Chiang Mai University (CMU) participates in international collaboration on gathering and measuring data for the SDGs through the ASEAN University Network - Health Promotion Network (AUN-HPN). The work supports Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and Sustainable Development Goal 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).
The Healthy University Rating System
AUN-HPN Links universities in Brunei Darussalam , Cambodia ,Indonesia , Lao PDR,Malaysia , Myanmar , the Philippines, Singapore , Thailand and Vietnam , CMU among them. The network measures how well its members promote health through the Healthy University Rating System (HURS), an online self-assessment of 46 questions across 22 areas of the AUN Healthy University Framework. Each university gathers and enters its own data, and the network uses the results to give a star ratings.
CMU submitted its data and was rated four stars in the 2024 HURS round.AUN-HPN announced the ratings in Pasay City,the Philippines , on 27 - 28 November 2025,before at least 200 AUN members.
CMU also helps coordinate the Thai side of the network.Asst.Prof.Dr.Chirawath Phatsara,Assistant to the President , chairs the Thai University Network for Health Promotion (TUN-HPN) Committee for 2024-2026. On 31 January 2025 he co-chaired the committee’s 13th meeting , where members reviewed a summary of Thai universities’ participation in HURS for 2024.
Seed data for forest restoration
A second collaboration gathers data for Sustainable Development Goal 15 (Life on Land).CMU’s Forest Restoration Research Unit (FORRU-CMU) leads Global Tree Seed Bank Thailand with the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew , in the United Kingdom and the Bangkok Forest Herbarium, with funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation. The team collects seed from more than 30 native tree species, keeps an online seed catalogue , writes propagation and storage protocols , and tests how well key framework species will cope with climate change.
Sources:
- University of the Philippines Manila. Best practices in promoting student metal health, AI and climate highlighted in AUN-HPN 2025 Conference. 27-28 November 2025.
- Mahidol University. 13th meeting of the Thai University Network for Health Promotion (TUN-HPN). 31 January 2025.
- Royal Botanic Gargens, Kew. Global Tree Seed Bank: Thailand.