คำกล่าวเปิดงาน Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Conference

1. Opening Speech for Professor Vicharn Panich
Dear Professors, Distinguished Guests, Colleagues and Students,
It is my great pleasure and honor to extend to you a warm welcome
to the eleven Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program Conference 2024,
to be held today.
This conference is the side meeting of The Prince Mahidol Award
Conference (PMAC) which is an annual international conference hosted
by the Royal Thai Government, the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation
and co-hosted by World Health Organization, the World Bank,
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, U.S. Agency for
International Development, Japan International Cooperation Agency,
the Rockefeller Foundation, China Medical Board, and Chatham House
with the support from other key related partners.
The theme for PMAC 2024 is “Geopolitics, Human Security
and Health Equity in an Era of Polycrises”
The Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program started in November 2007
and aims at inspiring the young physicians to devote their lives
to promote health of mankind, as well as creating young health science
researchers with cooperation between the Foundation and the Thai
and overseas medical/health institutions. It will also promote the
globalization of the medical education system in Thailand, and facilitate
medical progress, as well as promoting the understanding of the cultural
differences in health, education, administration and research.

2. This year seven of those young physician scholars have finished their
research/training in the interesting fields under supervision of outstanding
mentors of the prominent institutes. They have come back and work at
the hospitals outside and in Bangkok. In this conference, they will present
their works and experiences of the 12-month time period that they have
spent for their important task. They will also present the plan of extending
the benefits of their project to Thai people and the mankind in both oral
and poster presentations.
I do hope that the Conference will be successful in meeting objectives
and provide the ideal forum to stimulate ideas and establish
collaborations as well as to initiate intense discussions about the
improvement of this program, role model and lifetime mentoring network.
I declare the opening of the eleven Prince Mahidol Award Youth Program
Conference 2024 and wish all of you a fruitful participation.