On 28-30 October 2023, The STARmeds sent seven delegates to the International Society to Improve the Use of Medicines (ISIUM) conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with this year's theme "Improving Use of Medicines: Connecting, Learning, Moving Forward". The conference aimed to raise awareness and promote the best use of medicines ...

On 18-22 October 2023, The STARmeds team consisting of Prof. Yusi Anggriani, Dr. Hesty Utami and Esti Mulatsari MSc. attended The American Society of Tropical medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) Annual Meeing in Chicago USA. The meeting is designed for researchers, government and public health officials, military personnel, travel clinic physicians, ...

On October 5 2023, STARmeds held a SAG Meeting as part of the STARmeds dissemination series. This meeting was the fifth meeting in the last three years that aimed to gather various inputs and opinions of policy related to drug quality at the global level experts. The meeting took place ...

Taking place at Thamrin, South Jakarta, STARmeds organized one-day activities with PEMO (Working Group on Drug Quality Estimation) as the first agenda, followed by the study dissemination afterwards on October 4, 2023. At PEMO, one of the topics discussed was input and responses from stakeholders related to the sustainability of ...

As part of the STARmeds Study Dissemination agenda, the team organized a training on medicine quality for 24 journalists in collaboration with Maverick on October 3 2023. Lead by Prof. Yusi Anggriani, Dr Elizabeth Pisani, Dr Hesty Utami, this training aims to share knowledge on medicine quality issues for journalistic ...

STARmeds’s Coordinator for Capacity Building and Public Engagement, apt. Hesty Utami R, M.Clin., PhD, had been selected for an oral presentation in the GHR Member presentation session on ‘Communicating research for policy impact’ with an abstract entitled ‘Continuous Engagement with Intersectoral Stakeholders Facilitates Research Translation and Implementation into Health Policy’. ...

To enhance collaboration, the STARmeds team leader paid a visit to the British Embassy located in Kuningan District, Jakarta. The meeting aims to share experiences in managing research funds from the British government or the National Institute for Health and Care Research.

To increase the capacity to write research articles, the STARmeds team held article writing training in Ubud, Bali for two weeks. This training was led by the Co-Principal Investigator of the STARmeds study, Elizabeth Pisani, M.Sc., MA, PhD, and was attended by the entire STARmeds core team.