Position: Associate Professor

Workplace/address/contact details: 

          Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University,

          Khon Kaen 40002 THAILAND.

          E-mail :  apiporn@kku.ac.th

Education:

          B.Sc. (Biology), Khon Kaen University, Thailand

          Ph.D. (Parasitology), Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Major/ expertise:

          Medical parasitology and malacology

          Spatial epidemiology and modelling 

          Health geographic information system

          Climate-sensitive infectious diseases

Current research projects:

          National Projects

                    – Application of Deep Learning and Machine Learning to study biodiversity, ecology, and population genetics of Culicoides biting midges in Thailand: Relationships between climate change, distribution, and transmission of medical parasitic infections

                    – Integration of spatial decision support system to prevent and control of opisthorchiasis and neglected tropical diseases in Thailand

                    – A Bayesian geostatistical approach to modeling soil transmitted helminths infections in Thailand under projected climate warming

                    International Projects

                    – e-ASIA-NHMRC Eliminating the major Helminth Neglected Tropical Diseases from the Lower Mekong Basin

                    – e-ASIA Joint Research Program: Impact of Climate Change on the Potential Increase of Opisthorchis viverrini and Opisthorchis felineus Transmission in Thailand, Lao PDR and Russia

Collaboration network:

          1) Prof. Archie C.A. Clements, PhD. Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

E-mail: a.clements@qub.ac.uk

          2) Prof.Darren Gray, PhD. Program Director Global Health & Tropical Medicine

QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Australia

E-mail: darren.Gray@QIMRBerghofer.edu.au

          3) Dr.Kinley Wangdi, PhD. NHMRC Healthy Environments and Lives (HEAL) Global Research Centre University of Canberra Health Research Institute, Australia

E-mail: Kinley.Wangdi@canberra.edu.au

          3) Dr.Matthew Kelly, PhD. Department of Global Health Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

E-mail: matthew.kelly@anu.edu.au

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3722-1427

Publication on PubMed link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=apiporn+suwannatrai