Thailand: Creating Public Health Linkages

Like other countries, Thailand is grappling with emerging infectious disease outbreaks, toxicologic and environmental safety problems, and natural disasters of increasing frequency and severity. Addressing these challenges requires collaboration and coordination among disease prevention, medical, and laboratory functions and services. Thailand has no single comprehensive NPHI that encompasses all of these functions, and establishment of such as institute is unlikely in the near future. Thailand’s National Institute of Health (NIH) therefore aims to establish a Consortium of National Public Health Organizations to facilitate and ensure timely, coordinated, and science-based management of public health challenges and emergencies.

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