Patama Vapattanawong is among the few demographers in Thailand. She received her B.Sc. in Nursing and Midwifery from Mahidol University, Thailand, in 1983; M.Sc. in Community Medicine from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, in 1993; and Ph.D. in Demography from Mahidol University, Thailand, in 2002. She is now a Professor at the Institute for Population and Social Research, Mahidol University, teaching many courses related to Demography, such as Technique of Demographic Analysis; Indirect Technique for Demographic Estimation; Population, Health, and Community Health Services Development. She is keen on using large datasets to study demographic transition in Thailand and other related issues. Her research interests are population health and mortality, demography of aging, and population projection. Now, she is the president of the Thai Population Association (TPA), the vice president of the Thai Association of Population and Social Researchers (TAPSR), and a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).