Sureeporn Punpuing
Co-Investigator, Parenting on the Thailand/Myanmar Border
Sureeporn Punpuing is an Associate Professor of the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR), Mahidol University. She was a Director of IPSR during 2008-2016. Her research focuses primarily on population, particularly migration-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 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 Management and Environmental Sciences from the Australian National University, Australia. She was served as a President of Thai Population Association during 2008-2010 and 2014- 2016; an elected-Asia representative- council member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) during 2014-2017, and now as the Asia Population Association (APA) council member, 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.
