Wirichada Pan-ngum

All big problems to be solve. Hopefully we can be a small part in solving these issues 🙂

People being so important component to drive the change. Everyone probably agreed. Well done and thank you for sharing. No talk about non-work changes i.e. changing thing at home, I wonder would it work similarly…probably more difficult 🙂

People being so important component to drive the change. Everyone probably agreed. Well done and thank you for sharing. No talk about non-work changes i.e. changing thing at home, I wonder would it work similarly…probably more difficult 🙂

Good job, Aung. I always feel you have great skills for both hard and soft ones. Thanks for sharing.

All good. I found it is challenging to communicate online or on chat sometimes. It is hard to express emotion and feeling. Sometimes it helps to have some 1:1 time with the staff and really be presence.

Excellent demonstrations of leadership by all of you. Very interesting and a good mix of work and non-work related stuff. Thanks and looking forward to getting to know each other more through this course.

Discussion is closed now. Wait for feedbacks from me in your final project. Well done everyone.

Mostly these infections and interventions are Ok. Good to be a bit more clear on your exact research questions at this point.

Good plan for the mosquito model, I will follow up with you on this. See if you can run some simulations and see the outputs.

I am familiar with your question so it would be good to find something a bit more different than the one we are working on? Can you think of something different, Jumbo?

Good question and probably a few examples in literature. If you can turn that into a more specific case for your setting, it would be great, Thinzar.

This is interesting, Cing although you will need to think further how political instability impact diseases. Is it fewer treatments? Is it fewer vaccines? Is it fewer access to healthcare? Probably all of them. For our short course, I advise you focus on one disease and one or two effects of political instability only.

Dear Wannisa, HIV could be on a rise if people don’t get appropriate treatment. HIV is infectious and chronic so it is appropriate to use modelling to estimate the impact of high treatment coverage. Think more about the structure of the HIV model and what parameters you need for the model eg incubation, treatment rate and disease progression rates etc.

Hi Alex, this research question may not be most appropriate for infectious disease modelling. The approach that is commonly used to answer such questions you proposed would be statistical analysis. Although you may be able to derive some NCD questions, the use of transmission dynamics modelling is to capture the impacts on the transmission. For…[Read more]

Dear Aung, this is an interesting topic for modelling – mosquito population dynamics. I am interested in working on this as we are planning to look at the details of mosquito life cycle and assessment of vector control in the Tak province. The challenge will be how to find some mosquito parameters for the model.

For Tanaphum and Siriluk, you are right to overview the Thai rural and urban healthcare. Can you think of the ways to increase health workforce in rural setting? I think this is a fundamental issue of our country to allocate healthcare professionals (all levels including nurses, doctors and health IT) to cover rural settings. Typically, workforce…[Read more]

Primary care is most necessary in this difficult situation. It requires large number of workforce to cover the whole place. It is difficult to move up the healthcare at all levels right now in Myanmar.

Like Wannisa said we always have the problem with health workforce shortage issue. On the other hand, we have much better technology and innovations that I think can release manpower from long hour and boring jobs. I think people need to change their way of working, learn to make good use of technology and keep positive attitudes.

It is a very critical situation like you described. Power suppliers cutting to try to tackle the online scam operations did not help at all. I am sorry to hear that. It is certainly a bigger issue than just the workforce shortage here. I hope we get through it soon.

I noticed there are several responses to this discussion topic (and other topics too) in the form of summary. It is ok to do so but please make sure you add your own experiences and opinions to this as well, please.