Centre of Collaboration
 
Centre of Collaboration
 
      SEAMEO Regional Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network (SEAMEO TROPMED)
      SEAMEO TROPMED Regional Centre for Tropical Medicine (SEAMEO TROPMED Thailand)
      WHO Collaborating Centre for Clinical Management of Malaria
      WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Management for Disease Vector Control in Sustainable Development (WHO CC)
      Mahidol - Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU)
 
 
 
     
  SEAMEO Regional Tropical Medicine and Public Health Network (SEAMEO TROPMED)
    SEAMEO TROPMED Network is a regional cooperation network established in 1966 for education, training and research in tropical medicine and public health under the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education. The Network serves as a focal point in higher education and research in tropical medicine and public health. The Network operates through four Regional Centres affiliated with academic and research institutions which provide the physical facilities, faculty and technical support staff in respective Member Countries. The four Regional Centres are in Indonesia :, Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand.  
       
   
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  SEAMEO TROPMED Regional Centre for Tropical Medicine (SEAMEO TROPMED Thailand)
    The SEAMEO TROPMED Thailand, hosted by the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, offers training on endemic tropical diseases, parasitology, community and preventive medicine. It also conducts research on alternative control measures of diseases and the promotion of lifestyles, including trials of new chemotherapeutic compounds and new vaccines. It provides medical care to patients suffering from tropical diseases as well as academic services for laboratory diagnosis of tropical diseases. (more detail)  
       
   
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  WHO Collaborating Centre for Clinical Management of Malaria
    World Health Organization in collaboration with Ministry of Public Health and Thai Government has designated the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Clinical Management of Malaria since 1996 and redesigned for every 4 years (more detail)  
       
   
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  WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Management for Disease Vector Control in Sustainable Development
    The Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University has collaborated with WHO/FAO/UNEP/ UNCHS/PEEM, SEAMEO TROPMED and the Ministry of Education. The collaboration has been performed for the field of environmental management and for the control of vectors associated with water resource development projects.  
       
   
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  Mahidol - Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU)
    The MORU supported by the Wellcome Trust began in 1979 as a research collaboration between the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University and the University of Oxford. The main research interests are the epidemiology, diagnosis, pathophysiology and treatment of malaria, scrub typhus, melioidosis, leptospirosis and other tropical infections which impose a substantial disease burden on rural populations throughout this populous region. The study sites/units are Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) (link : http://www.shoklo-unit.com/About/About_01.htm) in Maesod and Loas Project, Ubon Ratchathani (melioidosis and cryptococcal meningitis), Udon Thani (scrub typhus and leptospirosis), Mae Sod Hospital (malaria and microbiological support for SMRU), Chittagong Medical College in Bangladesh (severe malaria), and Rourkela in India (severe malaria). MORU also supervise severe malaria clinical trial sites in Myanmar.  
       
   
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Last updated: October 16, 2009
 
 
 
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