On 25 November 2016, Main Huong Nguyen took part in the poster presentation at the congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie, Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik  (DGPPN) in Berlin and presented relevant research results under the title "Akkulturation und depressiver Schweregrad bei vietnamesischen Migranten der ersten Generation" (eng.: "Acculturation and Depressive Severity among First Generation Vietnamese Migrants". For this, she was awarded the DGPPN poster prize.