Prof Sureeporn Punpuing

Sureeporn Punpuing is a Director, and an Associate Professor of the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University.      Her research focuses primarily on population-environment interactions and health and cross-border migration, migration and health. Dr. Punpuing used to work as a Population Affairs Officer at United Nations (Head quarter) in New York city, a consultant for ESCAP, IOM, ILO and WHO in Bangkok, and UNFPA in Mongolia.

Dr. Punpuing has published numbers of articles on urbanization, migration and health, aging, particularly related to different population such as older persons and adolescents.  She teaches advanced analysis of migration and human ecology to Masters and  Ph.D students.  She holds a Bachelor degree in Statistics from Silpakorn University, Thailand; a certificate in Population Sciences from International Institute for Population Studies (IIPS), India; Master’s degree in Demography and a Ph.D in Resource and Environmental Sciences from the Australian National University, Australia.  She is now serve as an elected-Asia representative- council member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Asia Population Association (APA) Executive Secretary, President of the Thai Population Association, and also a site leader of the Kanchanaburi DSS which is a member of INDEPTH network - longitudinal study sites in Asia and Africa based on health - demographic surveillance system.