Publication: Southeast Asian tropical medicine and parasitology network
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2006-02-10
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13835769
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Mahidol University
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Parasitology International. Vol.55, No.SUPPL. (2006)
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Jitra Waikagul Southeast Asian tropical medicine and parasitology network. Parasitology International. Vol.55, No.SUPPL. (2006). doi:10.1016/j.parint.2005.11.044 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/23363
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Southeast Asian tropical medicine and parasitology network
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The SEAMEO TROPMED Network is a regional cooperative network established in 1967 for education, training and research in tropical medicine and public health under the Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization. The Network operates through four Regional Centers with respective areas of specialization and host institutions: Community Nutrition/Tropmed Indonesia; Microbiology, Parasitology and Entomology/Tropmed Malaysia; Public Health/Tropmed Philippines; and Tropical Medicine/Tropmed Thailand. To train health workers, to support research on endemic and newly emerging diseases, and to advocate relevant health policies are the main functions of these centers. SEAMEO TROPMED Network in collaboration with the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University and other institutions has regularly organized the Seminar on Food-borne Parasitic Zoonoses every 3-5 years over the past 15 years. The Faculty of Tropical Medicine has organized the annual Joint International Tropical Medicine Meeting since 1996. Full papers of the presentations at these two meetings have been published as supplementary issues to the Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, an in-house journal of SEAMEO TROPMED Network. Recently, the Parasitology Association of ASEAN Countries has rotated the hosting of the ASEAN Congress of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine. These institutional and conference networks will enable closer links, to promote the health of people in the Southeast Asian region. © 2005 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.