With visionary leadership aimed at addressing health and hygiene issues involving the Thai people, Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol, President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute, acknowledges the serious impact of various critical diseases on the people’s quality of life and livelihood. Among these is rabies, a life-threatening zoonotic disease that requires vigilant monitoring, prevention, and control to ensure the safety of all citizens across the country. In response to this, Her Royal Highness graciously dispatched the Chulabhorn Veterinary Volunteer Unit to the Bangkok Metropolitan Region from July 15-18, 2024, stationing at Kasetsart University Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Triamudomsuksa Pattanakarn Nonthaburi School, and Pathumthani Vocational Education College. Her Royal Highness performed Royal Duties in the field, closely monitoring the operations and offering moral support to all personnel concerned and volunteers. With the strong commitment to eradicating rabies from Thailand, Her Royal Highness distributed rabies vaccines for further administration across target groups of animals in various areas to enhance the efficiency of the prevention and control of rabies across the Bangkok Metropolitan Region. On this occasion, Her Royal Highness took part in veterinary anesthesia procedures collaborating with veterinarians from the Chulabhorn Veterinary Volunteer Unit. With Her competence and expertise in veterinary anesthesia, Her Royal Highness performed anesthesia on dogs to ensure they did not experience pain during sterilization and closely...

Royal Visit to the People’s Republic of China by Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol from May 6-18, 2024 Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol, President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute, has long recognized the importance of academic and research collaborations with the world’s leading institutes in the fields of medical science and technology to enhance knowledge and research and development in medicine, aiming to elevate the country’s medical standards to international level. In May, the President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute paid a royal visit to the People’s Republic of China to continue academic cooperation, exchange of knowledge and development of advanced research in medical science and technology, as well as promotion of long-standing relationship in arts and culture, at the formal invitation of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Bangkok. On this occasion, Her Royal Highness graciously granted the opportunity for Mr. Sun Yeli, Minister of Culture and Tourism, People’s Republic of China, to present the details of the cooperation on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Thailand and the People’s Republic of China in 2025. During this royal visit to China, numerous leading public and private institutes expressed their readiness to support and cooperate in every possible way to fulfill Her Royal Highness’s aspirations to care...

Royal Visit to the Swiss Confederation to Strengthen Cooperation between Chulabhorn Research Institute and the World Health Organization in Addressing the Health and Environmental Issues under the “One Health” Concept Through the proactive policies of Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol, President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute, Her Royal Highness has been guiding the Chulabhorn Research Institute in its efforts to enhance personnel potential and produce talented personnel in the fields of science and technology where there are shortages at accelerated pace. Her Royal Highness places importance on organizing training courses relevant to the problems of health, environmental health, toxicology, and chemical risk assessment. The Chulabhorn Research Institute has long implemented the royal policies both at the national and regional levels, achieving notable empirical results and gaining international recognition. Over the years, the President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute has been committed to promoting cooperation with leading international organizations to address the environmental problems impacting people’s health. This commitment is evident in the President’s active meetings participation in and follow-up efforts on the cooperation in toxicology and environmental health with the World Health Organization (WHO). Thanks to the achievements of research and academic work aligned with the President’s policies, particularly the research on environmental health, the Chulabhorn Research Institute has earned international recognition. In 2005, the World Health...

Through the benevolence of Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol, and in addition to her commitment to the well-being of the Thai people in various aspects, Her Royal Highness also takes great interest in the development of veterinary science to promote the healthcare of animals so that they do not suffer from serious diseases especially rabies, which constitutes a major public health problem in the country. Her Royal Highness continuously dedicates all her efforts to supporting the government sector in addressing such problems, as demonstrated for instance by her royal duties performed with HRH Princess Chulabhorn’s Veterinary Volunteer Unit in Chaiyaphum, Lop Buri, and Phetchabun Provinces between January 27-30, 2024. Upon arrival in each province, Her Royal Highness donated 500 doses of rabies vaccines to the livestock officials in each province to boost the animals’ immunity against the disease. This proactive measure upgraded surveillance and prevention of rabies. Her Royal Highness also administered rabies vaccines to dogs and tagged them under HRH Princess Chulabhorn’s project on “Disease-free Animals, Safe Humans from Rabies”, marking them as vaccinated and safe animals. Rabies remains a public health problem in Thailand, threatening people’s health, and is still found spreading in some areas. At present, there is no cure for rabies, and if infected individuals are not provided with...

Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol recognizes the importance of the care of health and hygiene for the Thai people to enjoy a higher quality of life and better livelihoods. Her Royal Highness is strongly committed to providing assistance in the form of standard medicine, nursing, and public health to all the Thais, ensuring they are inclusively and equally free from diseases. Since His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great graciously appointed Her Royal Highness as Honorary President of the Princess Mother’s Medical Volunteer Foundation (PMMV) in 2009, Her Royal Highness has embraced and continued the commitments of Her Royal Highness Princess Srinagarindra, or the Princess Mother, known as the “Mother of Thai Public Health”, and the commitments of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra, visiting and following up on the work of the Princess Mother’s Medical Volunteer Units across the country. At the beginning of 2024, the needy people of northeast Thailand witnessed the benevolence of Her Royal Highness as she personally visited to perform medical and public health duties. This enabled people to have access to quality medical treatment, disease prevention, and health rehabilitation under the operation of the Princess Mother’s Medical Volunteer Units in Yasothon, Amnat Charoen, and Ubon Ratchathani Provinces in January 9-12, 2024. Upon arrival, Her Royal Highness graciously...

Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol has long been inspired to dedicate herself to helping the Thai people. Since her childhood, Her Royal Highness accompanied His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great and Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother to every region in Thailand on visits to care for the suffering and promote happiness of the Thai people. This experience has enabled Her Royal Highness to understand the people’s hardships, especially from diseases, due to their lack of access to standard medical and public health services. Moreover, the compassion of Her Royal Highness extends to animal health as animals can be disease-carriers to humans. Therefore, to ensure inclusive and comprehensive treatment, Her Royal Highness graciously dispatched the Royal Medical Unit of Chulabhorn Hospital and the Chulabhorn Veterinary Volunteer Unit to increase the efficiency in healthcare, disease prevention, and address public health issues of the people, as well as conduct campaigns to promote the prevention of the spread of rabies in the northeast in Nakhon Ratchasima, BuriRam, Surin, and Si Sa Ket provinces from November 24-28, 2023. On this occasion, Her Royal Highness made visits and provided moral support to the team of doctors, nurses, and medical personnel from Chulabhorn Hospital, The Provincial PMMU Unit (Princess Mother’s Medical Volunteer Unit), Provincial Public Health Office, and community hospitals in...

Professor Dr. High Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol, President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute, has long been dedicated to the Thai people and fostering sustainable development in Thailand. This commitment is evident in Her Royal Highness’s establishment of the Chulabhorn Research Institute (CRI) in 1987, with the aim of providing a platform for academics with high potential to collaborate and generate new knowledge through study and research in chemistry, science, and technology. Additionally, the CRI functions as a center for studying and developing human resources in science and other advanced fields of study.   Internationally recognized for Her competence and accomplishment, Her Royal Highness has been awarded the Albert Einstein Gold Medal by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), notably for Her outstanding contribution as an exemplary academic scientist and for promoting scientific work. Her Royal Highness is the third person and the first female scientist in the world to receive such award. Furthermore, Her Royal Highness has been honored with the Windaus Award in Organic Chemistry from the German Chemical Society of the Federal Republic of Germany for Her significant role as an outstanding scientist with numerous research and academic works in organic chemistry, leading to substantial advancement in the field of organic chemistry.   As a result, Thammasat University Council has made a unanimous decision...

On November 19, 2023, Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol graciously presented the Royal Trophies to the winners of the 2023 National Buffalo Beauty Contest in the “2nd Udon Thani: People’s Ways of Life, Buffaloes’ Ways of Life, Thai Heritage, World Heritage Festival”. The event was organized by Udon Thani Provincial Office, in collaboration with Udon Thani Provincial Administrative Organization, Udon Thani Provincial Livestock Office, the Association for Thai Buffalo Conservation and Development under the Royal Patronage, Udon Thani Rajabhat University, and a network of buffalo farmers in Udon Thani province, at the Khok Nong Ko public area, Thung Yai subdistrict, Thung Fon district, Udon Thani Province. On this occasion, Her Royal Highness presented the Royal Trophies to the first-prize winners of the Grand Champion category, the owners of a male buffalo named Pee Mai from Ubon Ratchathani Province and a female buffalo named Khao Hom from Chai Nat Province, and to the runners up of the Reserve Champion category, the owners of a male buffalo named Wan Charoen from Nong Bua Lamphu Province and a female buffalo named Thong Tip from Nong Khai Province, totaling 4 awards. This year, 686 buffaloes from across the country entered the beauty contest. The Thai people are filled with joy and deep gratitude for the intention of Her Royal Highness to...

It is evident that Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol has always been committed to performing Royal Duties associated with medicine and public health in Thailand, mitigating suffering and promoting happiness of the Thai people. Deeply concerned with the health and hygiene of the sick and needy in Thailand who lack access to advanced medical technologies, Her Royal Highness has dedicated Herself to providing treatment and promoting standard medical and public health services across various areas of the country through the operations of the Princess Mother’s Medical Volunteer Foundation (PMMV), where medical personnel and volunteers from central and provincial administrations work together to fulfill the intention of Her Royal Highness. One such example is the visits that Her Royal Highness made to the PMMV in the Provinces of Maha Sarakham, Kalasin, and Khon Kaen from October 20-24, 2023. Upon learning about Her Royal Highness’s visits, people in these areas and adjacent provinces were filled with happiness and came from early morning to have the opportunity to admire Her Royal Highness closely, express their loyalty, and gratitude in recognition of Her Royal Highness’s immeasurable concern for the people’s well-being. Her Royal Highness greeted and waved at large crowds who came to pay respect to Her along the way. During the PMMV operations in each area this time around, a...

With a strong commitment to ensuring that Thai people enjoy good health and a standard quality of life, Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol recognizes that a factor that poses health challenges for the people is zoonotic diseases. Therefore, Her Royal Highness has made tireless efforts to apply the advanced medical and veterinary technologies from around the world to the research and development of treatments and care for human and animal health in Thailand. Her Royal Highness has also used knowledge and experience drawn from acquiring Her Doctorate of Philosophy Degree in Bioveterinary Science for the development of veterinary work to control, prevent, and build immunity to ensure that animals are healthy and safe from serious diseases which are life-threatening to humans and animals. From October 14-18, 2023, Her Royal Highness performed veterinary work with the Chulabhorn Veterinary Volunteer Unit in the northeast, stationing at Loeianukulwittaya School in Loei Province and at Kesorn Silakhun Temple (Wat Pa Ban Tat) in Udon Thani Province. Under Her Royal Highness’s directives, veterinarians from the Chulabhorn Veterinary Volunteer Unit collaborated with their counterparts from the Provincial Livestock Offices in the areas, offering treatment, sterilization, and rabies vaccination services for stray and people-owned animals. This initiative responds to Her Royal Highness’s vision focusing on the establishment of rabies-free zones in the local areas,...

On October 13, 2023 at 08.53 a.m., at the Chakkapan Pensiri Building, Kasetsart University, Bangkhen Campus, Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol performed a religious ceremony in dedication to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great on Nawamindra Maharaj Day, commemorating the seventh anniversary of His Majesty’s passing. The event was attended by executives, lecturers, students, and personnel from Kasetsart University, representatives from various agencies, as well as executives of the Chulabhorn Research Institute, all in attendance to pay respect to Her Royal Highness and participating in this important ceremony. Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol led the religious ceremony and later attended a musical performance by students from Kasetsart University in dedication to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great. As an alumna of the Faculty of Science and Letters, Her Royal Highness sang His Majesty’s composition “Kasetsart” with lecturers and students, accompanied by music performed by the KU Band. The song was the 42nd composition by His Majesty, graciously bestowed upon Kasetsart University as its University Song. Other songs performed included “Tha Kue Palangjai” (His Majesty is Our Moral Strength), sung in the traditional melodic rhyme, and accompanied by Thai musical instruments performed by students from the Faculty of Humanities, “Pray Who Is He”, and His...

Recognizing the importance of addressing the problems of rabies, an important public health issue in Thailand, Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn Mahidol, President of the Chulabhorn Research Institute, has steadfastly committed to managing and resolving the problems of stray dogs, and eradicating rabies across all regions in Thailand in a sustainable manner. From July 20-24, 2023, Her Royal Highness led the Chulabhorn Veterinary Volunteer Unit to the south, to Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan Temple in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, upon the Nakhon Si Thammarat Provincial Office’s humble request for assistance in addressing the problems of stray dogs within the Temple compound. The Temple is one of the most revered sanctuaries in the south of Thailand and must meet the “cultural heritage” evaluation criteria, as it is currently in the process of registration to be qualified as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The renovation and physical landscaping of the Temple are 95 percent complete and will be presented to the Fine Arts Department by September 30, 2023, for further application to be registered a World Heritage Site. On this occasion, Her Royal Highness graciously provided 500 doses of rabies vaccine to Mr. Pornpirom Fungtrakul, Chief, Nakhon Si Thammarat Provincial Livestock Office, for further vaccination of local dogs and cats to build...