Huy Pham

Huy Pham is currently the director of International Operations at American Refugee Committee (ARC) International.  Prior to holding that post, Pham served as the Africa regional manager for ARC programs in Liberia, Guinea, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and South Sudan. 

Pham has worked on public health and social development issues since 1986.  He is the former director of the Children’s Rights Program at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.  Pham oversaw two projects on global child survival in Uganda, Mexico and the U.S., and a child labor project in Nepal.  In Vietnam, Pham worked with the Save the Children Fund/UK as a technical consultant for the group's HIV/AIDS Management and Prevention Program. 

In the mid-1980s, Pham was a Peace Corps worker in Liberia, West Africa. He returned there in 1997 to serve as an International Elections Observer with the Friends of Liberia and International Foundation for Election Systems. 

Pham received his M.P.H. in Community Health Education at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.  He completed his undergraduate work in Chemistry and Zoology at the University of Wisconsin.  Pham is co-editor of the report, Global Child Survival:  A Human Rights Priority (MAHR, 1998).