By Royal Command, Professor Vichai Tienthavorn, M.D., Ph.D., was appointed President of Praboromarajchanok Institute, effective from 7 June 2025. The appointment was announced on 9 June 2025 through an announcement of the Office of the Prime Minister, published in the Royal Gazette, Volume 142, Special Issue 216 (ง), page 14, dated 11 June 2025.

During his second term of office (2025–2029), Professor Vichai Tienthavorn, M.D., Ph.D., is committed to building upon the approach of “Building a home, developing people, creating work, strengthening communities and fostering happiness” to support the Institute’s sustainable development.

Guided by the vision of becoming a “World-Class University for Primary Care”, the following policies are established to enable administrators, faculty members, personnel and students to work together to fulfil the Institute’s mission of “Wisdom for Community”:

1. Communicate the institutional vision.
   Ensure that the Institute’s vision is understood at all levels, including administrators, faculty members, personnel and students, and communicate it to audiences outside the Institute.
2. Foster a growth mindset.
   • Instil the Institute’s core values of working together, fostering close bonds, committing to responsibility and upholding integrity.
   • Cultivate an ethical identity grounded in discipline, duty, unity, selflessness, truthfulness and gratitude.
   • Develop students’ core competencies under the “4 C for C” framework to enable them to serve the public with compassion and respect for human dignity.
3. Advance the institutional vision through the “5 Excellences”.
   Implement institutional operations in accordance with the “5 Excellences”, supported by the PBRI Center of Excellence for Primary Care.
4. Promote excellence through quality systems.
   Strengthen quality systems at both institutional and faculty levels, emphasising outcome-based management, equitable access to education through “Education for All”, and the participation of all sectors in education through “All for Education”.
5. Build domestic and international collaborative networks.
   Establish partnerships in primary care to support graduate development, research and innovation, academic services, and the preservation and promotion of arts and culture.
6. Strengthen integrity and transparency.
   Prioritise the Integrity and Transparency Assessment and advance the Institute’s development as an organisation guided by integrity and ethical values.
7. Achieve the goal of becoming a “World-Class University for Primary Care”.
   Deliver outcomes that enable the Institute to progress towards inclusion in world university rankings, guided by the eight components of a quality university.

Announced on 14 August 2025.

Professor Vichai Tienthavorn, M.D., Ph.D.
President of Praboromarajchanok Institute