Phaik Yeong Cheah

Biographic Data

ID1944235
NAMEPhaik Yeong Cheah
GIVEN NAMESPhaik Yeong
FAMILY NAMECheah
SIGNATURECHEAH P Y
AFFILIATIONSMahidol University
ORCID0000-0001-6327-3266
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS26
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR26
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Data reuse in global health

    Open AccessNaomi Waithira, Evelyne Kestelyn et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    BACKGROUND: Data-sharing mandates from funders and journals have increased in recent years, but little is known about how shared data are used. Existing research has focused on access frameworks, with less attention to conditions that enable or hinder subsequent analyses and their impact on science and policy. METHODS: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 22 key informants with experience using clinical research data. Participants include…

  • Rethinking ethical reflexivity and oversight in health research through an ecosystem approach

    Open AccessKatharine Wright, Joseph Ali et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2026

    As the scope of morally relevant considerations widens and new challenges emerge at the frontiers of health innovation, there are questions about the appropriate role and remit for research ethics review, within the broader context of the whole health research ecosystem. Drawing on discussion at a satellite meeting at the 2022 Global Forum on Bioethics in Research in Cape Town, we argue that the ethical conduct of research is the responsibility o…

  • Engagement with migrant communities at the Thai-Myanmar border

    Open AccessNapat Khirikoekkong, Khin Maung Lwin et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2026

    The Tak Province Community Ethics Advisory Board (T-CAB), established in January 2009, provides advice on health research (e.g., malaria, tuberculosis) conducted by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) along the Thai-Myanmar border. As of June 2025, it comprises 19 members, aged between 25 and 60, of Karen and Burmese ethnicities. They advise health researchers on issues such as informed consent procedures and participant compensation amounts.…

  • Engaging youth in health and research in rural Cambodia

    Open AccessMom Ean, Lek Dysoley et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: The Youth Advisory Group on Health and Research Engagement (YAGHRE) has been a collaborative initiative between school students and Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) staff in Siem Pang, Cambodia since 2021. Members provide input on health and research activities conducted by MORU. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of this study was to explore key stakeholders' perspectives on the YAGHRE. METHODS: = 7). Data were collec…

  • ‘Responsive Dialogues’, an engagement framework for antimicrobial resistance

    Open AccessBhensri Naemiratch, Anne Osterrieder et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis requiring multisectoral responses that extend beyond biomedical interventions. Participatory approaches can ensure that policies and practices reflect community realities, yet evidence from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains limited. To examine how the Responsive Dialogues (RD) framework was implemented in Malawi and Thailand, and to identify lessons on adapting participatory …

  • A just war on bugs? Ethical differences between antimalarial resistance and antibacterial resistance

    Open AccessTess Johnson, Lorenz Von Seidlein et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Box Antimicrobial resistance is a chronic, serious threat to humans, animals and the environment, yet measures to address it can be unjust, treating humans, animals or microbes in morally wrong ways

  • Stakeholder analysis for ‘One Health’ approach to tackle antimicrobial resistance

    Open AccessSanjib Adhikari, Komal Raj Rijal et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and interventions to mitigate it are multisectoral, exhibiting super-wicked features that require intersectoral collaboration and synergy. Although AMR and mitigation strategies are pressing issues, their solutions are complex, ethically challenging, multilayered and often conflict at various levels and among diverse stakeholders. The main objective of this study was to identify the values and potential contribution…

  • Over the counter use of topical corticosteroid for skin conditions among patients before attending skin specialist clinic in Nepal

    Open AccessYogesh Poudyal, Nishika Aryal et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Access to topical corticosteroids (TCs) globally includes over the counter (OTC) sale without proper guidelines, exacerbating treatment-resistant infections and complicating outcome of skin conditions. The main aim of the study was to evaluate the reasons behind OTC use of TCs among patients with skin conditions before attending a skin specialist clinic. This study was conducted from September 2021 to March 2022. The study included in-depth inter…

  • Interventions to address antimicrobial resistance

    Open AccessSunil Pokharel, Bipin Adhikari et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health and one health problem. Efforts to mitigate the problem of AMR are challenging to implement due to unresolved ethical tensions. We present an in-depth ethical analysis of tensions that might hinder efforts to address AMR. First, there is a tension between access and excess in the current population: addressing lack of access requires facilitating use of antimicrobials for some populations, while a…

  • Ethical issues in Nipah virus control and research

    Open AccessTess Johnson, Euzebiusz Jamrozik et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2024

    Nipah virus is a priority pathogen that is receiving increasing attention among scientists and in work on epidemic preparedness. Despite this trend, there has been almost no bioethical work examining ethical considerations surrounding the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of Nipah virus or research that has already begun into animal and human vaccines. In this paper, we advance the case for further work on Nipah virus disease in public heal…

  • Data sharing and reuse in clinical research

    Open AccessNaomi Waithira, Mavuto Mukaka et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Data sharing holds promise to accelerate innovative discoveries through artificial intelligence (AI) and traditional analytics. However, it remains unclear whether these prospects translate into tangible benefits in improving health care and scientific progress. In this cross-sectional study, we investigate current data reuse practices and explore ways to enhance the use of existing data in clinical research, focusing on low- and middle-income co…

  • Ethical and cultural implications for conducting verbal autopsies in South and Southeast Asia

    Open AccessNan Shwe Nwe Htun, Carlo Perrone et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

    INTRODUCTION: Causes of deaths often go unrecorded in lower income countries, yet this information is critical. Verbal autopsy is a questionnaire interview with a family member or caregiver to elicit the symptoms and circumstances preceding a death and assign a probable cause. The social and cultural aspects of verbal autopsy have gotten less attention than the technical aspects and have not been widely explored in South and Southeast Asia settin…

  • Use of antimicrobials during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessBinod Dhungel, Upendra Thapa Shrestha et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic was a major public health threat and the pressure to find curative therapies was tremendous. Particularly in the early critical phase of the pandemic, a lot of empirical treatments, including antimicrobials, were recommended. Drawing on interviews with patients, clinicians and drug dispensers, this article explores the use of antimicrobials for the management of COVID-19 in Nepal. A total of 30 stakeholders (10 clinicians, 1…

  • Culturally responsive research ethics

    Open AccessNapat Khirikoekkong, Supa-at Asarath et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Despite advances, international research ethics guidelines still tend to consist of high-level ethical principles reflecting residual influence from North American and European traditions of ethics. Local ethics committees and community advisory boards can offer more culturally-sensitive approaches to training but most institutions lack substantive practical ethics guidance to engage rich moral understandings in day-to-day research practice in di…

  • Experiences, coping strategies and perspectives of people in Malaysia during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessPhaik Kin Cheah, Mohamed B Jalloh et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    This study provides insights into the experiences, coping strategies and perspectives of people in Malaysia living through the first-ever MCO during the COVID-19 pandemic. Such insights into COVID-19-related public health measures are pertinent for successfully planning and implementing future responses to pandemics

  • Vaccine mandates and public trust do not have to be antagonistic

    Open AccessMaya J Goldenberg, Bipin Adhikari et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2023References: 12

  • Under the Mask

    Open AccessMichele Vincenti Delmas, Mary Soan et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    In this paper, we describe the development of the film, “Under the Mask,” which follows the lives of three fictional characters who live on the Thai-Myanmar border as they journey from diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) to completion of treatment. Under the Mask was filmed on location on the Thai-Myanmar border by local filmmakers and former refugee populations. Cast members were chosen from communities living along the border. This paper describes t…

  • “Like a wake-up call for humankind”

    Open AccessBhensri Naemiratch, Mira Leonie Schneiders et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Following the first Thai COVID-19 case in January 2020, the Thai government introduced several non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in March 2020 (e.g., contact tracing, travel restrictions, closure of businesses, curfews, stay at home orders) to control COVID-19 transmissions. This study aimed to understand the views and experiences of a small number of Thai residents related to public health measures implemented during the first COVID-19 wav…

  • The proxy dilemma

    Open AccessSheila Varadan, Salin Sirinam et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2022

    Informed consent is an essential requirement for the ethical conduct of research. It is also a necessary requirement for the lawful conduct of research. Informed consent provides a legal basis to enrol human subjects in clinical research. In paediatric research, where children do not generally enjoy a presumption of competence, a legal representative must authorise a child's enrolment. Determining who should act on behalf of the child is a matter…

  • Why do people purchase antibiotics over-the-counter? A qualitative study with patients, clinicians and dispensers in central, eastern and western Nepal

    Open AccessBipin Adhikari, Sunil Pokharel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: Over-the-counter (OTC) use of antibiotics contributes to the burgeoning rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Drawing on qualitative research methods, this article explores the characteristics of OTC sales of antibiotic in Nepal, its drivers and implications for policy. METHODS: Data were collected in and around three tertiary hospitals in eastern, western and central Nepal. Using pre-defined guides, a mix of semi-structured inter…

  • Feasibility pilot of an adapted parenting program embedded within the Thai public health system

    Open AccessAmalee McCoy, J M Lachman et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    11/01/2019, ClinicalTrials.gov, ID# NCT03539341

  • Elements of effective community engagement

    Open AccessBipin Adhikari, Christopher Pell et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: Mass drug (antimalarial) administration (MDA) is currently under study in Southeast Asia as part of a package of interventions referred to as targeted malaria elimination (TME). This intervention relies on effective community engagement that promotes uptake and adherence in target communities (above 80%). OBJECTIVE: Based on the experienced of designing and implementing the community engagement for TME in Laos, in this article we aim …

  • The First Pint of Science Festival in Asia

    Open AccessMatthew T Robinson, Nattapat Jatupornpimol et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2017Cited by: 1

    The Pint of Science Festival is the largest annual international science festival. So far the event has been held simultaneously in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, and Australia but not in Asia. Pint of Science Thailand was held for the first time this year, in Thailand's capital, Bangkok. This article briefly discusses some of the successes, challenges, and lessons learnt associated with running the first Pint of Science event in A…

  • Exploitation and community engagement

    Open AccessBoriana Pratt, Khin Maung Lwin et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2015

    It has been suggested that community advisory boards ( CABs ) can play a role in minimising exploitation in international research. To get a better idea of what this requires and whether it might be achievable, the paper first describes core elements that we suggest must be in place for a CAB to reduce the potential for exploitation. The paper then examines a CAB established by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit under conditions common in resource‐…

  • Best Practices for Ethical Sharing of Individual-Level Health Research Data From Low- and Middle-Income Settings

    Open AccessSusan Bull, Phaik Yeong Cheah et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2015

    Sharing individual-level data from clinical and public health research is increasingly being seen as a core requirement for effective and efficient biomedical research. This article discusses the results of a systematic review and multisite qualitative study of key stakeholders’ perspectives on best practices in ethical data sharing in low- and middle-income settings. Our research suggests that for data sharing to be effective and sustainable, mu…