“ The International Health Policy Program (IHPP) was established in 2001. It was initially focused on researches on health economic and health care financing and also act as technical arm for international health role of the Thai Ministry of Public Health. The IHPP has gradually evolved in the past decade and now its main mission includes knowledge generation and management, capacity building in health policy and health systems researches, technical support to the Thai roles in Global Health movements, and health policy advocacy. The development of IHPP is based on a process of ‘continuous interactive learning through actions. "

" It is this social spirit that meshes us together. IHPP new spin-off nodes of expertise such as Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program -HITAP, Burden of Diseases-BOD, Centre of Alcohol Study and Alcohol Policy Research, Obesity Policy, Human Resource for Health, Health Systems Researches, Healthcare Financing, Emerging Infectious Diseases are natural evolution and diversification of expertise to cope with increasing complexities of health systems development. IHPP has never thought of building empire, but diversity its capacities to accommodate more complex health systems problems, towards a lean research institute in a rapid changing context. "