Burin Suraaroonsamrit

Dr. Burin Suraaroonsamrit is a senior academic consultant in the Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health. He first start his career as a clinician with a question of how to strengthen the psychosocial service into community system. Therefore, his main passion is a community mental health as well as the crisis mental health system for the vulnerable group. He has participated in scaling up the crisis mental health service known as the MCATT team (mental health assessment and treatment team) to work collaboratively with community network in crisis and disaster from response to recovery. Later his work focused more on the solution on mental health care after covid-19 crisis. Currently, he is a director of Bureau of Mental Health Academic Affairs.