Healthy CMU Project
Healthy CMU Project On any given evening, Chiang Mai University’s campus is a hive of activity with people walking, running and playing a wide variety of sports. With a population of 48,000, including students, faculty and support staff, Chiang Mai University is a town unto itself, requiring effective management to ensure a good quality of living for all residents. Health is one of the most important things in life and Chiang Mai University, as one of the five Thai universities in the ASEAN University Network (AUN), is also a member of the AUN-Health Promotion Network which has a policy of promoting universities to become Healthy Universities. The Healthy CMU initiative was therefore formed to create a framework to support this strategy. “Our students are many and mostly very young; we also have lecturers and other personnel who cross multiple demographics,” said Associate Professor Ronnaphob Uaphanthasath,M.D., Assistant to the President. “What this means is that to help them all achieve and maintain good health, we have to ensure that they are healthy in body as well as mind. Many don’t have the time to exercise. They are too busy working or studying; some doctors are too busy looking after other people’s health to care for their own. Others may have time, but don’t have the inclination or impetus to exercise, so our task was to find ways to help urge them to do more.” The Healthy CMU team is comprised of experts from multiple faculties and departments including science, health sciences, technology, sports, public health, mass communication, dentistry, pharmacy and education. These faculties are all working seamlessly to use their expertise to forward the agenda of a healthy campus. A total of 11 major organisations are spearheading this vision – Faculties of Dentistry, Education, Veterinary Pharmaceuticals, Medical Technology, Public Health, Mass Communications, the College of Arts
