Lokachet Tanasugarn

Thanks for sharing your answer – a good compare and contrast indeed!

Thanks for sharing your idea. The lack of techequity is very true and probably is true not only in Thailand. During the early COVID-19 mass vaccination campaign in LA, we did have to ask for volunteers to help the elderly fill in their electronic vaccination records. I think we might see more adaptation of IT services or platforms to meet this need.

Thanks for sharing this insight! This is an important loophole that could result in mistrust among related parties. Data privacy has become more critical than ever with the implementation of the Personal Data Privacy Act (PDPA). Hope that we will have a better and more practical safeguard against this sort of data leakage coming up in time!

Thanks for sharing your idea and good job mentioning climate change as a factor that influences infectious diseases. This is one of the issues in planetary health that is likely to play a bigger role in these recent years!

Thanks for sharing – good point about the lack of scientifically rigorous evidence to support the delivered messages!

Thanks for your organized observation – your answers clearly compare and contrast the communication between the two leaders!

Thank you for sharing! I believe that Myanmar has its own uniqueness in diverse ethnic groups which could be utilized in favor or against any activity. Your answer did a great job of showing us the impact of the coup on the healthcare and IT system which might take years to recover.

Hope that Myanmar will soon recover from the impact of this…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your idea. It’s interesting that your analysis goes beyond the scope of IT to the governance issues at the national level as well. This is also crucial to the overall trust and management during the pandemic. I would say that Thailand has many opportunities for development in both areas!

Good job pointing out one of the most crucial aspects of all these issues: we need to “put people at the center of technology”. Having an inclusive technological development strategy is the key to using them as our supporting and empowering tools!

Thanks for sharing your idea. I also have the same idea in terms of having a centralized data system that is accessible from diverse platforms. At least we are starting to have more open data sources for data in the public sector of Thailand but let’s wait and see the progress of the endeavor.

Thanks for sharing your experience! Since the internet has been one of the infrastructures of IT systems, having well-covered and high-speed internet that could catch up with the evolving disease situation is a pre-requisite for the system to work properly. I wonder if there is any national development plan underway for this obstacle and if there…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing! I agree that most of the attention has been on viral disease in terms of the new PHEIC. It would be interesting to see how we could predict the probability of PHEIC from each potential mutated strain. Maybe, bioinformatics and statistical genetics could be able to help us with these predictions!

Thanks for sharing your idea on the topic. I’m glad that you mentioned the interaction between LMICs and high-income countries in terms of pandemic prevention and control. As we all may already have heard – “no one is safe until everyone is safe”.

Thanks for sharing your answer! I agree with your thought – mutation could result in a new strain of microbe that has PHEIC potential. So, better make sure the people are adequately vaccinated!

Thanks for your systematic answer!

I’m glad that you raised the potential threat of nuclear weapons. Although the examples we had in class are infectious in origin, consequences from nuclear weapons detonation could potentially lead to PHEIC as well.

Good job – keep it up!

Thanks for sharing your idea! I agree with your thoughts, especially on the genetic factors of microbes. With the latest COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed the problematic issue of disease control when we have to deal with the fast mutating organisms that render our preventive measures ineffective. I also hope that we could, someday, develop a…[Read more]

Thanks for your insightful observation!

You have made a solid point about PHEIC being an undesirable declaration due to several factors that are mostly beyond the consideration of disease control. With the likely emergence of new zoonotic diseases, it would be interesting to see how the international threshold on the declaration will shift in…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your idea! It is interesting that you mentioned the user experience in relation to the timeline. I also wonder about their opinion on the initial training during the outbreak as well. On one hand, successfully carrying out the training in such a short period of time could be viewed as a success; however, there might be some…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your idea! I agree that assurance is needed especially if the system has been implemented for a while. Notably, it could be carried out both as an assurance and revision process for all involved parties of the system!

Thanks for your insight and discussion. I totally agree that the successful implementation of a new system in the middle of an outbreak is already made their mission an impressive one! About the data standard, some case definitions and data collection formats have been proposed by US CDC; however, the implementation could be vastly different in a…[Read more]