AAAH Steering Committee Members
(As of November, 2009)


    Dr. Suwit Wibulpolprasert is a general practitioner, public health specialist, administrator and policy advisor and advocator. He has extensive experience in the areas of human resources for health; health economics and health care financing; international trade and health; health promotion; health information; disease surveillance and control and pharmaceuticals. He has published more than 100 papers, reports and books locally and internationally.
    During the past ten years, Dr. Suwit has been representing Thailand in many international health forums including the World Health Assembly. He has served as the Vice Chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, Chair the Board of the Health Metrics Network and the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance Network, Chair of the Program Coordinating Board, UNAIDS, and the President of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety.
    At present, he chairs the Steering Committee of the Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health, the Asian Partnership on Avian Influenza Research and the Program and Policy Committee of the Board of the Global Health Workforce Alliance.
    Dr. Suwit served as Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Thai Ministry of Public Health in 2000-2003 and a Senior Advisor in Health Economics in 2003-2006. Currently, he serves at the highest rank of government official (PC11) as a Senior Advisor on Disease Control. He is also responsible for health policy and international health work of the ministry.

    Education Background

    Dr. Junhua ZHANG graduated from Tongji Medical College, the University of Huazhong Science and Technology in June 1989. He was awarded the master degree in public health by the University of Philippine Manila (in July 1997) and the Doctor Degree of Philosophy by the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Sydney (in April 2005).

    Employment History

    Dr. Junhua ZHANG had been working (July 1989-1993) at the Department of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Environmental Health and Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine (namely Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control). Then he worked at the Department of Endemic Disease Control, the Ministry of Health, in charge of the World Bank Loan Project: Infectious Disease Control Project management for two years (January 1994-June 1995). He had been working at the Foreign Loan Office, the Ministry of Health from July 1997 to June 2000, as senior project officer, division director. From July 2000 to June 2004, he was studying as PhD student at the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Sydney. His study was on injury prevention and control, especially road traffic injury prevention in China. After the submission of his PhD thesis, he was employed by the George Institute as senior research fellow, working on the China Seat Belt Intervention project (July 2004-June 2005). Since July 2005, Dr. Junhua Zhang has been working at the Health Human Resources Development Center, the Ministry of Health. As the assistant director-general, he is responsible for the supervision to three research divisions, international cooperation division, information technology division, legal affairs division.

    Completed and on-going study projects

    1. Human Resources for Health in China: Current Situation, Problems and Strategies.
    2. Investigation of Human Resources for Health in China
    3. The Project for Building the China Expert Database of National Public Health Emergency Rapid Response
    4. The Projects for the AIDS Expert Database Development, and Expert Database of Medical Specialists.
    5. China Seatbelt Study: Focus Group (Oct, 2004-April, 2005)
    6. China Drinking and Driving Intervention Study sponsored by GRSP (2006-2009).
    7. The influence of the NRCMS implementation on accessibility of health care service in central and western rural China (2007-2008), funding from Italian Cooperation and Development Unit, the Italian Embassy in Beijing.
    8. Zhang Junhua, Mark Stevenson , Yu Xuequn, Rebecca Ivers, Robyn Norton, Zhou Ying. Qualitative Research on Seatbelt Use among Drivers and Passengers (2007).
    9. The principal translator (from English to Chinese), Junhua Zhang. WHO 2006 World Health Report: Working Together for Health (Published in 2006).
    10. The principal translator (from English to Chinese), Junhua Zhang etc. The Joint Learning Initiative. Human Resources for Health: Overcome the crisis. The People’s Health Press. October,2007. ISBN 978-7-117-09301-9.
    11. Junhua Zhang, Robyn Norton, KC Tang etc. Motorcycle ownership and injury in China. Injury Control and Safety Promotion 2004, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 159-163
    12. Junhua Zhang,Jiatong Zhuo, Naying Chen, Mingpu Xuan. Study on the helmet use of motorcyclists in Guangxi. The Journal of China Disease Control, 2004, 8(6):512-515.

    21st Fl, UBCII Building 591 Sukhumvit 33,
    Wattana BKK 10110 Thailand
    EDUCATION:
    MBBS (Institute of Medicine(I), Rangoon) 1973
    DP&TM (Institute of Medicine (I), Rangoon) 1979
    MPH (Institute of Public Health, University of
    the Philippines Systems) 1982
    Dr PH (Johns Hopkins University, School of
    Hygiene and Public Health) 1991
    THESIS DONE:
    ? Construction and Comparison of Abridged Life Table of Extended Rangoon Population of 1963 and 1974, DP&TM Dissertation, Rangoon, Myanmar
    ? The Barangay Health Workers Training Programme, MPH thesis in Manila, Philippines
    ? Stratification of Malarious Areas in Union of Myanmar, Dr.P.H. thesis, USA

    EXPERIENCE :

    INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION LEVEL EXPERIENCE
    13 Feb 2006 – present Director, Programme Management, South-East Asia Regional Office, WHO, New Delhi, India
    Principal Adviser to the Regional Director on policy, technical programmes and management matters. Assisting the Regional Director in the establishment of an effective framework for regional policy, overall programme formulation and implementation, and high-level managerial functions.
    Mar 2004 – Feb 2006 Chief, Internal Review and Technical Assessment, Regional Director’s Office, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi
    Feb 2002 – Feb 2004 Coordinator, Regional Director’s Office & Liaison with Country Offices, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi
    Apr 2000 – Jan 2002 Regional Adviser, Evidence for Health Policy, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi
    Aug 1994 – Mar 2000 Regional Adviser, Research Policy and Cooperation, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi

    PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT AND FIELD EXPERIENCE
    1992-1994 Chief, International Health Division, Minister’s Office, Ministry of Health, Myanmar
    1991-1992 Health Systems Research (HSR) Unit In-charge, Department of Health, Ministry of Health, Myanmar
    1981-1991 Epidemiologist/Malariologist, Vector-borne Diseases Control (VBDC) Programme, Department of Health, Ministry of Health, Myanmar


    TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    1979-1981 Faculty, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Institute of Medicine (I), Department of Health Manpower, Ministry of Health, Myanmar
    1976-1979 Faculty, Department of Anatomy, Institute of Medicine (I), Department of Health Manpower, Ministry of Health, Myanmar


    PRIVATE CLINICAL PRACTICE

    1974-1988
    General Practitioner, running own clinic.

    Employed by WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO) since December 2000, Dr. Ezekiel Nukuro currently serves as WPRO’s Regional Adviser in HRH since May 2003. His main responsibilities include, among others: regional HRH programme development, monitoring, evaluation and reporting; mobilization of resources to support HRH programmes in the region; technical support for the enhancement of the quality and standards of health professional education and training, including medical education; planning and management of the WHO Fellowships programme in the region; advocate for, and facilitate partnerships /networks and coordinated approach in strengthening HRH capacity of Member States; and providing technical support in aspects of HRH to Member States where possible.

    After graduating from the Fiji School of Medicine in 1981, Dr. Nukuro worked at the Solomon Islands Government’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services as a physician and later as the Director of Health services in two remote provinces of the country. After obtaining his Masters degree in Community Health in UK in 1987, he served as Chief Medical Officer, Public Health and was promoted to the post of Undersecretary Health Improvement in the MOH from 1989 to July 1997. He then joined UNICEF (Pacific Office) to work on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and child protection programmes in the Pacific Island countries. Right before joining WHO, he served as the adviser on advocacy, information and communication for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) population and reproductive health programmes.

    Education
    - B.A in Economic, National Economic College, Hanoi, Vietnam,
    - Master Public Health on Health System Development, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
    - Training course on Leadership and Management Skill sponsored by WHO, Learning Center of WHO’s Office for Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines, for 5 months from May 2000 to March 2001.
    - Training course on The impact of WTO on Health Sector, Bangkok, Thailand, 2 weeks on May, 2004
    - Training course on Health Care Development: A critical Approach, Sweden, 21 April to 20 May, 2006

    Current Position
         Principal Expert on Human Resource Development, Manpower and Organization Department, Ministry of Health Vietnam

    Responsibility
         Responsible for Human Resource Development (HRD) at Central level:
    - Involving to formulate policies on HRD
    - Collecting, analyzing and reporting data on HR
    - Making plan for different training courses for health workers at different level of health system.
    - Supervision and supporting lower level in implementing Government’s policies on HRH
    - Involving in Health Sector Reform Project ( sponsored by SIDA); Human Resource for health development ( sponsored by WHO) and other projects related to HRH

     

     

     

     


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