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Global Health Institute - Thailand 2016
15-26 February 2016

Global Health Institute-Thailand (GHIT) is an annual activity involving intensive training and comprehensive short courses to encourage application of OneHealth essential skills and competencies. A researcher conference was held during the GHIT to complement the training and enhance networking and collaboration. Among One Health advocates at Chiang Mai University, the GHIT offered a wonderful opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration for addressing grand challenges at the interfaces of human health, animal health and the environment. The Global Health Institute was started at Chiang Mai University since 2012. and GHIT-2016 was the fourth offering of this program. The program was designed to foster collective action for the benefit of public health, food security and ecosystem health.

GHIT-2016 provided an opportunity for enthusiastic researchers to develop a short collaborative research proposal and compete to win seed funding that will be awarded during the research conference at the end of the first week.

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A 2-week program included:

    Pre-conference short course:
    • Course1: Global Health Leadership at the Convergence at Animal, Human and Environment - Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance
    • Course 2: Participatory Epidemiology Approach to One Health – EcoHealth (Introduction)
    Research conference:
    • “2nd Global Health Conference of Researchers in Emerging Disease at Convergence of Animal, Human and Environmental health”
        • Conference themes:
        • Emerging and re-emerging diseases
        • Antimicrobial resistance
        • Application of risk analysis
        • Epidemiological tools and application
        • Food safety and hygiene
    Post-conference short course:
    • Course 3: Participatory Epidemiology Approach to One Health – EcoHealth 2 (Community-based)
    • Course 4: Food Safety Risk Analysis from Research to Policy
    • Course 5: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Analysis for Disease Outbreak Investigation

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There were 68 participants attended the training courses and 48 participants attended the research conference.