The Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, organized the Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting 2025 (JITMM2025) under the theme “Building Bridges for Sustainable Health in a Dividing World.” The meeting was held in collaboration with Mahidol University, the Department of Disease Control under the Ministry of Public Health, the Mahidol–Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), and the SEAMEO TROPMED Network. The conference featured a broad range of research and discussions on major topics in tropical medicine and public health, including NTDs, emerging infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, AMR, One Health, vaccine and diagnostic innovation, health policy and equity, digital health, AI and Big Data, and the health impacts of climate change.
At the opening ceremony on 2 December 2025, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Weerapong Phumratanaprapin, Dean of the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, and Chair of the Organizing Committee, presided over the event. The conference welcomed two keynote speakers: Dr. Hani Kim, Executive Director from the RIGHT Foundation, South Korea, and Prof. Zbynek Bozdech from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, who delivered talks on regional funder collaboration and malaria drug resistance. More than 600 participants from 34 countries joined the meeting, held from 2–4 December 2025 at the Eastin Grand Hotel Phayathai, Bangkok. The conference provided a venue for sharing knowledge, building research networks, driving innovation, and advancing collaborative solutions to global health challenges.
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