Dr Suwit Wibulpolprasert is a public health specialist, administrator and policy advocate at national and global level. He began his career as a Director and practitioner in rural areas and has various technical and administrative experience in Thai FDA, Bureau of Health Policy and Plan, and as a Deputy Permanent Secretary and a senior expert in Health Economics and Disease Control. He served as an advisor to the Ministry of Public Health on Global Health until October 2024.
Dr Suwit has been proactively working in public health area for more than 3 decades from the grass root to the highest policy levels. In parallel, he has been working with science sector in various areas including the reform of science sector (legal frameworks and restructuring of Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation), drug including vaccine and medical device development along the value chain. Apart from his contribution in public health and R&D in Thailand, he is one of global health leaders who is well-known in the public eye as the fore front fighter to protect the benefit of the developing countries and the poors.
At present, Dr Suwit is the Health Service Standard and Quality Control Committee of the National Health Security Office (NHSO), the National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC), the Board Member of National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), and Chair of the Subcommittee for Development of the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM Subcommittee).
Dr Suwit is also the Vice Chair of the International Health Policy Program Foundation (IHPF) and the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Foundation (HITAF).