On January 21, at the Ho Chi Minh City Sports Training and Competition Center (Phu Tho ward), a signing ceremony for a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between the Ho Chi Minh City Sports Training and Competition Center and the Vietnam Sleep Medicine Association took place.
The event marks an important step in making sleep medicine a scientific foundation serving the city's high-performance sports training work.
The ceremony was attended by more than 50 delegates. Representatives of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports were Mr. Cao Van Chong - Deputy Director of the Department. On the side of the organizing and signing unit, there was Mr. Ly Dai Nghia - Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Training and Competition of Physical Education and Sports. Professional partners included leading experts such as Prof. Dr. Duong Quy Sy - Chairman of the Vietnam Sleep Medicine Association; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Khac Bao - Vice Chairman of the Association, Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City University Medical Center Hospital; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Nhu Vinh - Vice Chairman of the Association, Head of the Functional Exploration Department of Ho Chi Minh City University Medical Center Hospital.
Speaking at the event, Mr. Cao Van Chong said that the cooperation signing activity is part of Ho Chi Minh City's major orientation towards developing sports in depth, taking science and technology as the foundation. According to leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports, standardizing sports medicine, including sleep medicine, is an important solution to improve performance, limit injuries and ensure long-term health for athletes.
According to the assignment of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports, the City Sports Training and Competition Center is the focal point directly organizing, coordinating and implementing cooperation contents. Through this program, research results, sleep medicine standards and scientific solutions will be gradually applied to the training, coaching, care and monitoring of athletes of Ho Chi Minh City's sports teams.
The cooperation content focuses on building a comprehensive coordination program, with a long-term roadmap, towards forming a modern scientific - medical sports ecosystem. The focus includes training and disseminating knowledge about sports sleep hygiene to coaches, professional staff and athletes; deploying research topics on sleep, recovery, injury prevention and optimizing competition performance; and applying multi-sleep evaluation methods combined with sports psychology, towards a personalized training model based on scientific evidence.
In addition, the two units also study the possibility of coordinating to develop a sports medicine vocational training program for athletes after finishing their competitive careers, as well as gradually implementing the project to establish a Sports Sleep Medicine Branch under the Vietnam Sleep Medicine Association.
Immediately after the signing ceremony, a specialized scientific conference "Sleep Medicine and its Importance in Physical and Sports Activities" was held, with presentations focusing on analyzing the role of sleep in recovery, physiological adaptation, injury prevention and impact on athlete performance.
The event is considered an important milestone, showing Ho Chi Minh City's determination to pioneer the connection of modern biomedical science with sports training practice, gradually standardizing athlete training and towards the goal of sustainable sports development, approaching international standards.
