Associate Professor Noppadon Tangpukdee, Ph.D. is involved in 3 core missions of the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University: teaching, research and academic services. He is Assistant to the Dean for Resource Management at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, a lecturer in the post graduate program at the Bangkok School of Tropical Medicine and investigator in many research projects. This latter role involves collaborating with Columbia University in the United States, and the National Centre for Global Health and Medicine in Japan as well as with numerous Thai researcher groups.
Malaria is the main topic of his research work. At present, he has 60 publications and 10 book chapters (in both Thai and English-language text books).