How did you choose your proposed course and institution?

I want to be a person who could give advantages for many people, especially the
people in my community. As a doctor, I treat my patients individually, often with the
same health problems. For these kinds of condition we need to see it as a public
health problem, and a different approach should be initiated. I think it is more
effective to find the base of these problems so that we can get the best solution
which able to reach more people. It is why I choose to study public health.

As infection is still become a serious issue in my country, Im interested to study

public health in infectious disease. The understanding of epidemic pattern and
critical analysis could be applied to the disease control. I want to get an advance
skill in public heath aspect of infectious disease response, and prevention.

I found the UNSW Master of Infectious Disease Intelligence is the most suitable
program for me. This is one of a few world class universities with public health
program that focusing on infectious disease. In addition, UNSW is one of the high
reputed universities in the world. By 2016, its ranked 49 th in the QS World Raking
and 78th in Times Higher Education World University Ranking.

How will the proposed study contributed to your career?

Studying Master of Infectious Disease Intelligence will help me understand more

about infectious disease, gives a new approach and perspective to solve these
problems as a community entity. This program foster sophisticated understanding
and application of multidisciplinary knowledge including infectious disease
intelligence, outbreak investigation, immunization and tropical disease control.

This study will equip me as a doctor with knowledge and skills to treat my patients
comprehensively, not only the curative but also in the preventive effort. Moreover,
this approach will reach more people because it could be applied in range of setting,
including communities, and risk group. I believe, the infectious diseases control and
prevention could decrease the number of mortality and morbidity caused by
infectious disease in the community.

How have you contributed to solving a challenge and implementing

change or reform? (Be specific and include what aspect/s of your
leadership knowledge, skills and practice you consider to be well
established and effective; which people or organization you worked with
to solve the problem and what creative method were used?

A few years ago I joined the Indonesia International Workcamp (IIWC) organization
and had a chance to become the campleader. This is a volunteering organization
which facilitates participant across the world to work together and doing some
project related to health, social or environment issues in Indonesia. At that time, my
friends and I was working with medical students from KEIO University, Japan in
bilateral group workcamp. Our goal is to solve the health problems of street children
in my town.

First, we did a survey to look for the children main health problem. Apparently, skin
infection is the disease oftentimes infecting the children. Our analysis reveals that
source of the problem is the lack of hygiene. So, for the rest time of our project, we
tried our best to promote the importance of self-hygiene to the children. We tried
many kind of method to interest the children, mostly, we create a educational game
to deliver the messages. This method is quite effective, it is shown by the increase
number of children join our project and their enthusiasm to practice self-hygiene.

From these experiences, there are so many things Ive learnt. Health problem isnt
just a disease to be cured; it is linked to many factors, such as: social, level of
economy, and education. We need to understand the problems comprehensively so
we can solve it to the root, prevent it from getting worse and reduce the fatality. As
a campleader, I also learn skills to make coordination between the camp members,
stakeholder and the streetchildren. I learn how to manage every available source
and handle every obstacle to run our project.

Please

a) Give up to 3 practical examples of how you intend to use the

knowledge, skills and connections you will gain from your
scholarship. Possible tasks can be personal and/or professional; and
b) List any possible constraints you think may prevent you from
achieving these tasks

a) After finishing my education, the first things I want to do is going back to my

country and join the non or governmental organization working in infectious
disease control. I want used the knowledge and skills Ive got to develop a
better program in infectious disease control and prevention. One of the issues
to be my concern is childrens health. Often, parents dont realize the danger
threatening their children, sometimes from the family member itself. So,
second thing I want to do is to increase the awareness of children health and
make parents do some measures to protect their children. For example,
infectious disease frequently spread by air, like influenza or chickenpox virus,
even droplet from people with TB could be spread into air while coughing, so,
it is important to get people aware of wearing a masker when they are sick. A
campaign should be initiated to start a masker-wearing habit. Finally, the
third thing I want to do is to have the program maintained and evaluated
frequently. To make some programs success, consistency is an important
thing, and subsequent actions in some period of time should follow the prior
program. It is useful to establish the goal of the program.
b) A public health program which purposing many people and sometimes need a
long term maintenance and evaluation will cost a substantial of money. I
think that would be the biggest burden to establish this kind of program. But I
believe, a good and thrifty financial management will do the work. Also,
considering the great benefit of these measures should not prevent us to
start this effort.