Dr. Soawapak Hinjoy, Thaïlande, Vice-President of PREZODE

Dr Soawapak Hinjoy, DVM, MSc, MPH, is the Director of the Office of International Cooperation, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health of Thailand. She serves also on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the School of Global Health in the Faculty of Medicine of Chulalongkorn University, as an academic advisor of the Field Epidemiology Training Program, as a member of the committee on Centers of Rabies Control and Prevention in Thailand, and of the local committee of International Health Regulation. She has been a speaker in various international programs.

Previously, Dr Soawapak Hinjoy was the Chief of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Section, Division of Epidemiology, after having held the position of principal investigator on the One Health Phase II Project.

She is enthusiastic about developing collaborations in public health research on zoonotic diseases, emerging and re-emerging infectious under a conceptual One Health concept in Thailand and at the international level. She also serves as national coordinator of ASEAN Health Cluster 2 and MBDS network and chief of Thailand GHSA coordinating unit, developing effective public health control and prevention strategies with a perspective of global health security.

A Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Dr Soawapak Hinjoy holds a Doctorate in Public Health (Epidemiology) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also holds a Master of Public Health from Tulane University and a Master of Science (Veterinary Public Health) from Chulalongkorn University.