I am a public health physician with a PhD in public health, health systems and policy. I am a senior lecturer and researcher at the School of Medicine and Psychology (SMP), College of Health and Medicine, ANU. I hold current and past commissioned research projects from various international agencies, including the WHO, ASEAN Office, Ministry of Health of Indonesia, DFAT Australia, and Ford Foundation.

More recently, I have successfully secured several research grants from the ANU Indonesia Project, the ANU Global Research Partnership Scheme, and Rural and Remote Health Service (RaRMS Ltd). In 2022 (ongoing to now), I was involved as one of the ASEAN Primary Investigators (PIs) for the ASEAN Sero-Serological Surveillance Study on COVID-19 Vaccination, involving 6 countries in South East Asia (Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam). In Indonesia, this study is designed as a community-based cohort study with 12 months follow-up.

I was also part of PIs on two large population-based survey to measure true coverage of vaccination coverage for Japanese Encephalitis and COVID-19 in Indonesia, involving more than 14 thousands respondents using recall survey and validation methods.

My research has been published in various public health journals, including Family Practice, Lancet, Journal of Development Effectiveness, Australian Journal of Primary Health, Australian Journal of Rural Health, Healthcare Journal, Public Health and Preventive Medicine Archive, Social Sciences Journal, Infectious Disease Reports, International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, Asia pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, and others. I have also published various critical commentaries on The Conversation, East Asia Forum, and Inside Indonesia on topics about health/public health in Indonesia.