Indah S Widyahening is a professor in the Department of Community Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of Universitas Indonesia (FMUI). After completed medical training in the FMUI, she obtained an MSc in Clinical Medicine – Family Medicine from the School of Medicine, University of the Philippines. In 2016, she received a PhD in Epidemiology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and among the first who received recognition as Family Medicine Primary Care Specialist from the Indonesian College of Family Medicine in 2020.
Dr. Widyahening has won multiple awards for her research, which focuses heavily on primary care delivery and non-communicable diseases and acknowledged as Diabetes Champion by the World Diabetes Foundation in 2022. She is currently the Head of Primary Health Care Research and Innovation Center, Indonesia Medical Education and Research Institute (IMERI), and affiliated to the Harvard Chan School of Public Health as a Bernard Lown Scholar in Cardiovascular Health. She is also a contributor of the NCD Risc collaboration, a global network of scientists that provides rigorous and timely data on major risk factors for non-communicable diseases for all of the world’s countries, coordinated by WHO Collaborating Centre on NCD Surveillance and Epidemiology at Imperial College London. She serves as an Expert Committee member on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines of the World Health Organization since 2021 and appointed as an Expert in Primary Care Integration and Health Promotion in the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia.