Monnaphat Jongdeepaisal

DPhil in Clinical Medicine, 2021

I am a social scientist from Thailand. My research interests are primarily in Thailand and Southeast Asian region and include topics such as social development, health policy and systems.
Joining the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) in 2019, my projects focus on minimizing malaria risk among at-risk population in the Greater Mekong Subregion and assessing the feasibility and acceptability of preventive interventions, particularly malaria prophylaxis among forest goers.
My PhD project explores how community health workers in malaria programmes in the region can be sustained towards elimination amidst declining priorities. Specifically, I investigated the prospects for expansion of their roles and integration of programmes beyond malaria in order to strengthen the access to and quality of community-based and primary health care in limited resource settings in Thailand.
Prior to joining MORU and University of Oxford, I have experience with policy research projects at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and at Thailand Development Research Institute, and from internships at the Permanent Mission of to the United Nations and U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Thailand.

Contact: monnaphat.jongdeepaisal@gtc.ox.ac.uk