Dr. Elizabeth Pisani
Co-Principal Investigator
Elizabeth is fluent in Indonesian, and holds a PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and an MSc in Medical Demography (both from LSHTM) and, absurdly, an MA in Classical Chinese from Oxford. She holds honorary or visiting posts at six universities, including Universitas Pancasila and Imperial College.
Prof. Katharina Hauck
Co-Principal Investigator
Katharina leads several collaborative studies in low-and middle-income countries. She is co-convener of the economic analysis for the Infected Blood Inquiry in the United Kingdom. Katharina is also a member of several senior expert advisory groups, including of the ‘International Joint Comparators Unit’ advising the UK cabinet office on international evidence in the fight against COVID-19, and an associate editor for the journal ‘Health Economics’.
Prof. Dr. Apt. Yusi Anggriani, M.Kes
Co-Principal Investigator
Sarah N. Njenga
Assitant Project Manager
She completed her MSc. in International Development, with a specific focus on the governance of health insurance schemes in Sub Saharan Africa from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in International Relations and Economics from the University of Birmingham. She will be starting a DPhil in Population Health at the University of Oxford in 2022.
Adrian Gheorghe
Senior Health Economist
Sara Valente Almeida
Research Assistant
She conducted and participated in research projects in Guinea-Bissau, Lebanon, Brazil and Portugal and has previously worked with the European Commission and United Nations, as well as NGOs and Governmental agencies from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
Yunita Nugrahani
Project Manager
She has worked for The BPJS Kesehatan or the National Social Health Insurance Body, The National Team for the Acceleration of Poverty Reduction for the Health Working Group, and currently a visiting lecturer at Faculty of Medicine, Trisakti University, for the health system topics. She has interest in economic evaluation, health technology assessment, and health care quality.
Hesti Ramadaniatiani
Capacity Building and Engagement Coordinator
Hesty Ramadaniati is a senior lecturer, researcher, pharmacist and consultant. She is affiliated with Faculty of Pharmacy Universitas Pancasila (UP) in Jakarta Indonesia where she has served as the Head of Pharmacist Internship Program since 2020. Hesty completed her master and doctoral program in clinical pharmacy from two prestigious Australian Universities (The University of Queensland and Curtin University.) During her postgraduate studies, she participated in numerous clinical internship and training in some hospitals across Australia providing profound foundation for her clinical knowledge and skills.
Her research interests lie in the area of rational use of medicine, justification of clinical pharmacy services, medicine pricing and medicine policy. She has collaborated with many eminent researchers from Indonesia and other countries, and published her research in a range of national and international journals. Further, Hesty has been involved in many studies and policy review project funded by several international funders e.g., Health Mapping, TB Alliance, UNDP and GIZ. Hesty and UP team were assigned by Indonesian National Agency for Food and Drug Control to review the content of Informatorium Obat Nasional Indonesia as one of national reference for drug information.
Ayu Rahmawati
Data Manager
Ayu obtained her bachelor degree from Nutrition Science, Universitas Indonesia and continued her study at Economics, Universitas Indonesia. Her interests and specialties are data analysis, public policies and development economics, especially for health issues.
Mawaddati Rahmi
Data Manager
Rahmi is the Data Manager for the STARmeds study, based at Pancasila University. Previously, Rahmi was a Data Manager for the Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Services Studies (CEPHAS), where she supported the data management for risk flagging of medicines study, in collaboration and funded by Erasmus University Rotterdam.
She is a hospital pharmacist by background and completed her Magister degree at Universitas Pancasila, with a focus on pharmaceutical care area. During her studies at Pancasila, she was exposed to the research world and starting her career over as a resercher, as an enumerator/surveyor for availability of PRB (returned referral) drug in primary health health facility in 5 provinces in Indonesia, a collaboration between Pancasila and the Indonesian Ministry of Health. There was when she learned a lot about conducting a survey and managing data.
Jenny Pontoan
Field Coordinator
Jenny is the Field Coordinator fo STARmeds study. She obtained her Degree as a Pharmacist from 17 Augustus 1945 University. She later continued her Master study at Pancasila University. Her interests are research clinical pharmacy, pharmachoeconomic, social pharmacy, pharmaceutical policies and health issues.
Stanley Saputra
Engagement Manager &
Research Assistant
Stanley is the Engagement Manager for STARmeds study. Stanley’s career focus is in Public health, policy, and health management.
Stanley started his career at a Private Hospital in Indonesia as an Inpatient Pharmacist. His career as a Public Health Practitioner started from working at DKI Jakarta Office of The Governor as a Personal Aide to solve health issues strategically at the regional level. He extended his career which focus on the health discrepancy in remote areas through doctorSHARE. He managed to establish the first floating hospital on a Barge in Asia Pacific, and advocated the regulation of Hospital Ship in Indonesia.
Aside from the study, Stanley is currently a Technical Advisor for Commissien E (Welfare Bureau) at DKI Jakarta Regional House of Representative Council.
Esti Mulatsari
Research Assistant
Esti’s main research fields are in organic and analytical chemistry and computational pharmacy. Her current work as Research Assistant part of STARMeds Project team focuses on laboratory analysis of substandard and falsified medicines.
Reise Manninda
Research Assistant
Reise has completed her Pharmacy Degree at Andalas University and Master in Clinical Pharmacy at Universitas Indonesia. Reise’s main research fields are medicine pricing, clinical pharmacy, and pharmaceutical management.
Her current work as Research Assistant part of STARMeds Project team focuses on the development of impact evaluation methods of substandard and falsified medicines in terms of economic, social, and health outcome in Indonesia.
Vinky Maria
Master Scholarship Awardee
She is currently studying Master Degree in Pharmaceutical business with a research focus in Drugs pricing variability around Indonesia.
Vinky is also working as an IT medical support which responsible to design, analyze, test, and implement pharmaceutical care at Tzu Chi Private Hospital, jakarta.
Faradiba
Research Assistant
William N. Tjandrawidjaya
Data Manager Assistant
Prof. Dr. Roland Bal
Policy Researcher Supervisor
Roland Bal has been the Principle Investigator of a great many projects and has obtained funding for research from ZonMw, NWO, the European Union as well as from key actors in healthcare. He has been involved in setting up academic collaboratives with the Health and Youth care Inspectorate of the Netherlands (IGJ) and with the Netherlands Care Institute (ZiN). Bal has been a member of several committees of the Health Council of the Netherlands and of ZonMw. He has written over 200 scientific papers as well as numerous policy-reports and publications in Dutch professional journals.
Amalia Hasnida
Policy Researcher
After completed her study in 2017, she joined a medicine quality research team, led by Elizabeth Pisani, as a lead researcher of the Indonesian case study of political and economic drivers of substandard and falsified medicines. She is also a Fellow in Quality of Medical Products supported by the United States of Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention Quality Institute working on developing a market risk-based flagging tool to strengthen regulatory post-market surveillance in low and middle-income countries. She has been conducting her USP fellowship research in collaboration with the Faculty of Pharmacy, Pancasila University since 2019. In the STARMeds project, she will lead the policy learning as one of the impact enablers – evaluating knowledge translation and research uptake to policy making. Amalia is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.