Jiruth Sriratanaban, MD, PhD, is currently working at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University as Associate Dean, Planning and Development. In 2017 he was appointed by the Thai Cabinet to be a member of the Independent Committee on Education Reform and has been involved in drafting laws aiming to promote equity and quality in education, including the Fund for Educational Equity Law and the National Education laws.

Jiruth has a wide range of experience in health system research and management in health service systems, hospital quality management, and universal health coverage. He was on the task force for developing Thai universal coverage policies and evaluating quality under the National Health Security Scheme.

From 2008-2012, Jiruth served on the Medical Board of the Social Security Scheme and worked in many initiatives to reform the Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme in Thailand. Currently, he chairs the Thailand Hospital Indicator Project of the Institute for Healthcare Accreditation and is also a member of the Prime Minister’s Public Health Reform Subcommittee on Health Sector Financing and Health Security Schemes.

In addition, Jiruth has been on the Performance Negotiation Committee of the Office of the Public Sector Development Commission for the Ministry of Public Health and Banpaew Hospital (an autonomous public hospital) for more than 10 years. His previous positions include Assistant Director of King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital of the Thai Red Cross, a 1,500-bed university-affiliated medical center in Bangkok; Assistant to the President of Chulalongkorn University; and Deputy Director, Strategy and Quality Improvement Affairs of KCMH, during which the hospital won the Thailand Quality Class Award in 2013.

Since 2009, he has been a lead assessor of the Thailand Quality Award program—the Baldrige National Quality Program equivalent in Thailand—and a member of the technical subcommittee of the program in 2015. More recently he has focused on project performance measurement, review and improvement systems for primary care in Thailand, the scope of which includes equity as one of the performance areas.