We bring together researchers and healthcare professionals dedicated to investigating medication safety, educating professionals, and delivering academic services across health, epidemiology, biology, herbal medicine, and consumer protection.
Conduct evidence synthesis to support healthcare decision-making.
Train others to perform systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Improve evidence synthesis research methods.
Provide learning opportunities for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Thailand has undergone substantial healthcare transformation since the 1970s, shifting from addressing infectious diseases and malnutrition to managing lifestyle-related conditions. The nation has established universal coverage and a structured layering of healthcare professionals — from doctors down to community health workers — ensuring broad access across urban and rural regions. A complementary private sector offers cutting-edge treatments recognized throughout East Asia.
Thailand's integrated health system enables comprehensive pharmaceutical research. SQH operates within a central Thai region encompassing major metropolitan areas, townships, and villages — representing the diverse healthcare infrastructure replicated nationwide and in similar emerging economies.
A structured healthcare workforce ensures access from cities to rural villages.
Thailand leads pharmacy practice research among developing nations.
Surveys improve understanding of health and pharmaceutical care challenges.
Research spans biology, epidemiology, herbal medicine, and patient safety.
SQH's work spans thirteen interconnected domains of medication safety and quality of care.
Investigating the issues that arise from pharmaceutical treatment, from prescribing through to patient use, to identify preventable causes of harm.
Studying harmful and unintended responses to medications, and the combined effects of interacting drugs, to strengthen medication safety.
Examining patient compliance with prescribed drug regimens and the factors that support or hinder consistent, correct medication use.
Analyzing mistakes in drug prescribing, dispensing, and administration in order to design safer medication-use systems.
Assessing patterns of how medications are prescribed, dispensed, and used in real-world clinical practice.
Systematically monitoring the safety of medicines after they reach the market to detect, assess, and prevent adverse effects.
Researching the genetic factors that influence individual responses to medications, supporting more personalized treatment.
A specialized focus on the safe and appropriate use of medications in at-risk groups such as children, older adults, and pregnant women.
A selection of high-impact studies from the SQH team. Click on a publication to read the full highlight.
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This space will grow as new high-impact SQH studies are published.
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