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Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, FTM
 
  Faculty & Staff
 
 
Assistant Professor Voranuch L. Wangsuphachart  
Name: Voranuch L. Wangsuphachart
Position: Assistant Professor
Department: Social and Environmental Medicine
E-mail: voranuch.wan@mahidol.ac.th
   
 
Field of expertise   |   Publications   |   Academic Qualification   |   Awards
 
Academic Qualification
2013 Certificate: Companion Modeling. CPWF Chiangmai University, GREASE Network CIRAD-France and KU Thailand
  1999 Certificate: Using burden of disease and cost-effectiveness to define national control priorities and essential packages of care” Lorne, Melbourne, Australia
  1996 Certificate: Occupational Epidemiology, University of Munster, Munster, Germany
  1994 Certificate: Environmental Toxicology, Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
  1992 Certificate: Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines
  1988 Ph.D. (Medical Epidemiology), School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  1984 M.S. (Medical Epidemiology), School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
  1981 M.Sc. (Tropical Medicine), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
  1978 B.Sc. (Microbiology), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
     
Professional Appointments and Awards
  2013 - present Member of the Scientific Committee, SELTA-RPP-France: Soils, Waters, Coastal Zones and Societies facing Risks in Southern and Southeast Asia
  2012 - present Representative from the Faculty of Tropical Medicine to the GREASE International Network for Research and Training
  2012 - present Member of Regional Advisory Board RPP SELTA. Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), France: Responsible for the Asia Pacific Program on Forecasting, Assessing and Mitigating Risks from climate change and health, natural hazards/disasters, emerging and re-emerging diseases, access to water and ecosystems
  2010 - 2014 National Working Group Committee-Mekong Water Dialogues for Integrated Water Resources Management Phase II: Improved livelihood security, human and ecosystem health in the Lower Mekong Region through participatory water governance. In collaboration with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam
  2008 - 2010 National Working Group Committee-Mekong Water Dialogues for Integrated Water Resources Management Phase I: Improved environmental decision-making in the context of water resources governance in the Mekong. In collaboration with International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam
  2006 - present External Expert in Epidemiology and Health for Environmental Engineering and Management, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
  2006 - present Collaborating Researcher. The Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North-South (NCCR N-S) Program, Switzerland
  2006 - 2009 Member of Regional Advisory Board, The Swiss National Center for Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South Program Joint Area of Case Study Southeast Asia
  2006 - 2007 National Expert in Epidemiology and Public Health, Environmental Risk Assessment for the Trans-boundary Risk Assessment Project, The Mekong River Commission, Environment Programme (was selected by the MRCS to be the only one national expert from hundreds of applicants nationwide)
  2005 W.H.O. Temporary Adviser on Excreta and Grey Water Reuse, Guilin, China (Water, Sanitation and Health Programme)
  2004 W.H.O. Temporary Adviser on Research Needs on Water, Sanitation and Health Programme, AIT, Bangkok, Thailand
  2003 W.H.O. Temporary Advisor for WHO Workshop on Environmental Burden of Disease, Geneva, Switzerland
  2001 - present Chief, Environmental Health Unit, Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University
  2000 Lecturer/Trainer on Burden of Disease Study, Dept. of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
  1999 - 2000 Global Health Leadership Fellow, Epidemiology and Burden of Disease Unit, Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy, Evidence and Information for Policy World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (was selected to be 1 of 2 epidemiologists from more than 800 candidates worldwide)
  1994 - 1996 Working Committee on Thai Women Against Tobacco Use Project, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
  1995 IDRC Research Fellow, Alberta Environmental Centre, Vegreville, Alberta, Canada
  1995 National Representative to the Expert Meeting on Environmental Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines (organized by GTZ, Germany)
  1995 W.H.O.-COMSECTemporary Advisor on Environmental Health Impact Assessment (EHIA), Institute of Environmental Epidemiology, Singapore
  1993 Working Committee in Trend Assessment and Diseases Prediction: Epidemiological Study, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
  1993 W.H.O. Temporary Adviser on HIV Infection in Leprosy Patients, Geneva, Switzerland
  1992 Won Nationwide Selection for National Representative to present a Country Report on “The Role of Thai Universities in Combating Health Hazards of Environmental Pollution”
  1989 - 1997 Executive Committee and Coordinator of the Environment and Health Program, National Epidemiology Board of Thailand (NEBT) and Thailand Health Research Institute
  1988 and
1982 - 1984
World Health Organization Fellowship Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  1986 - 1987 Washington State Federation of Business and Professional Women Inc. Award, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. for Outstanding International Woman Student in Washington State
  1985 Pre-doctoral Teaching Assistant IIFellowship, Health Sciences Center, Office of the President, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A
  1986 - 1987 Pre-doctoral Research Associate II Fellowship, School of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology & Nutrition, Department of Human Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A
  1987 - 1988 Pre-doctoral Research Associate II Fellowship, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A
     
 
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