Thanyawee Puthanakit

Thanyawee Puthanakit is a Professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, and Director of the Center of Excellence for Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She is a pediatric infectious disease specialist by training. She also earned a Master of Health Science in Clinical Investigation and a Certificate in Vaccine Science and Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition, she attended the Advanced Course of Vaccinology, co-organized by Foundation Mérieux and the University of Geneva.

She has more than 20 years of clinical experience in pediatric infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries. She has extensive expertise in the clinical development of vaccines for children and adolescents, including HPV, PCVs, Tdap, and Japanese encephalitis vaccines. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led the clinical development program of the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine at the Clinical Research Center (CRC), Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. She has also served as a member of the expert committee for the Thai Ministry of Public Health on measles and congenital rubella programs.