Assoc. Prof. Pratap Singhasivanon Dean

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Background

Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon became Dean of the Faculty in 2016. He previously held this position from 2004 to 2012. Alongside this role he is also the Secretary General and Coordinator of the SEAMEO TROPMED Network and a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Tropical Hygiene.

He is currently Work Package leader for the Southeast Asia component of the DENFREE project (Dengue Research Framework for Resisting Epidemics in Europe) collaborating with researchers from Cambodia and France. He has much experience in cooperative international research and capacity building, including the recently completed TRANSEPI project which looked at the comparative epidemiology of P. falciparum and P. vivax transmission in Papua New Guinea, Thailand, and Brazil.

Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon’s primary research area is malaria epidemiology, but he has an interest in many of the other vector-borne diseases that affect populations in Southeast Asia.

Affiliations

Department of Tropical Hygiene
SEAMEO TROPMED Network
Administrative Board

Research

Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon’s current research, as part of the EU funded DENFREE project, involves the collection of retrospective and prospective data concerning dengue in Thailand and Cambodia. The project aims to use this data to identify key factors determining dengue transmission, the outcome of infection and the spread of epidemics.

Between 2011 and 2015, he was the Thailand PI on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded project ‘Long-term Continuous Culture of Plasmodium vivax Blood Stages’. This project, involving research institutions in the USA, Australia and Japan as well as Thailand, aimed to establish an easy protocol for the continuous culture of P.vivax blood-stage parasites producing infective gametocytes.

The TRANSEPI project, for which Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon’s was also the Thailand PI, set out to determine the dynamics of malaria transmission stages in hosts and vectors in three non-African settings (Brazil, Papua New Guinea, and Thailand) and to determine bottlenecks and their impact on transmission and parasite population diversity.

In his role as Secretary General and Coordinator of the SEAMEO TROPMED Network, Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon has supported the research of other Southeast Asian academics through the organization of training, publishing of The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health and providing scholarships.

Qualifications

1991 Public Health PhD University of Michigan, USA
1985 Master of Public Health Harvard University, USA
1982 Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Diploma Mahidol University, Thailand
1980 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery Kasturba Medical College, India

Research Areas

  • Epidemiology of tropical diseases
  • Application of GIS in monitoring multi-drug resistant malaria

Publications

Dr. Pratap Singhasivanon has a total of 193 publications. The full list can be seen here

Selected Publications

Village malaria worker performance key to the elimination of artemisinin-resistant malaria: a Western Cambodia health system assessment.
Canavati SE, Lawpoolsri S, Quintero CE, Nguon C, Ly P, Pukrittayakamee S, Sintasath D, Singhasivanon P, Peeters Grietens K, Whittaker MA.
Malar J. 2016 May 20;15(1):282
DOI: 10.1186/s12936-016-1322-6

Numerical Distributions of Parasite Densities During Asymptomatic Malaria.
Imwong M, Stepniewska K, Tripura R, Peto TJ, Lwin KM, Vihokhern B, Wongsaen K, von Seidlein L, Dhorda M, Snounou G, Keereecharoen L, Singhasivanon P,Sirithiranont P, Chalk J, Nguon C, Day NP, Nosten F, Dondorp A, White NJ.
J Infect Dis. 2016 Apr 15;213(8):1322-9
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv596

Advantages of using voiced questionnaire and image capture application for data collection from a minority group in rural areas along the Thailand-Myanmar border
Monyarit S, Pan-ngum W, Lawpoolsri S, Yimsamran S, Pongnumkul S, Kaewkungwal J, Singhasivanon P.
Inform Prim Care. 2014;21(4):179-88.
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v21i4.84

Emergence of artemisinin-resistant malaria on the western border of Thailand: a longitudinal study.
Phyo, A.P., Nkhoma, S., Stepniewska, K., Ashley, E.A., Nair, S., McGready, R., ler Moo, C., Al-Saai, S., Dondorp, A.M., Lwin, K.M., Singhasivanon, P., Day, N.P., White, N.J., Anderson, T.J., Nosten, F.
The Lancet. 2012 May 26;379(9830):1960-6
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60484-X

Directly observed therapy with primaquine to reduce the recurrence rate of plasmodium vivax infection along the Thai-Myanmar border
Maneeboonyang, W. ,Lawpoolsri, S.,Puangsa-Art, S.,Yimsamran, S.,Thanyavanich, N.,Wuthisen, P.,Prommongkol, S.,Chaimongkul, W.,Rukmanee, P.,Rukmanee, N.,Chavez, I.F.,Buchachart, K.,Krudsood, S.,Singhasivanon, P.
Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. 2011 42 (1) , pp. 9-18.