BIOPHICS is the centre of excellence for biomedical and public health informatics with its primary goal to be the resources for both “teaching and reaching” the public with integrity and quality health informatics. The centre has set its mission not only to serve Thailand needs but also to reach other countries, especially those in the same tropical environment. It is also planned to bridge and network with other existing centres for knowledge-based and health informatics for global health. The centre emphasizes sharing, dissemination and uses of basic and applied aspects of informatics in health sciences field. The centre activities focus on 3 areas: training, research and services by employing the cutting edge technology in providing supports and sharing experiences for collaborative network and organizations, governmental and private entities, for the advancement of biomedical and clinical research as well as public health at large.

Food-borne parasitic zoonoses (FBPZ) are endemic in tropical and subtropical developing countries, especially in Asia, mainly due to inadequately cooked local food and poor sanitary conditions. The Department of Helminthology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, has been engaged in diagnosis for FBPZ for long years. However, along with the globalization, the amount of food trading and the number of travelers has been increasing year after year, and the risk of FBPZ has been expanding and the requirement for the institution where accurate diagnoses for those diseases with adequate reference services are increasing. Under such circumstance, the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University has decided to establish the Centre of Excellence for Food-Borne Parasitic Zoonoses (COE-FBPZ) in the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University. Although this center will be initially established by strengthening the functions of the Department of Helminthology, the functions of this centre will be expanded in future to the areas of protozoan and bacterial infections transmitted by food and water.

Faculty of Tropical Medicine is part of the Southeast Asia Influenza Clinical Research Network [http://www.seaclinicalresearch.org/]. It is a multi-lateral, collaborative partnership of hospitals and institutions in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietman, United Kingdom, and United States. Faculty of Tropical Medicine plays a major role in Phase I clinical trail of future anti-influenza drugs and also participate in Phase IV Trial to Evaluate Safety and Tolerability of Long Term Influenza Prophylaxis with Inhaled Zanamivir or Oral Oseltamivir. The mission of the Southeast Asia Influenza Clinical Research Network (Network) is to advance the scientific knowledge and management of human influenza through integrated, collaborative clinical research.

The TDC was established in 2007. Its objectives to set up a laboratory unit capable to investigate dengue virus infection in both human and mosquito vector and to support the dengue research and diagnostic service.

The Vaccine Trial Centre (VTC) is a clinical research centre, set up in the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, in 1984. The centre became fully operational in the third quarter of 1986 and the first volunteer was admitted on November 3rd 1986. The VTC is the first and only clinical trial facility in Thailand, where the efficacy of newly developed vaccines against different infectious diseases is evaluated in human volunteers. Evaluations of new vaccines are conducted in terms of reactogenicity, immunogenicity, and protective efficacy against infectious diseases prevalent in the area. The three disease groups initially identified for vaccine trial studies are diarrheae diseases, malaria, and viral infections (including HIV).