Dr Khin Myo Wai

Assistant Lead Researcher 2

Dr. Khin Myo Wai is an Assistant Lead Researcher of Myanmar Knowledge Management Co., Ltd specialized in household surveys, research data collection, data analysis for health, justice and livelihood issues. She began her career as a Tutor at Department of Statistics in Yangon University of Economics in 2009 and left in 2013. In 2016 May, as a Research Manager, she joined Ethnography project conducted by Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation (EMRef) in collaboration with World Bank, which studied Qualitative Social and Economic Monitoring in terms of qualitative form. She was awarded by her first bachelor degree in Population Studies by Yangon University of Economics in 2005 and Master degree in 2007. In 2016, she earned Ph.D in Demography awarded by College of Population Studies in Chulalongkorn University at Bangkok in Thailand, where the topic of her thesis was 'Impact of Social Support Networks on Loneliness among the Older Persons in Myanmar'. She published the paper on "Prevalence of Loneliness among the Older Persons in Myanmar" in Journal of Demography organized by College of Population Studies. Most of research she carried out is quantitative research while she has experience in qualitative data analysis.