Governments worldwide are facing the challenge of balancing limited resources and the increasing need for improving the healthcare of their population. Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC) to ensure equitable access to essential health services doubles the challenge for governments, especially in resource-limited settings. As a result, health priori

The Disease Control Department is seeking to ease public fears over a disease found in Thailand with HIV-like symptoms, saying it is not contagious.The disease, identified by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and reported in the New England Journal of Medicine last Thursday, has been found

(Reuters) – Britain launched a public consultation on Monday to ask whether controversial “three-parent” fertility treatments should be available to families hoping to avoid passing on incurable diseases.The potential treatments, currently only at research stage in laboratories in Britain and the Un

This virtual workshop was provided for public health professionals, researchers, and policy makers from Ghana, Malawi, and Tanzania. The course covered topics such as political economy of vaccinology, vaccine policy and distribution, and the science of vaccines, with a specific focus on the COVID-19 pandemic and COVID-19 vaccines.

แนวคิดเรื่องปัจจัยทางสังคมที่มีอิทธิพลต่อสุขภาพ (Social determinants of health) และกลยุทธการสร้างเสริมสุขภาพตามกฎบัตรออตตาวา (The Ottawa Charter) ทำให้หลายประเทศหันมาให้ความสำคัญกับผลกระทบจากนโยบายของรัฐที่มีต่อสุขภาพของประชาชน สำหรับประเทศไทย ประเด็นเหล่านี้ได้ถูกนำมาพิจารณาในกระบวนการปฏิรูประบ

Executive Summary The 4th Regional Workshop on Advanced Economic Evaluation was held on 23–25 February 2026 at Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research (JIPMER) in Puducherry, India. The workshop was co-organized by JIPMER, the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, N

Abstract During the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of the infodemic and vaccine hesitancy posed a significant challenge to adequate vaccine uptake. In response, conversational AI services such as chatbots have become an increasingly popular tool in the field of health ser-vice delivery and comm

Montarat Thavorncharoensap BSc, PhD*,** * Social and Administrative Pharmacy Excellence Research (SAPER) Unit, Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand ** Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thaila

(Reuters) – An international health panel has recommended for the first time that all HIV patients be treated with antiretroviral drugs, even when the virus’s impact on their immune system is shown to be small.The nonprofit International Antiviral Society-USA cited new evidence that untreated infect