Patraporn Bhatarasakoon (Tungpunkom) is a Professor of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, and Director of the Thailand Centre for Evidence-Based Health Care, a JBI collaborating centre. She is a global JBI trainer in systematic reviews, evidence implementation, and GRADE guideline development.

Patraporn holds a Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) from Burapha University, a Master’s in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in Nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. She also completed postdoctoral training in child and adolescent mental health and PhD student mentoring at King’s College London. Her research focuses on chronic mental illness, child and adolescent mental health, clinical guidelines, and systematic reviews, with a particular interest in supporting caregivers and promoting wellness-based relapse prevention. She also supervises postgraduate students in primary research, innovation, and evidence implementation to strengthen best practice in clinical settings.