Wassana Im-Em

Who is Wassana Im-Em?

Wassana Im-Em is a Thai demographer and academic.

She was born in Chiang Mai. After obtaining a nursing degree in Thailand she worked as a nursing instructor in maternal and child health nursing at the Royal Thai Army Nursing College. She proceeded to Boston, USA from where she graduated from Boston University in 1988 with a master’s degree in nursing science.

Im-em earned a PhD in Population Studies from the Australian National University in 1996. She was a visiting fellow at the Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques, France from 1999 - 2000. From 2001 - 2004 she was a Population Council postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at the University of Washington.

From 1996 – 2006 she was associate professor with the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University. Serving last as a Programme Director of the Masters Degree International Program in Population and Reproductive Health. Her research focused on gender-based violence against women, socio-demographic and health dimensions of reproductive health and HIV, and programme evaluation and monitoring. She has several publications in the field of reproductive health and population.