SI 6 Capacity Building on Health Promotion

Healthy University Rating System (HURS) 2026 – SI 6.1 and SI 6.2

SI 6.1 Health Promotion Training Programs

Description

Siam University builds health promotion capacity through both training sessions (lecture-based, to raise knowledge) and training workshops (hands-on, to build skills). 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.

NODE Phasi Charoen. The Phasi Charoen Well-being Node is a collaboration between Siam University, the Phasi Charoen District Office, the National Health Security Office (NHSO) and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, involving 45 local communities. Using a “problem tree”, the communities chose the reduction of NCD risks as their main concern. Lecturers from the Faculties of Pharmacy, Nursing and Communication Arts serve as trainers, mentors (“pee-liang”) and coordinators of the Node’s 16 community sub-projects (One Plan One Node One Report). They train community leaders, mentor each community team, and follow up the sub-projects through ARE (follow-up and learning exchange) forums.

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 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, 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, with hand-swab tests for food vendors and test kits for food and containers. 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. 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.

Table SI 6.1.1 – Health promotion training workshops, 2025

Sources: NODE Phasi Charoen website (home page, 20 September 2025); UI GreenMetric ED 6.19 community services, items 3, 7, 11–14; SI 6.1 activity report (Siam BKK Food Bank file). Photos: SI 6.1 evidence file.

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

Participants and evaluation. 80 older people at Bang Khae Elderly Care Center 2; 45 students and teachers at Youth Camp #13; about 60 pharmacy students a year in The Last Puff, who help about 40 smokers a year with a 35% quit rate, a 41.94% fall in smoking after six months and 92% satisfaction.

Application. Skills from these workshops are applied in the 16 NODE community sub-projects, which collect pre- and post-participation surveys and two rounds of follow-up data, and in community health screening by village health volunteers.

Supporting evidence

• Schedules and descriptions: NODE Phasi Charoen – https://sites.google.com/view/nodepscr/home; UI GreenMetric ED 6.19 and THE 1.4.3 evidence (attached PDFs)

• Photos: SI 6.1 evidence file (NODE workshop, correct use of medicine, Safety Food City, The Last Puff, Siam Safety & Healthy Week, Youth Camp, Time Bank); SI 6.1 activity report; IGGA 2025 certificate

SI 6.2 Online Tools and Resources for Health Promotion Capacity Building

Description

Siam University lecturers and students use online tools to share health knowledge, advise the public and monitor community health promotion projects. The main platforms are the NODE Phasi Charoen website and social-media channels, the Faculty of Pharmacy’s Osot Siam Pharmacy channels (YouTube, webinars and Facebook), and the Faculty of Medicine’s “Siam Cares for Health” channels.

Table SI 6.2.1 – Online tools and resources for health promotion

Table SI 6.2.2 – Communities monitored through the NODE online system (2025)

Source: NODE Phasi Charoen website, “Data of 16 communities” (project codes 68-00334 to 68-00476).

Usage and feedback. The Osotsiam SU YouTube channel has 60 subscribers and 21 videos; for example, the video on dyslipidaemia has 393 views and the video on drink-spiking drugs 273 views (November 2026).

Supporting evidence

• Access details and screenshots: https://sites.google.com/view/nodepscr/home; screenshots of the NODE home page, 16-community data page and activity log, and of the Osotsiam SU channel, in the SI 6.2 evidence file

• Osot Siam Pharmacy: https://www.youtube.com/@osotsiamsu1802; Faculty of Pharmacy Facebook page:health and smoking-cessation infographics (SI 6.2 evidence file)

• Social media: https://web.facebook.com/NODEphasicharoen; https://www.tiktok.com/@nodepscr

• Siam Cares for Health: Sustainability Report 2025–2026, p. 49 – https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/SDG_report_2025_2026.pdf; https://sustainability.siam.edu/goal-3/