivery Model. Annals of global health 2017. PMID:


  13. Citrin D, Mehanni S, Acharya B, Wong L, Nirola I, Sherchan R, Gauchan B, Karki KB, Singh DR, Shamasunder S, Le P, Schwarz D, Schwarz R, Dangal B, Dhungana SK, Maru S, Mahar R, Thapa P, Raut A, Adhikari M, Basnett I, Kaluanee SP, Deukmedjian G, Halliday S, Maru D. Power, potential, and pitfalls in global health academic partnerships: review and reflections on an approach in Nepal. Global health action 2017. PMID: 28914185


  14. M.S. Lipnick, E. Ayebale, F. Lester, M. Autry, S. Shamasunder, P.V. Le. Novel global health fellowship model for anesthesia, obstetrics & gynecology and surgery. Annals of global health 2016. PMID:


  15. R.S. Goldman, R.L. Tittle, A.E. Waters, B. Lewis, P.V. Le, S. Shamasunder. Preparing trainees to practice global health equity: the experience from the first year of the Health Equity Action and Leadership (HEAL) initiative. Annals of global health 2016. PMID:


  16. Harrison JD, Logar T, Le P, Glass M. What Are the Ethical Issues Facing Global-Health Trainees Working Overseas? A Multi-Professional Qualitative Study. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) 2016. PMID: 27417631


  17. E. Wu, M. Singh, P.V. Le, M. Dandu, K. Duderstadt, T. Brock, B. Lewis, H. Lee, S. Shamasunder. Global health bootcamp: An innovative interprofessional course for clinicians dedicated to equitable global health care delivery. Annals of global health 2015. PMID:


  18. S. Asao, B. Lewis, M. Singh, R. Tittle, S. Shamasunder, M. Dandu, H. Lee, P.V. Le. HEAL Initiative. Annals of global health 2015. PMID:


  19. Logar T, Le P, Harrison JD, Glass M. Teaching corner: "first do no harm": teaching global health ethics to medical trainees through experiential learning. Journal of bioethical inquiry 2015. PMID: 25648122


  20. Waters A, Wu E, Shamasunder S, Le P. The role of hospitalists in the Ebola response in the United States and abroad. Journal of hospital medicine 2014. PMID: 25471530


  21. M Shoeb, T Logar, M H Glass, J D Harrison, T P Brock, S James-Ryan, S Barajas, P V Le. Teaching global health ethics using simulation: interprofessional training. The Lancet Global Health 2014. PMID:


  22. Archer NM, Le PV. Haiti: how visiting educators can help the most. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2013. PMID: 23442429


  23. Shoeb M, Le P, Greysen SR. Global health hospitalists: the fastest growing specialty's newest niche. Journal of hospital medicine 2013. PMID: 23418158


  24. Kathleen Erwin, Vincanne Adams, Phuoc Le. Le « geste glorieux » du don de sang en unité de travail et les désirs postsocialistes en Chine urbaine. Les enjeux du don de sang dans le monde 2012. PMID:


  25. Archer N, Moschovis PP, Le PV, Farmer P. Perspective: postearthquake haiti renews the call for global health training in medical education. Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2011. PMID: 21494116


  26. Kathleen Erwin, Vincanne Adams, Phuoc Le. Glorious Deeds: Work Unit Blood Donation and Postsocialist Desires in Urban China. Body & Society 2009. PMID:


  27. Le PV, Jones-Le E, Bell C, Miller S. Preferences for perinatal health communication of women in rural Tibet. Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN 2009. PMID: 19208056


  28. Adams V, Erwin K, Le PV. Public health works: blood donation in urban China. Social science & medicine (1982) 2008. PMID: 19058887


  29. Adams V, Miller S, Craig S, Sonam , Nyima , Droyoung , Le PV, Varner M. Informed Consent in cross-cultural perspective: clinical research in the Tibetan Autonomous Region, PRC. Culture, medicine and psychiatry 2007. PMID: 17968637


  30. Chao SD, Chang ET, Le PV, Prapong W, Kiernan M, So SK. The Jade Ribbon Campaign: a model program for community outreach and education to prevent liver cancer in Asian Americans. Journal of immigrant and minority health 2007. PMID: 17990118


  31. Miller S, Le PV, Craig S, Adams V, Tudor C, Sonam , Nyima , Droyoung , Tshomo M, Lhakpen , Varner M. How to make consent informed: possible lessons from Tibet. IRB 2007. PMID: 18237079


  32. Miller S, Tudor C, Nyima , Thorsten VR, Sonam , Droyoung , Craig S, Le P, Wright LL, Varner MW. Maternal and neonatal outcomes of hospital vaginal deliveries in Tibet. International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics: the official organ of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics 2007. PMID: 17481630


  33. Spiegel PB, Le P, Ververs MT, Salama P. Occurrence and overlap of natural disasters, complex emergencies and epidemics during the past decade (1995-2004). Conflict and health 2007. PMID: 17411460


  34. Spiegel PB, Le PV. HIV behavioural surveillance surveys in conflict and post-conflict situations: a call for improvement. Global public health 2006. PMID: 19153903