SECURE Webinar 10: Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Increasing Access to Diagnostics Today

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the gap of diagnostics capacities between countries, and how diagnostic capacities directly lead to response capacity. The pandemic was also a time for countries to review existing resources, technologies, and capabilities to diagnose, and for the world to realize the importance of diagnostics for disease response.

Soawapak Hinjoy

With a background in veterinary medicine, Soawapak Hinjoy graduated with a doctorate in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Currently, she holds the position of Director of the Office of International Cooperation, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health. Enthusiastic about developing collaborations in public health research on zoonotic diseases, and emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases under a conceptual One Health framework, she is active both in Thailand and at the international level.