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Our Team > Executive Team
Dr. Si Thura, M.P.H.
Executive Director
Shortly after graduating from medical school in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) in 2008, Dr. Si Thura joined relief and recovery efforts in the Ayeyarwady Delta after the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, the worst natural disaster in Myanmar’s recorded history. The experience convinced him that the key to the future was to strengthen resilience and support the development of community-led services to provide for essential needs such as health care and education. Dr. Si Thura joined Community Partners International (CPI) in 2009 as the organization’s first Myanmar-based staff member.
Starting from a small office in Yangon, Dr. Si Thura has played an instrumental role in bringing CPI from its roots on the eastern border to the forefront of health systems in Myanmar, especially for health reforms. Under his stewardship, CPI supports a network of community-based partners in Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh and other South Asian countries, delivering lifesaving health, humanitarian and development services to more than one million people in conflict-affected, remote rural and urban poor communities.
Dr. Si Thura received the 2013 Australian Leadership Award and 2016 InsideNGO’s Emerging Leader Award. He is also a co-founder and Joint Secretary of the Liver Foundation (Myanmar).
Starting from a small office in Yangon, Dr. Si Thura has played an instrumental role in bringing CPI from its roots on the eastern border to the forefront of health systems in Myanmar, especially for health reforms. Under his stewardship, CPI supports a network of community-based partners in Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh and other South Asian countries, delivering lifesaving health, humanitarian and development services to more than one million people in conflict-affected, remote rural and urban poor communities.
Dr. Si Thura received the 2013 Australian Leadership Award and 2016 InsideNGO’s Emerging Leader Award. He is also a co-founder and Joint Secretary of the Liver Foundation (Myanmar).
