Staffs from our faculty produce more than 250 publications per year which have a significant impact on the research, community and global health. Our Faculty has Diagnostic Reference Laboratory highly specialized tools for quick diagnosis offering diagnostic test of tropical disease for public service. The Faculty of Tropical Medicine has an epidemiology of malaria and parasite research center in Suang Phung district, Ratchaburi province which name is given by Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana as “Rajanakaridra Disease Center” and another research center located in Kanchanaburi province “Tropical diseases research center” Both centers are used as training center, seminar and field research in community.
The Faculty conducts both basis and applied research ranging from diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccines development and drug discovery.Graduates will be able to conduct and to do research with high potential in tropical diseases and health science persuading their careers as lecturers or researchers in government/public institution.
The Faculty is located in the central of Bangkok near Victory monument where is convenient in transportation by Bangkok Transport System (BTS).
Educational programs at the Faculty provide a conducive environment to prepare students, who are globally competent, guided by ethics, equipped with an entrepreneurial outlook, and who have acquired high achievement and motivation while honing their analytical and collaborative skills and life-long learning in solving issues related to tropical diseases.
We aspire to be a world-class tropical medicine research institute, which beneficially impacts upon society, as stated by His Royal Highness Prince Mahidol of Songkla:
“True success is not in the learning but in its application to the benefit of mankind”.