Supa Pengpid

Professor Supa Pengpid is a Head of The Department of Health System Management and Policy at School of Public Health, University of Limpopo, South Africa. She was previously working as Professor in Department of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences at the same university and as Health Education Specialist at the Ministry of Public Health, Thailand for 15 years. Her education is Doctor of Public Health (Dr.PH) and Master of Sciences, in the area of Health Education and Behavioural Sciences, both from Mahidol University and Master of Business Administration from Regenesys Business School. She is a behavioural health researcher and public health educator over 15 years of experience in various health risk behaviours, health promotion and prevention, health systems research and evaluation internationally. She is a project leader of public health intervention research projects, under Flemish Interuniversity Council - Institutional University Cooperation programme (VLIR-IUC), Belgium. She has published more than 50 articles and 5 books and book chapters. Prof. Pengpid’s main research interests are health behaviour interventions in the areas of obesity management (diet and physical activities), child health and nutrition, alcohol intervention, HIV and sexuality education and intervention, including testing and comparing theory-based interventions.