School of Global Studies, Thammasat University, together with other agencies hosted “Girls in ICT Day Thailand 2022” aiming to encourage girls and young women to pursue their studies in STEM, enhance their level of digital skills, raise awareness on meaningful and safe use of ICT, and strengthen the Girls in ICT day online community.
As a result of the COVID-19 situation, the reliance on ICT to support the ‘new norm’ have become evident and widespread. The ICT sector is a growing sector for education in both developed and developing countries. This means that qualified female students in technical fields around the world have significant opportunities available to them. These are excellent opportunities in particular for highly skilled girls and young women who are still a minority when it comes to STEM education and careers. Developing initiatives and activities to promote and encourage girls to take up study in STEM and ICT is hence a requirement.
Girls in ICT Day provides an opportunity for girls and young women to see and be exposed to the benefit of ICT in enabling their career and aspiration. Girls in ICT Day Thailand initiative aims to encourage girls and young woman to pursue studying STEM, enhance their level of digital skill, and raise awareness on meaningful and safe use of ICT. Girls in ICT activities will follow the 2022 theme of “Access and Safety.” According to ITU’s latest data, the proportion of women using the Internet globally amounts to 48 per cent, compared to 55 per cent of men. In relative terms, this means that the global Internet use gender gap stands at 12.5 per cent. If women are unable to access the internet and feel unsafe online, they are unable to develop digital skills and participate in digital spaces, diminishing their opportunities to pursue a career in STEM fields.
The opening ceremony will also introduce the digital skills training programmes that will take place virtually throughout the Girls in ICT Day Thailand 2022 celebration in two months from 28 April to 30 June 2022. Initiatives included the six digital skills training programs: Leadership Program, Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Emerging Technologies towards SDGs, and Technology for Online Challenge that will take place throughout the Girls in ICT Day Thailand 2022 event.
Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University, in collaboration with IEEE Control System Society, Thailand Chapter and Srinakharinwirot University Prasarnmit Demonstration School, hosted an online workshop on the topic “The Girl in Control” to provide the fundamental knowledge of engineering concepts.
The primary target group is female high school students and students who have studied the basic principles of control engineering through the online coding learning via Scratch Program.
This online workshop is an international collaboration among members of the IEEE Control System Society worldwide to foster imagination and encourage youth learning about science, technology and engineering. especially girls, to be interested in applying the knowledge gained to the problems in daily life and to pursue further study in the field of engineering.
Thammasat School of Engineering (TSE), leading by Civil Engineering, continues to promote gender equality in all aspects of engineering school, starting from creating new curriculum to address and increase the competency in soft skills, hence, providing women the opportunity and choices in engineering field. Gender Equality – Women’s application in Thammasat School of Engineering (Mar,2022)
Thammasat University realizes the importance of protecting the non-smokers’ health and has enacted the “Notification on Designating Thammasat University as a Non-Smoking Area” to correspond with the policy of Ministry of Public Health in 2010 in accordance with the “Non-smoker Protection Bill 1992”. To comply with the Notification of the Ministry of Public Health, the University issued a policy and practice guidelines in designating Thammasat University as a non-smoking area. The procedures were put in place since 2010 to ensure all campuses of Thammasat University are non-smoking areas. The “Smoke Free” policy was revisited on 8 October 2019.
ประกาศมหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์ เรื่อง การกำหนดให้พื้นที่มหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์เป็นเขตปลอดบุหรี่ ณ วันที่ 30 สิงหาคม พ.ศ.2565 All campuses and the entire area of the university, both inside and outside buildings or other structures, including areas that are reserved for public use, whether fenced or not, are designated as non-smoking areas. However, smoking areas can be specifically arranged strictly outside buildings or other structures. The designated smoking areas, with these restrictions, have to be clearly marked for the smokers. The University has also appointed persons-in-charge to ensure the strict compliance and will impose penalty for all violations.
As stress from studies and university life becomes more challenging for students. Starting in 2019, Thammasat University established “Viva City: TU Counseling Center” to provide free mental health care and support for all students who are suffering from psychological problems as well as actively promote good mental health and how to cope with crisis. The services are all FREE of charge which include medical examination, organizing various activities that help in enhancing skills in handling mental problems, psychiatrists, psychologists, student advisors, and career counselors.
1. Counseling Services – Free mental health support and services for students
For in-person counseling service, students can consult with a psychiatrist by appointment. Counseling in English is also available for international students in all campuses.
After-hours counseling services are available only on Monday to Thursday, and appointments are arranged based on assessments and referrals from services provided during official hours. Available Monday to Friday from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM (during official hours), except on public holidays.
2. Active Promotion of Good Mental Health through Group Activities
Activities are organized to promote and support the development of skills, techniques and understanding of mental well-being for students, such as stress management, building self-esteem, self-forgiveness, art & music therapy, baking and knowledge exchange groups. These activities provide a safe space for students to exchange ideas and aim to foster a culture of mental well-being among students by emphasizing the importance of mental health care, knowledge and accessibility. The activities rotate regularly, and you can follow the upcoming events on Viva City: TU Counseling – Facebook
Group Psychological Counseling Activity – “Because We Are Good Enough as We Are” – aimed at fostering self-acceptance and building self-esteem. (เพราะเราดีพออยู่แล้วในแบบของเรา)
Exhibition of self
Mental health checkup
Self rewarding
Stress therapy through journaling (เขียนเล่าสู่กันฟัง)
The meaning of life (ร่วมกันตามหาความหมายของชีวิต)
Techniques for communication during a mental health crisis (เทคนิคการสื่อสารในภาวะวิกฤตทางสุชภาพใจ)
Mondays: Stress testing via chest or diaphragm breathing, conducted by Prof. Athichat Rojanahadsadin (Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Liberal Arts).
Thursdays: Stress testing via brainwaves or electroencephalogram (EEG), conducted by Asst. Prof. Dr. Kaesorn Muijjin (Professor of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing).
4. On-site Psychiatric Medication Services at Viva City Center and Medication Pickup at the Community Pharmacy Practice (Osot Dome)
Available on Mondays and Wednesdays after office hours. Access is only available through referral from counseling services, except if you have previously received treatment at another hospital, and the psychiatrist has issued a referral letter for continued treatment. In this case, you can submit your information and attach a photo of the referral letter via
After submitting, wait for a callback from the staff to schedule an appointment with the psychiatrist. The waiting time for a callback may vary. If you want to know your position in the queue, you can inquire via Facebook chat.
5. Telephone Counseling Service (Call Center 02-026-2345, press 2)
Available Monday to Friday from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM. On holidays, the service is available 24 hours. (One line is available per day, and you can call directly without prior appointment.)
6. Online Counseling Service (No Medication) – free of charge service
Viva City provides “Free Access” 24 hours counseling service through a call center. Viva City opens another avenue of support, offering counseling services for Thammasat students free of charge. This service is provided online through the platform Relationflip Registration Form. Students will have access to psychologists and psychiatrists through appointment bookings and consultations available 24 hours a day. (This service does not include medication.) The service opens to all Thammasat’s students, regardless of year student or campus.
Steps to Access the Relationflip Counseling Service:
Click on the link or scan the QR Code to access the system.
Enter your student ID, name, and surname to verify your information for service usage.
Fill in your email and set a password. Passwords must include:
6-15 characters
At least 1 digit
At least 1 uppercase letter
At least 1 lowercase letter
Once confirmed, you can log in to the system to input your personal information and schedule appointments immediately. Relationflip will keep your data confidential in all cases, always adhering to professional ethics.
7. Mental Health Services Statistics
Since opened in 2019, there were 9,495 students who visited and used the services provided by the center. In year 2023, women represented 75.7% of the total visitors.
For more information on the supports and services for students and staffs at “Viva City Center” and Thammasat Counseling and Psychological Services Center (TCAPS Center), please visit: Viva City: TU Counseling – Facebook
8. Thammasat Counseling and Psychological Services Center for Students (TCAPS Center)
TCAPS center is a psychological and counseling service center for Thammasat University students across all 4 campuses: Rangsit, Tha Prachan, Lampang, and Pattaya. The service is for students seeking mental health counseling.
Steps to receive TCAPS services:
1. Fill out the information via the Google Form link 2. Add TCAPS as a friend through the Line Official account @tcaps or click this link 3. Take a screenshot of the completed form and send it via Line Official, along with your full name through the chat.
Several group and individual activities were such as a psychological counseling group to cope with social anxiety, those who are struggling with social interactions, talking to people, or speaking in front of the class. The group will help students face challenges together, exchange experiences with peers and learn how to manage anxiety
Psychological counseling group is FREE of charge.
For Thammasat University students from all faculties and years.
Thammasat University has issued a policy to promote and take care of student sexual health through the establishment of Thammasat Well Being Center in 2019, including a plan for an opening of the “Sex Must Say” clinic in the future. Several ongoing activities to provide sexual and reproductive health care services for students, both living in the dormitories and outside. Free sexual health care program includes: 1) Free HIV screening by Thammasat University Hospital and Rainbow Sky Association of Thailand; 2) Free condom, lubricant gel, and application brochures; 3) Free teaching materials (i.e. organ model) to educate a proper sexual health education as well as raising awareness through various media on the topics of safe sex, sexually transmitted disease prevention, and unintended pregnancy prevention; and 4) Free counseling services on sexual health through Thammasat Well Being Center Facebook page to provide health care advices and to coordinate and assist the students with sexual health issues.
Well-being of its students, faculties and staff is one of Thammasat University’s priorities. Thammasat provides health-supporting environment and shares its sport facilities with local community, schools and general public. The international standard sport facilities can be used for multiple purposes, from organizing national and international level sport competitions to seminar and recreation events.
Our facilities can accommodate 500-20,000 participants, with facilities supporting multiple types of sports including fitness room, swimming pool, tennis court, areas for X-treme sports, squash court, basketball court, football stadium, gyms, and rock climbing.
Sports stadiums emphasizes on the importance of preventing the spread of germs and COVID-19 by installing air disinfection machine with Hydroxyl charge and ultraviolet radiation that can eliminate viruses and bacteria in the air in the fitness centers and air filters to provide a better circulation of the air in all fitness areas, working 24 hours a day. Mask wearing is restricted. Cashless payment is provided via QR code and debit/credit cards scanning to reduce the exposure to germs.
Thammasat University allows the general public to access and use the sports facilities such as:
Solar Park, a public park with an area of about 1 square kilometer, was established with a concept of environmental development to increase “green space” and promoting healthy lifestyle, closer to nature and make use of renewable energy.
Bicycle tracks around campus with the total distance of more than 14km, under the concept of promoting “sustainable cohabitant”, are provided to encourage the students and general public to use bicycles for transportation and exercise.
Mini stadium is a field that can be used for various sports such as football, futsal and rugby, together with a 800-meter running track and outdoor fitness facilities which has been popular among the local schools and the general public.
Please see more details of “Thammasat Shared Sport Facilities” here.
Being healthy both physically and mentally are essential especially for small children. The health promotion activities and regular physical check-up, then, will provide us the information on health status of these children and enable us to prevent and/or pre-empt child disease in kindergartens and schools.
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University recognizes the importance of health examinations for small children at Thammasat Kindergarten School to obtain health related information which may affect both physical and mental development of these children. The program intents to, not only screening for common health problem for children, educating health care prevention activities to both the teachers and students, but also using the program as the training and learning courses for the 6th year medical students in the Pediatrics department.
Children who have impediment or developmental delay in language development and other developments such as intellectual, social, emotional, and problematic are also the key concerns for Thai community. Researches showed that there are approximately 30% of the newborn children up to the age of six who may experience the delay in language development. It is essential that parents and caregivers must have the knowledge, understanding and skill to care for these children, especially during the situation of COVID-19 outbreak.
“Family Classroom for Impediment Children” project was created by Faculty of Nursing, Thammasat University, to assist parents, caregivers, and children with impediment, developmental delays or with special needs on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Related articles and websites: 1. “Be Healthy and Be Happy Life” program to provide knowledge and understanding of good health and appropriate nutritions for the elderly in the NCDs group with the follow up on health assessment. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H8b6hTpa1dw0mqDTjd_tp6ZsmHl4NEvi/view
In addition to the health check-up services, the knowledge of pharmaceuticals, physical therapy, and elderly exercise are as essential. Hence, the Applied Thai Traditional Medicine, Thammasat University organized a project to provide knowledge about health care using Thai traditional medicine in the areas such as herbs for skin diseases and conducted a workshop to make herbal products to reduce the harshness of skin diseases such as glycerin bar soap mixed with mangosteen peel, liquid soap from turmeric herb, tamarind, and honey, shampoo mixed with kaffir lime and butterfly pea, etc.
Please see more details of the other activities during 2021-2022 provided by the mobile health service unit from the Healthcare Service Center, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Thammasat University from this links. Healthcare Service Center, Thammasat University
Thammasat Royal Mobile Dental Unit, under Faculty of Dentistry, Thammasat University, organized a “free” dental service project for people in the area in Patumthani province and in various remote areas.
Thammasat University was granted with the royal permission to establish the “Thammasat Royal Mobile Dental Unit” since January 11, 1999. The project is aimed to providing the “free of charge” dental services to the public, to promoting the importance of dental health care and to educating the proper oral hygiene care to themselves and their families, especially the elderly.
From March until December,2022, the dental service project offered free dental service to the people at Pathum Thani Correctional Center, Khlong Luang community (Pathum Thani Province), Sam Phran community (Nakhon Pathom Province), underprivileged children (Chiang Mai Province), and oral care and hygience training in several districts and communities in Pathum Thani. Each year, there were more than 1,500 people have been serviced from Thammasat Royal Mobile Dental Unit.
Most projects were funded by the Royal Dental Fund under His Majesty the King and Alumni Relation Office with approximately 45 medical staffs participated in these projects. Please refer to the Royal Dental Unit’s facebook for more details on the dental service projects. Thammasat Royal Mobile Dental Unit
In addition to the mobile dental unit, the Faculty of Dentistry, together with Thammasat University Hospital offered another two “free” dental services. The first one was to celebrate the “National Dental Public Health Day” on October 21, 2022, offering free services such as tooth filling, tooth extraction, scaling, and fluoride coating for children and adults, 500 applicants, at the Dental Center, Thammasat University. Free Dental Services (Oct,022)
The other was a campaign called “Shared Smiles” which offer full mouth denture service and root canal treatment, starting from July 1, 2022 until June 30, 2023 at Student Dental Clinic, Thammasat University. โครงการรักษารากฟันแบ่งปันรอยยิ้ม (Jul,2022-Jun,2023)
The quality of health and well-being for the people in the community has always been a key focus for Thammasat University. During COVID-19 pandemic, Thammasat University collaborated with both local and national institutes to establish Field Hospital, curing patients suffer from COVID-19. Thammasat University Field Hospital for COVID-19 opened since March 27, 2020 as the first field hospital in Thailand, from the cooperation between Thammasat University Hospital and the network association of five medical schools (Faculty of Medicine, Thammasat University; Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital; Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University; Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, and Faculty of Medicine, Vajira Hospital). Thammasat University Field Hospital is considered a prototype for the establishment of other field hospitals in Thailand, again during the 2nd wave of the epidemic in December, 2020 and continue the support during January until March, 2021.
Thammasat University together with the Office of Disease Prevention and Control Region provided COVID-19 screening to the residents of Patumthani, students, staff, university’s personnel and the community around the university area. There were as many as 3,093 participants in the screening which utilized the high-precision RT-PCR (Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction) testing. Please see more details in COVID-19 screening
During June, 2021, Thammasat University Hospital set up a vaccination center at gymnasium 4, Rangsit Campus and was in operation for 161 days to administer as many as 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. The vaccine registrations were done through “TUH for All” application in July, 2021. Please see more details in COVID-19 Vaccination Center
Thammasat University will continue these tasks and create new initiatives and collaboration in order to improving health and well-being of Thai people with various sectors, including the government, private sector, academic sector, medical school, and other health institutions.
Another project was the collaboration with the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) for the “Research and Development Collaboration Project on Digital Healthcare to develop the Smart Hospital”. Please see more details in Research and Development Collaboration Project
