Digital Project Manager
BCom(Curtin), BA Information Systems and Technology
Bec Nguyen is a Digital Project Manager with the Health Promotion and Education Research team, overseeing all digital health projects.
She is currently project managing CoLab’s Bright Tomorrows App Project and The Beacon App Project.
Her background in digital health project management, UX (user experience) design thinking and community engagement has enabled her to collaborate with a number of digital health projects across multiple research focus areas at Telethon Kids Institute to support the translation of research to the wider community through digital technology and smartphone apps.
She advocates strongly to include the involvement of the community, especially children and young people, to be co-designers and co-researchers within each project.
Since 2015, she has directly contributed to grant and philanthropic funding applications in digital health research with a funding total of over $3.7 million.
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Projects
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Publications
March 2020
Developing a smartphone application to support social connectedness and wellbeing in young people with cystic fibrosis
This study developed and tested a highly usable, and moderately acceptable, smartphone app to improve the psychosocial health of young people living with CF
Cystic Fibrosis Published research Health Promotion & EducationJanuary 2018Bullying and mental health amongst Australian children and young people with cystic fibrosis
This study describes the peer bullying experiences of young people with CF, and examines associations between school bullying and the psychological well-being of these young people
Cystic Fibrosis Published research Health Promotion & Education Youth Mental Health -
Education and Qualifications
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Active Collaborations