Chiang Mai University

Chiang Mai has active, ongoing NIH funded collaboration with UHM researchers. Over the past four years 2 exchange students from UHM have conducted research on Penicillium marneffei and MRI/MRS among drug abusers in Chiang Mai. The University of Minnesota has had extensive partnership with Chiang Mai University for the past 25 years with exchange programs in medicine, public health, nursing and veterinary medicine. Since 2012, the School of Public Health at UMN has conducted annual training through the Global Health Institutes at Chiang Mai University that has imparted knowledge and skills for U.S., Thai and other regional scholars in addressing emerging infectious diseases at the convergence of human, animal and environmental health. UMN and Chiang Mai University are also part of a World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Veterinary Educational Twinning Project since 2013.

Chulalongkorn University

Chulalongkorn is Thailand’s first institution of higher learning, officially founded in March 1917. Located in Bangkok, Chulalongkorn University is composed of 41 faculties, departments, colleges, academic, research, and service institutes, and academic offices; there are 22,455 undergraduate students, 10,746 Master’s degree students and 2,394 PhD degree students. UMN research studies in Thailand include a study on the effects of anti-retroviral therapy on pulmonary function (Kunisaki, PI; NHLBI; multiple sites, including Chulalongkorn) and a study on the epidemiology of influenza (Osterholm, PI; NIAID; Chulalongkorn). UMN’s education work in Thailand include USAID-funded training grants to improve response to pandemic threats in zoonotic diseases, to build capacity in disease surveillance and detection, and to pilot a pioneering veterinary public health residency program based on the very successful VPH residency at UMN. UMN researchers also conduct NIH-funded studies of pulmonary and cardiovascular complications of HIV with Khon Kaen University and Chulalongkorn University.

Mahidol University

Mahidol has active ongoing NIH funded collaboration with UHM researchers.

Over the past four years 13 exchange students from MU and UHM have conducted research on dengue, chronic kidney disease and melioidosis. UMN in partnership with the University of Ottawa also conducts the Asian Clinical Tropical Medicine course at Mahidol university for learners from Thailand and other countries from Southeast Asia.

Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre has officially operated since November 1989. The Centre provides medical services at its Anonymous Clinic, supports both medical and psychosocial research, and promotes and supports national and international policies related to HIV/AIDS.

Current Fogarty Trainees

Past Fogarty Trainees

• HATAICHANOK CHULJERM
• ALBERT TO
• KRIANGKRAI CHAWANSUNTATI
• SAYAMON HONGJAISEE
• MICHELLE DUMOND
• ELIZABETH LAWS
• MEGAN PECK
• SHAMA VIRANI
• THIDARAT JUPIMAI
• VORAPOT SAPSIRISAVAT
• ARGON STEEL
• CHARLENE TOMAS
• ELEANORE CHUANG
• JAMES KELLEY
• SUMIDTRA PRATHEP
• NITIYA CHOMCHEY
• NITTAYA PHANUPHAK