Anond Kulthanmanusorn is a medical doctor and public health specialist with four years of experience working in district hospitals in a rural province of Thailand.

He recently graduated with a Master’s degree in public health from King’s College London where he worked on issues of inequities of healthcare utilization in Thailand.

Currently, he is a research fellow in health policy and systems at the International Health Policy Program, a research institute under the Ministry of Public Health.

Anond’s work focuses on primary health care (PHC) in urban settings, universal health coverage (UHC), health equity, and access to health service. In this position, he advocates for evidence-based health policies that incorporate multiple perspectives – including those of policymakers, healthcare providers, users, and others. His most recent project “Evaluation on a PHC network policy in UHC scheme” focused on strengthening PHC services for a low socioeconomic group. During the pandemic, he was a core team of a health professional volunteer group named “CoCare”.

His platform provided a free teleconsultation for covid-19 patients who unable to access to care and outreach covid testing for migrant workers. Around 75,000 consultations and 25,000 covid testing were served by 450 health professionals during nine months of the operation.