Professor
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University, Indonesia
She is currently a Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Andalas as a chairperson of Postgraduate Public Health Study Program.
She has experience in community organizational development and experience working with partnerships and local governments in Indonesia. She has been regularly involved in the Regional Planning Board Office of West Sumatra Province as a consultant and has done some monitoring and evaluation, especially for health policy for more than 8 years. She has managed health program work to improve human resources capacity through education, training, and information dissemination, and provided opportunities to develop the potential of individuals and the community.
Some short courses are attended to enhance my capability in the empowerment of the community such as Capacity Building on HIV and AIDS control, Tobacco Control Advocacy Training, Workshop Advocacy, and Development Cigarette Band. Besides that, she attended monitoring and evaluation analysis in public health problem courses, such as Analysis of Health and Nutrition Data from Low-Income Countries, at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, USA.
She has been involved in a lot of research, funding by WHO, Global Fund, and USAID; as an invited speaker both inside and outside the country; authoring over 10 international articles and writer of a few books with topics such as social determinants of health, tuberculosis, health public policy on morbidity of pneumonia.
She was also involved in the national and international networks of professionalism such as the Indonesia Public Health Association and Asia Pacific Academic Consortium of Public Health, the National Epidemiologist Network, the Indonesian Medical Doctor Association, the Indonesian One Health University Network and South East Asia Health University Network, and Internasional Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Membership.