Piya Hanvoravongchai

Piya Hanvoravongchai is the program director of the Equity Initiative, a leadership development program for health equity in Asia based at the CMB Foundation in Bangkok, Thailand. He also teaches health systems and health economics at Chulalongkorn University Faculty of Medicine and serves as the secretary-general of the Thai National Health Foundation. Hanvoravongchai has been active in health policy and system research and health financing development in Thailand and regionally.

A girl from a migrant worker family that came to Thailand from Myanmar and lost their jobs due to COVID-19, lines up for free food in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 23, 2020. The photo shows a small girl wearing a facemask looking at the camera. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
Migration

In Thailand, Noncitizen Health Matters

by Titiporn Tuangratananon, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Piya Hanvoravongchai, Swee Kheng Khor

National progress on migrant health is expansive, effective, and has helped Thailand avoid the worst of the coronavirus