Autore: Patchanee Malikhao

Patchanee Malikhao is a Thai and a Belgian who received a Ph D in Sociology from the University of Queensland in Australia. She has worked and received extensive trainings in the fields of Communication for Social Change, Imaging Technology, Social Science Research Methods and Data Analyses in Belgium, Australia, and the United States. She was a recipient of many scholarships and awards, including the Fulbright Scholarship, the Australian Postgraduate Award, and the Outstanding Teacher Award. She worked as researcher and lecturer in the School of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; and at Chulalongkorn University and Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. She joined the CSSC Center at UMass Amherst as Senior Fellow in 2010. Currently she is Director of Fecund Communication based in Thailand providing research and consultation/lecture in Health Communication and Communication for Sustainable Social Change to many institutions in the People’s Republic of China, Western Europe, and North America. Patchanee has published widely in the field of Health Communication, Social Change, Globalization/Localization, HIV/AIDS Sociology, Communication and Sustainable Development, Thai Culture, and Buddhism. Her latest book is “Effective Health Communication for Sustainable Social Change”, published by Nova Publishers, New York, USA in 2016. She is also the author of “Sex in the Village. Culture, Religion and HIV/AIDS in Thailand”, published by Southbound & Silkworm Publishers: Penang-Chiang Mai, 2012.