Dr. Kraichat Tantrakarnapa Associate Professor

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Background

Associate Professor of Social and Environmental Medicine Dr Kraichat Tantrakarnapa is involved in both teaching and research. He is responsible for students from the Diploma, MSc, and PhD courses at the Bangkok School of Tropical Medicine and is the Principal Investigator on two current research projects. These include: 1) the Green House Gas Inventory for Industrial Process and Products Use (IPPU) for Thailand sponsored by ONEP (Office of National Environmental Policy and Planning); 2) The Haze free Thailand project funded by Thailand Research Office, where he works with local colleagues from seven Thai Universities as part of the Research University Network (RUN). He has research experience with universities located abroad having obtained a scholarship with Thai-Franco funding in 2014-2015 as well as having strong connections to International agencies such as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), various Thai governmental organizations and state enterprises. He also has a role in research work among the three countries that make up the so-called Trilateral Scientific Meeting (Thailand-Indonesia-France).

Affiliations

Department of Social and Environmental Medicine
Unit of Environmental Health and Social Impact Assessment

Research

Dr.Kraichat Tantrakarnapa’s current Thai Research Fund project “Free Haze Thailand” is a response to the growing problem of haze throughout Thailand, particularly in the north where haze episodes are now regularly reported. The project, a collaboration between numerous universities and governmental organization in Thailand, has the aim of identifying the primary factors influencing haze and understanding its health impacts.

Qualifications

2008 Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety in the Workplace ITC-ILO and Torino University, Italy
2003 Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering) Suranaree University of Technology
1990 M.Sc. (Technology of Environmental Management) Mahidol University, Thailand
1985 B.S. (Statistics) Chiangmai University, Thailand

Research Areas

  • Environmental Health
  • Applications of Modelling for Environmental Health Management
  • Climate Change

Publications

Selected publications by Dr Kraichat Tantrakarnapa are listed below. The full list can be seen on Google scholar.

Selected Publications

Ambient and PM concentrations at different high traffic-related street configurations in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sahanavin N, Tantrakarnapa K, Prueksasit T.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2016 May;47(3):528-35.

Development Model of Oxide of Nitrogen Concentration and Land Use Characteristics in Bangkok Area.
Sillaparassamee R, Tantrakarnapa K, Chinwetkitvanich S.
EnvironmentAsia 9(2) (2016) 111-117.

Environmental factors and public health policy associated with human and rodent infection by leptospirosis: a land cover-based study in Nan province, Thailand.
Della Rossa P, Tantrakarnapa K, Sutdan D, Kasetsinsombat K, Cosson JF, Supputamongkol Y, Chaisiri K, Tran A, Supputamongkol S, Binot A, Lajaunie C, Morand S.
Epidemiol Infect. 2015 Nov 26:1-13

Occurrence and efficacy of bisphenol A (BPA) treatment in selected municipal wastewater treatment plants, Bangkok, Thailand
Pookpoosa I, Jindal R, Morknoy D, Tantrakarnapa K.
Water Sci Technol. 2015;72(3):463-71.

Occurrence of Bisphenol A in Some Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants’ Effluents in Bangkok Region.
Pookpoosa I, Jindal R, Morknoy D, Tantrakarnapa K.
Int'l Journal of Advances in Agricultural & Environmental Engg. (IJAAEE) Vol. 1, Issue 1(2014) ISSN 2349-1523 EISSN 2349-1531

Suitable Types and Constituent Ratios for Clay-Pot Water Filters to Improve the Physical and Bacteriological Quality of Drinking Water
Wongsakoonkan W, Prechthai T, Tantrakarnapa K.
Environment Asia. 2014; 7(2). 117-23.