Sukhontha Kongsin, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in Health Economics in the Department of Public Health Administration at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, where she is also the Director of the Research Centre for Health Economics and Evaluation at the Faculty of Public Health. Her major concentrations are cost and cost-effectiveness analysis in health, economic evaluation of managed care and health financing.

Sukhontha’s research focuses on the evaluation and optimization of health and health system-related strategies and interventions in developing countries. Specifically, she has worked to identify health costs and economic impacts of HIV/AIDS and TB at both the national level and international level. Her expertise includes demand-side incentives and financing of Thailand’s public sector HIV/AIDS services, with a specific focus on patient access and utilization of services and has coordinated numerous regional development issues related to disease burden and health economics in Asia.