From September 10 – 11, 2011, delegates and administrators from the Malaysia Health Promotion Board, led by Prof. Dr. Lekhraj Rampal, the Deputy Chairman of the Board, Dr. Yahya Bin Baba, the CEO of the Board, and 4 other administrators traveled to visit Sukhothai Historical City, to study tobacco control measures and the Sukhothai Smoke – Free Historical City Program.

The International Relations Section of Thai Health Promotion Foundation welcomed 9 high ranking administrators and delegates from the public sector and private development organizations from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Their visit was part of a field trip for the Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation for Development Course at the Asian Institute of Technology. The visit is aimed at learning about the activity and work plan management, and project monitoring and evaluation at Thai Health Promotion Foundation.

The International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) has selected Thai Health Promotion Foundation to host the 21st IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion in 2013. Thailand will be the first nation in the Asian region to host the conference, which will be an opportunity for Thai Health Promotion Foundation to show the world its accomplishments in health promotion. Thai people are invited to participate as good hosts in welcoming over 3,000 conference delegates from around the world. 

On the 4-5 October 2010, Malaysian Health Promotion Board has visited to ThaiHealth Promotion Foundation (TPF) concerning on governance structure, funding mechanisms, progression, capacity building, and reach with TPF’s partners. During the study visit, there were 3 organizations including, National Health Foundation, Tooth Friendly Network, and SEATCA have shared their experiences issuing on the partners’ capacity building that TPF has recently succeeded.

On February 15 – 19, 2010 ThaiHealth welcomes five delegates from Samoa government. The group consists of Hon. Speaker of Parliament, Parliamentarian, Chief Executive Officer of Ministry of Education, representative of Ministry of Health and Attorney Office. Their major focus was to learn how to set up ThaiHealth by utilize sin taxes as a funding source for health promotion, share and exchange experiences in promoting healthy lifestyles and addressing non-communicable disease including advocating health at political level.

November 12, 2008, ThaiHealth welcomed ten Indonesian Senators who paid ThaiHealth a visit to learn about tax, tobacco control and health promotion. The Senators put their intention to strengthen Indonesian tobacco consumption control policies. Their major focus was given to the utilization of sin taxes as a funding source for health promotion.

Few months later, ThaiHealth introduced its social marketing plan and campaigns to six Vietnameses from the BBC World Service Trust. Being supported by the Asian Development Bank, the Trust laid down the capacity building policy for its staff and worked on communication and campaigning for the project “Prevention of HIV/AIDs in Vietnamese Teenagers” in fifteen provinces.