Direk is the Head of Microbiology at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (http://www.tropmedres.ac), Professor of Epidemiology at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Thailand, and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology of the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of his main research areas. He developed an offline, open-access and easy-to-use application that allows a hospital to perform data analysis and generate AMR surveillance reports automatically and independently (www.amass.website; JMIR 2020). This application has been adopted by the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) Thailand (JAC AMR 2023; J Infect 2024) in order to allow public hospitals in Thailand to independently perform data analysis and generate AMR surveillance reports. The new Thailand AMR dashboard is open-access and is being used to support both local and national actions on AMR.
Direk advocates the concept of ‘antibiotic footprint’ as a tool to communicate to the public the magnitude of antibiotic use in humans, animals and industry (www.antibioticfootprint.net; JAC 2019; JAC AMR 2023). To support communication with lay people and solve a problem of jargon surrounding AMR in local languages, Direk also initiated the AMR Dictionary (www.amrdictionary.net; Wellcome Open Res 2021).
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