Doctor Supamit Chunsuttiwat
Senior Medical Officer - Division of General Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
Supamit Chunsuttiwat is a Senior Medical Officer in Preventive Medicine, at the Department of Disease Control of Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. Currently, he supervises national immunization and emerging infectious disease control programs and is also part of the Secretariat of the National Vaccine Committee that drives policy for national capacity in vaccine development, production, quality control and utilization.
Doctor Chunsuttiwat had training in medicine, field epidemiology and public health. Since 1985, he has been working on policy and strategy development, the coordination of the Thai national immunization program and on control programs for several communicable diseases including dengue, diarrheal diseases, zoonotic diseases and emerging infectious. Previously he also served on the Steering Committee on Dengue and other Flavivirus Vaccine Development.
For the national immunization program, he has had a leading role in the introduction of several new vaccines including hepatitis B, Japanese encephalitis, measles-mumps-rubella, combined DTP-HB and influenza. He led the coordination of the national poliomyelitis eradication campaign for a number of years. Since 1994, Doctor Chunsuttiwat has been involved in the development and coordination of policy and strategies for preparedness and response to emerging infectious diseases that include plague, Nipah encephalitis, SARS, avian influenza and pandemic influenza.
Doctor Chunsuttiwat served from 2003 until 2010 WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts, SAGE, on Immunization.
Last updated: 1 September 2010