Pairoj Saonuam

Dr Pairoj Saonuam is a medical doctor with Thai Board Certificate in Preventive Medicine and a PhD in Community Medicine. He is now the Deputy CEO, Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth), Bangkok, Thailand.  One of his main responsibility is NCD Prevention and Control through physical activity promotion, healthy food promotion, alcohol control, tobacco control and reducing air pollution.

Dr Pairoj Saonuam emphasizes on making a strong linkage and productive strategies to seek for the collaboration and raise awareness through the social determinants or the boundaries beyond the health sectors lying under the problems. This also requires the integration of 3 distinguished aspects to drive and solve health problems namely; Knowledge and Research, Policy and Law Enforcement, and Social Mobilization including social marketing.

Dr Pairoj Saonuam with the great experiences in health promotion over a decade, also devotes his time for technical development by publishing the research articles, giving the lecture as invited lecture in many universities, Speaking in different academic conferences, and providing consultation on Monitoring and Evaluation.