The Global Health Institute – Thailand (GHIT) is an annual program that provides intensive training and specialized short courses to strengthen essential One Health skills and competencies. Each year, the program is complemented by a research conference to enhance networking, collaboration, and interdisciplinary engagement. Hosted at Chiang Mai University since 2012, GHIT-2016 marked the fourth offering of the program. It was designed to foster collective action in support of public health, food security, and ecosystem health.
GHIT-2016 also offered participants the opportunity to develop short collaborative research proposals and compete for seed funding, which was awarded during the research conference at the end of the first week.
Program Structure
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Pre-Conference Short Courses
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Global Health Leadership at the Convergence of Animal, Human, and Environmental Health: Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance
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Participatory Epidemiology Approach to One Health – EcoHealth (Introduction)
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Research Conference
2nd Global Health Conference of Researchers in Emerging Diseases at the Convergence of Animal, Human, and Environmental Health-
Emerging and re-emerging diseases
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Antimicrobial resistance
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Application of risk analysis
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Epidemiological tools and applications
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Food safety and hygiene
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Post-Conference Short Courses
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Participatory Epidemiology Approach to One Health – EcoHealth 2 (Community-based)
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Food Safety Risk Analysis: From Research to Policy
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Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Spatial Analysis for Disease Outbreak Investigation
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A total of 68 participants attended the training courses, and 48 participants took part in the research conference.