Yot Teerawattananon
Stewart Cameron Lecture
At each WCN, renowned speakers present Named Lectures. The speakers are selected on the basis of their world class contribution to nephrology and related fields, consistent with the overall themes and priorities of the WCN program.
Dr. Yot Teerawattananon is a medical doctor and health economist. He founded the Thai Ministry of Public Health’s Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP) in 2007. He is also a co-founder of the Asia’s Health Technology Assessment (HTA) network, HTAsiaLink, and the international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI). His works have been used to inform the Universal Healthcare Coverage’s benefits package in Thailand and elsewhere across the globe. He and his team have provided capacity building on HTA including health economic evaluation in more than 30 low- and middle-income countries in Asia and Africa. Since 2018, he has been a visiting professor at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore.
Dr. Teerawattananon is giving the Stewart Cameron Lecture in the WCN Opening Ceremony and Plenary Session 1 on Thursday, March 30, 2023, from 18:00 – 18:40 Bangkok time in Plenary Halls 2-3. He will give the talk, ‘Dispelling the Myths of Providing Dialysis in Low- and Middle-income Countries.’