The World Fellows

Founder and Executive Director, Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives

Khuat Thi Hai Oanh is the Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Supporting Community Development Initiatives (SCDI), an NGO that improves the quality of life for the most marginalized populations in Vietnam through community empowerment and policy advocacy.  Under her leadership, SCDI reaches out to and helps improve the physical, socio-psycho and economic well-being of thousands of sex workers, drug users, people living with HIV and their spouses, as well as men who have sex with men. In 2007, Khuat founded the Vietnam Civil Society Partnership Platform on AIDS, which brings together hundreds of civil society groups and organizations in coordinated efforts to combat HIV and AIDS.  She was honored as a Young Global Leader in 2009 by the World Economic Forum.