The Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, provides postgraduate courses leading to M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Tropical Medicine. Specialization is focusing on Social Medicine, Environmental Health, and Environmental Toxicology.

The research activities involve both laboratory and field investigations. Efforts are concentrated on health impacts and climate change. environmental and health impacts of industrial development. Through a strong collaboration with Osaka University in Japan, the staff of the Department has worked at the Center of Excellence for Antibody Research, which in 2011 received a U.S. patent for 20 clones of human monoclonal antibodies capable of neutralizing all four serotypes of the dengue virus.

The Department offers various kinds of laboratory investigation for example, circum-oval precipitin test for blood fluke infection, rapid detection of MDR-TB from clinical and environmental samples using molecular techniques. The Department established the Southeast Asian Center for Medical Malacology to provide a training course and is a home of “Mollusk Museum” where shell specimens of various medically important snail hosts are collected. This museum is considered one of the perfect mollusk museums in the region. The Department is also the Center for Health Impact Assessment Study and has a role in providing training course on environmental and health impact assessment (EHIA) and conducting EHIA projects of industrial development.  In 2011, a total of 9 projects of EHIA were carried out in Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate, Rayong Province. On occasion, the Department staff also performed malacological investigation as a part of EHIA for the Nam Theun-2 Hydroelectric Project in Lao PDR. The team was commissioned by the Lao PDR Government and the Pasteur Institute, based in France.

In 2012,  A Formal Course on Medical Malacology for Southeast Asian Countries will be organized by the Southeast Asian Center for Medical Malacology on July, 9 -18. Moreover, a national training course on Environmental and Health Impact Assessment (EHIA) will be provided by the Center for Health Impact Assessment Study on August, 6 -10.