Biography

Sutayut Osornprasop (Ph.D.) is Human Development Specialist in the Health, Nutrition, Population Global Practice of the World Bank. Based in Bangkok, Sutayut is the Health Cluster Leader for Thailand and a Co-Task Team Leader of the Lao PDR Health Governance and Nutrition Development Project. A social scientist by training, Sutayut is the champion of multi-sectoral and social determinants of health. He is widely known for his leadership in promoting HIV prevention and harm reduction among key affected populations, through projects and analytical work in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Sutayut also leads the Bank’s support to the Lao PDR Government to address nutrition challenges multi-sectorally. His leadership and contribution to the post-disaster damage and losses assessment of the health sector following Thailand’s devastating floods in 2011 is well-recognized. He also contributed to the damage and losses assessment of the health sector following Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in 2008. He has worked on health financing and co-authored public expenditure reviews of the health sector in Thailand and Myanmar. He has also contributed to the efforts to support Palestine on the Universal Health Coverage agenda.