SI 6.1 Evidence Health Promotion Training Siam University

Healthy University Rating System (HURS)

University : Siam University

Country : Thailand

Web Address : https://sustainability.siam.edu

SI 6 Capacity building on health promotion

[6.1] Health Promotion Training Programs

Description:

Siam University builds health promotion capacity through hands-on training workshops and lecture-based training sessions. They are led by lecturers and students of the Faculties of Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicine (Public Health and Occupational Health and Safety), Communication Arts and Science, for community leaders, village health volunteers, older people and caregivers, food vendors, hospital personnel, school students and the University’s own students (Tables SI 6.1.1 and SI 6.1.2).

NODE Phasi Charoen. The Phasi Charoen Well-being Node brings together Siam University, the Phasi Charoen District Office, the National Health Security Office and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, with 45 local communities. Using a problem tree, the communities chose the reduction of non-communicable disease (NCD) risks as their main concern. Lecturers of the Faculties of Pharmacy, Nursing and Communication Arts serve as trainers, mentors and coordinators of 16 community sub-projects. On 20 September 2025 the Node trained community leaders at four hands-on stations: body-composition measurement, health communication media, project accounting and healthy cooking.

Older people and caregivers. From 25 August to 10 September 2025 the Faculty of Pharmacy ran workshops on the correct use of medicine at the elderly care centres in Bang Khae and Din Daeng. At Bang Khae Elderly Care Center 2, 80 residents learned about the correct use of medicines, the rational use of antibiotics and painkillers, antimicrobial resistance and chronic kidney disease. The Phasi Charoen Time Bank of the Research for Community Development Center, run for seven years with support from the Thai Health Promotion Foundation, has become a model community network for the well-being of older people and received the “2025 Outstanding Aging Network Organization” award from the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.

Food safety. Under the Bangkok “Safety Food City” programme, the Phasi Charoen District Office and Public Health Service Center 62 inspected the campus canteens in Semester 1/2025: food vendors had hand-swab tests and food and containers were checked with test kits. The Faculty of Science’s Science and Technology Youth Camp #13 taught food technology and food safety to 45 secondary school students and teachers from six schools in January 2025.

Students as health promoters. In “The Last Puff”, run by the Faculty of Pharmacy since 2012, about 60 third-year pharmacy students a year (more than 800 in total) learn to provide smoking-cessation services through Osot Siam Pharmacy and community outreach. About 40 smokers are helped each year, with a 35% quit rate; after six months participants smoked 41.94% less and 92% were satisfied. The programme was Highly Commended in the 2025 International Green Gown Awards (Student Engagement).

Professional training. The Program of Occupational Health and Safety, Faculty of Medicine, held Siam Safety & Healthy Week seminars on 13 and 17 June 2024 and 23 June 2025 for hospital personnel and hospital engineering staff across Thailand, with the Rotary Club of Patumwan, the Air-Conditioning Engineering Association of Thailand and the Department of Health Service Support, Ministry of Public Health.

Related activities. The Student Union led the SIAM BKK Food Bank, part of the Bangkok “Food Bank: City of Sharing” project, collecting food and goods for vulnerable people from February to April 2025, and the 3.5 km Siam Walk & Run 2025 on 5 April 2025 raised funds for it. Two Faculty of Pharmacy students represented Thailand at the CUPT–CRISU student forum on food sovereignty and security in Indonesia on 25–26 August 2025.

Table SI 6.1.1 – Health promotion training workshops (hands-on)

Sources: SI 6.1 activity report (Siam BKK Food Bank file); NODE Phasi Charoen website; UI GreenMetric ED 6.19 community services, items 3, 7 and 11–14; Sustainability Report 2025–2026, p. 26. “Photos” refers to the numbered sections above.

Table SI 6.1.2 – Training sessions and other capacity-building programmes

Sources: SI 6.1 activity report; NODE Phasi Charoen website; UI GreenMetric ED 6.19 (15); SDG 10 web page.

Evidence to attach:

• SI 6.1 activity report with photos (Siam BKK Food Bank, Safety Food City, The Last Puff, NODE Phasi Charoen, Time Bank, correct use of medicine, Siam Safety & Healthy Week).

• NODE Phasi Charoen website: https://sites.google.com/view/nodepscr/home;

• UI GreenMetric ED 6.19 and THE 1.4.3 evidence.

• Osotsiam SU youtube channel

• IGGA 2025 Highly Commended certificate – The Last Puff.