[2] In 2020, he received a distinguished alumnus award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

As Director of Programme Management at WHO SEARO he was instrumental in supporting Member Countries in their health development efforts.

[5][6] As public health physician, he was a chairperson of the Preventive and Social Medicine Society of the Myanmar Medical Association.

In 2014, during the government of former General Thein Sein, he was a member of the committee that drafted two of the four bills designed to regulate religious conversion and population-control measures in Myanmar.

[7][8][9] On 22 March 2016, he was nominated as Minister for Health and Sports in President Htin Kyaw's Cabinet, which was Myanmar's first democratically elected civilian government since 1962.