• Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam
• Royal University of Law and Economics, Cambodia
• Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
• Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia
• Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
• Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
• National University of Laos, Lao PDR
• Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
• Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
• Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
• Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
• Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
• Yangon University of Economics, Myanmar
• University of Mandalay, Myanmar

• University of Yangon, Myanmar
• Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
• De La Salle University, Philippines
• University of the Philippines, Philippines
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Singapore Management University, Singapore
• Burapha University, Thailand
• Chiang Mai University, Thailand
• Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
• Mahidol University, Thailand
• Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
• Can Tho University, Vietnam
• Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

• Naresuan University, Thailand
• Thammasat University, Thailand
• Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand
• Walailak University, Thailand
• Mahasarakham University, Thailand
• Khon Kaen University, Thailand
• King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand
• Kalasin University, Thailand
• Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand
• Nakhon Phanom University, Thailand
• Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Thailand
• Srinakharinwirot University, Thailand
• King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand

• University of Phayao, Thailand
• Silpakorn University, Thailand
• Sripatum University, Thailand
• Hatyai University, Thailand
• Princess of Naradhiwas University, Thailand
• King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
• Rangsit University, Thailand
• Songkhla Rajabhat University, Thailand
• Osaka University, Japan
• Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies,Philippines
• De La Salle University-Dasmarinas, Philippines
• Universidad de Sta Isabel de Naga, Inc, Philippines

Message from
President of Mahidol University
Chair of the AUN-HPN International Advisory Committee

It is my great honor and privilege to present the updated version of the Healthy University Rating System for 2024.

It is my great honor and privilege to present the updated version of the Healthy University Rating System for 2024.

I want to congratulate all ASEAN University Network university members who contributed to the successful development of our innovative rating tool. From the initial idea of a Healthy University Framework back in 2016 to our present day – this achievement would not have been possible without your continued dedication and efforts over the years.

We recognize the significance of representing multiple members from across the universities and institutes, so we encouraged stakeholders to actively engage in this rating system tool. This is an important time for all universities in the ASEAN region to come together to improve the health and well-being of our communities.

Mahidol University is dedicated to building and sustaining a healthy learning environment and being an exemplary leader in effective regional collaborations. We look forward to working with all university members to ensure that we strive to have the very best educational environment.

Prof. Piyamitr Sritara, MD, FRCP, FACP
Acting President of Mahidol University
Acting Chair of the AUN-HPN International Advisory Committee

Message from the AUN Executive Director

I would like to take this opportunity for us to reflect upon the fact that for 10 years since its establishment in 2014, the AUN-HPN has been leading the charge in promoting health initiatives throughout ASEAN. I am truly astonished at the work that they have put forth ever since, and in my time serving as the AUN Executive Director, I have seen firsthand the positive impact the AUN-HPN has given to the higher education community. Through their endeavours in the past decade, it has resulted in one of the greatest contributors to the growth of health promotion in the ASEAN region, the Healthy University Rating System (HURS).

First of all, I would like to give my greatest appreciation to the AUN-HPN for creating the HURS, a self-assessment tool which has been instrumental in providing an effective guideline for universities that are striving to improve the quality of life for its communities. HURS utilises methodologies from AUN-HPN’s own Health University Framework (HUF), ensuring that the self-assessment process involves monitoring all crucial aspects of a university’s policies, infrastructure and practices in order to pinpoint areas of improvement. By employing a rating system rather than a ranking system, it fosters a cooperative environment instead of a competitive one among universities, where institutions are encouraged to share their best practices to promote health and wellness.

My greatest thanks also goes out to the universities that have collaborated with AUN-HPN and participated in the annual HURS procedure. Without the active contributions of our partner universities and its communities, the efforts in health promotion would have been an extremely arduous task. Therefore, I think it is safe to say that to improve the quality of life for our communities, it is a mission that we must achieve together. Promoting health across ASEAN and further beyond can not be done alone, we must move forward as a network, as a community.

Taking it all into account, on behalf of the AUN Secretariat, I would like to express my gratitude to AUN-HPN once more for their decade long commitment in health promotion. The HURS Version 2024 contains the latest improvements to their self-assessment tool and process with contributions from AUN-HPN Core and Associate members. The yearly updates to HURS, its workshops, and AUN-HPN’s own conferences for health promotion is a testament to the dedication in their vision and mission in providing communities good health and wellbeing. It is delightful to see after 10 years, AUN-HPN continues rock steady in their commitment.

Choltis Dhirathiti, Ph.D.
Executive Director of ASEAN University Network

Message from
Chief Executive Officer
Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth)

It has been 3 years since the first launch of Healthy University Rating System (HURS). Since then, HURs has become an important tool for universities to monitor and evaluate the progress and success of the implementation of AUN Healthy University Framework (HUF) and holistic and comprehensive health promotion policies and program in universities.

In order for HURs to be more updated and efficient, Mahidol University as the AUN-HPN Secretariat Office, and network members provide users the revised version of HURs guideline book every year. I believe that the 2024 version will be very helpful for universities to become healthy universities as we expected.

Universities play critical roles in our working model or Tri-Power Strategy by contributing evidence-based knowledge to drive policies and to empower the society leading to the effective health promotion actions in Thailand and our region. Therefore, on behalf of ThaiHealth, I am delighted that we have been a part of AUN-HPN’s journey for nearly a decade and worked hand in hand since 2016.

ThaiHealth is pleased and honored to continually support AUN-HPN not only for the benefit of faculty, students and university staff but also the surrounding communities as well. We realize that the leadership role of universities can influence national policy development in various areas and health promotion is a critical area that will help countries be successful in attaining long-term health for all.

Dr Pongthep Wongwatcharapaiboon
Chief Executive Officer
Thai Health Promotion Foundation Thailand

Resolution on the Adoption of Healthy University Rating System (HURS)

at the 6th AUN HPN International Advisory Committee Meeting
Report of the 6th AUN HPN International Advisory Committee Meeting 5th November 2020 ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University

Agenda 6.3: Development of Healthy University Rating System (HURS)

Prof. Dr. Chatchalerm Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya, Chairman of Committee on HURS Development presented the Development of Healthy University Rating System (HURS) using the conceptual framework of HURS system criteria of evaluation set by consensus of the members in the capacity building workshop in 2019. It has combined ideas from QS star rating system and scoring system. Proposed score and point calculation were based on five-point Likert rating scale system and the total score is 1000 points for all 22 areas. The rationale of how to assess universities on different backgrounds and not only to compete, similar to the rating of quality of hotels, the QS star rating system combined with Universitus Indonesia’s Green Metric was proposed to create a methodology of HURS. He reported that in the initial trial, the members would participate in online submission of data during January – February 2021. Proposal for submission of evidence of activity and verification would be conducted from March to April 2021.

The Meeting agreed that the HURS invitation letters will be drafted and sent to AUN-HPN member universities in order to invite them to participate in the HURS trial. Members are requested to participate in the process. Eventually, the final version of HURS will be proposed for endorsement in a Rector’s meeting in the near future; and will be followed by promotion activities for all universities in ASEAN and beyond.

The meeting adopted the development of the Healthy University Rating System (HURS).

AUN’s Adoption of Healthy University Rating System (HURS)
Report of the 12th ASEAN University Network Rectors’ Meeting 9th July 2021

Hosted online (Zoom) by
the ASEAN University Network Secretariat and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM)

Agenda Item 5.2: Healthy University Rating System (HURS) developed by AUN-Health Promotion Network (AUN-HPN)

Prof. Dr. Chatchalerm Isarankura-Na-Ayudhya, Dean of the Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University and Chairman of the working group for HURS Development and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Phudit Tejativaddhana, Director of ASEAN Institute for Health Development, Mahidol University and Executive Director of AUN-HPN presented the progress of development of Healthy University Rating System (HURS) using the AUN Healthy University Framework which was adopted by the AUN during the 9th AUN Rector’s Meeting in July 2017. He requested the rectors’ meeting to consider the following:

1. To endorse HURS as a tool of the AUN system to monitor the progress and the achievement of the Healthy University Framework implementation;
2. To provide recommendations and assistance for further improvement of the tool;
3. To engage in the utilization of the tool, both during the testing period and the regular use in the future (as a tool for promote health in the university);
4. To advocate the wider use of HURS in other higher educational institutions.

The Meeting acknowledged the official launch of the Healthy University Rating System (HURS) to be conducted in August 2021 and encouraged all AUN members to support it on a voluntary basis.

The Meeting adopted the Healthy University Rating System (HURS).

1. What is Healthy University Rating System (HURS)?

Healthy University Rating System (HURS) is a tool used to track the progress and success of a health promotion university. The HURS is developed based on the Healthy University Framework (HUF) of ASEAN University Network – Health Promotion Network (AUN-HPN). The HUF document is available and can be downloaded from the Internet through the link shown below. HURS contains 46 self-assessment questions based on the 22 areas listed in the Healthy University Framework.

https://info.aun-hpn.or.th/document/file/Healthy%20University%20Framework%202023.pdf

2. Who can participate?

At the initial phase, 30 AUN-HPN membered universities and associated universities can participate in the annual Healthy University Rating System. Following this, all universities worldwide with strong intention to be healthy universities will be invited to join the HURS platform.

3. What are the benefits?

Universities that participate in the HURS will have the possibility to increase their international visibilities and networking. It is expected that universities that enroll in the HURS network can share their best practices on the healthy university aspects with others through international or local workshops held by the AUN-HPN or local host universities.

4. How can universities enroll in the HURS?

Each university can study the requirement and detailed contents of the tool in this guideline book. Subsequently, each university is requested to assign a relevant person to be responsible for the completion of the online survey, and provide his/her name together with the email address to our email address aunhpn@mahidol.ac.th. This step is necessary to generate username and password to access the HURS website. The AUN-HPN Secretariat Office will send the link and password for signing into the online HURS questionnaire to key respondents and data approver of each participating university. The key respondent or a group of respondents will be responsible for filling out the online questionnaire and sending the completed questionnaire to the data approver, being authorized by the rector or president of the university, to recheck the completed questionnaire before submitting it to the AUN-HPN secretariat office.

Please be informed that the system has been officially opened on August 16, 2024 and the data entry period will end on November 15, 2024

5. What is the methodology?

The questionnaire is categorized into 3 main groups: system and infrastructure (SI), zero tolerance areas (ZT), and health promotion areas (HP), as shown in Table 1. The indicators of three categories and their corresponding points are demonstrated in Table 2.

Table 1 Categories of self-assessment questions used in the HURS

Table 2 Categories and indicators suggested for use in the 2024 rating

Table 3 Examples of score calculation for each question

The composite score is classified into 5 categories, 1 to 5 stars as follows:

1 – 199 = ⭐

200 -399 = ⭐⭐

400 -599 = ⭐⭐⭐

600 – 799 = ⭐⭐⭐⭐

800 – 899 = ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

>= 900      = ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐➕

Remark For the completion of each item of HURS, please declare and provide data for each faculty/ institute to support your evidence of the latest yearly (annual) data that you have by uploading the pdf format of your achievements onto our website or providing any URL where the data is available at your university’s website. Evidence can be displayed as data, pictures, graphs, tables and description. Please provide explanation of evidence in English and highlight the text or information that relates to each question in an easy-to-follow manner. It is noteworthy that lack of evidence might result in a declined score.

The AUN-HPN Secretariat will send the completed questionnaire to two reviewers who will evaluate the answers based on the evidence submitted to the online HURS questionnaire. The consensus between the reviewers will secure the evaluation and corresponding stars to the participating universities will be granted. At the initial phase, please be informed that all the scores and feedback will be kept confidential.

6. How to contact us?

Contact us at the following address:

AUN-HPN Secretariat Office
ASEAN Institute for Health Development,Mahidol University 999 Phuttamonthon Sai 4 Road, Salaya, Phuttamonthon, Nakhon Pathom, 73170, Thailand

Tel: +66 (0) 2441 9040-3 ext. 72

Website: https://aun-hpn.or.th

Email: aunhpn@mahidol.ac.th

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