# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nguyen-thanh-long
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:58:08.498Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nguyen-thanh-long"
name: "Nguyễn Thanh Long"
slug: "nguyen-thanh-long"
description: "Nguyễn Thanh Long is a former Vietnamese politician and medical doctor who served as Minister of Health from July 2020 until his removal from the Communist Party of Vietnam in June 2022 for involvement in the Việt Á corruption scandal. During his term as Minister of Health, he was in acting capacity from July to November 2020. He has been noted for being one of the chief strategists of the response of the Vietnamese government to the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2024, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for taking bribes worth USD 2.25 million and expelled from Vietnam's Communist Party."
tagline: "Vietnamese medical doctor and politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mr._Nguyen_Thanh_Long.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1966-09-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.74
  momentum:             0.7860262008733623
  historical:           6.570809333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AE%E9%9D%92%E9%BE%99"
    title: "阮青龙"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thanh_Long"
    title: "Nguyễn Thanh Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thanh_Long"
    title: "Nguyễn Thanh Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thanh_Long"
    title: "Nguyễn Thanh Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thanh_Long"
    title: "Nguyễn Thanh Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%94%D0%BD_%D0%A2%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Нгуєн Тхань Лонг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Thanh_Long"
    title: "Nguyễn Thanh Long"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24957446"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump