dr. Risalia Reni Arisanti, MPH

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND IMMUNIZATION

IKM Building, first floor, room Farmako St, Sekip Utara, Sleman, DI Yogyakarta 55281
https://acadstaff.ugm.ac.id/risalia.reni.a
risalia.reni.a@mail.ugm.ac.id
risaliafetp@gmail.com
Bidang ilmu Epidemiologi, ranting ilmu Epidemiologi Penyakit Infeksi, Epidemiologi Penyakit Tropis

Profile

Lecturer

Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Population Health

dr. Risalia Reni Arisanti,MPH, is a lecturer and public health researcher at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada. She obtained her medical degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada and completed a Master of Public Health in the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) with a USAID PRESTASI scholarship. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Universitas Gadjah Mada.

Her expertise lies in infectious disease epidemiology, malaria elimination, immunization, outbreak investigation, and health surveillance systems. She has extensive professional experience working with national and international institutions, including the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, Global Fund, CHAI, and the Indonesian Ministry of Health. She has been actively involved as a consultant, technical working group member, trainer, and researcher in malaria elimination strategies, vaccine assessment, COVID-19 surveillance, and outbreak response across Indonesia.

dr. Risalia has participated in and led numerous outbreak investigations, including malaria, anthrax, foodborne disease, and COVID-19. Her scholarly work includes publications in international peer-reviewed journals such as BMJ Global Health, BMC Infectious Diseases, PLOS Global Public Health, and Narra Journal, as well as contributions to textbooks and policy-oriented publications on epidemiology, program evaluation, and disease elimination. In addition to her research activities, she is actively engaged in teaching, training, and capacity building in field epidemiology and good health research practice at national and regional levels.

Education

Research

dr. Risalia’s research focuses on communicable diseases and immunization particularly malaria and outbreak potential diseases.
dr. Risalia is active researcher in Center of Tropical Medicine UGM. Currently, dr. Risalia as Co-PI malaria prevalence survey in Keerom Papua for 2 period (2019 and 2021) and bottleneck analysis toward malaria elimination for 14 stagnant districts in Kalimantan and Sulawesi. Both researches to support effort of malaria elimination in Indonesia. Beside that, she become Co-PI for seroprevalence survey of COVID-19 in some area in Indonesia.
dr. Risalia previously worked as health officer for malaria/EPI in UNICEF Indonesia with duty station in Aceh (2008-2009), North Maluku and South Sulawesi (2010-2014). She also active in various outbreak investigation and surveillance in disaster area. For her master thesis, she conducted systematic review on food poisoning outbreak in Indonesia 2000-2015, partnership with FDA Indonesia.
dr. Risalia is passionate about the translation of the research findings into health policies and programs and its monitoring and evaluation. In the future, she would like to support more the effort of malaria elimination in Indonesia, prevention and control infectious diseases in Indonesia.
Area of research/interests: malaria, communicable diseases, outbreak potential diseases (include the foodborne), surveillance, immunization.

Service Activities

dr. Risalia is active as malaria technical working group in national level for period 2021-2023, member of COVID-19 task force in Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing of Universitas Gadjah Mada. She is also active in tele-counseling group with KAGAMA to support education during self-isolation COVID-19 patient.

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Publications