Bachti Alisjahbana, dr., Sp.PD-KTPI, PhD. Ilmu Penyakit Dalam

Founder

Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia in Jakarta in 1990. He earned a specialist degree from the School of Medicine, Padjadjaran University in Bandung, and a doctorate in immunogenetics from the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 2007. He joined the WHOCCPMC in 2001 while working at NAMRU (Naval Medical Research Unit, USA), participating in a group studying the history of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever among factory workers.

He has a keen interest in infectious diseases, particularly their occurrence in rural communities, and has served as a community health center physician in remote areas of West Papua New Guinea. He was also a research associate for the Tanjungsari Growth Study, a cohort of approximately 3,500 respondents recruited in 1988–1989 and followed from birth.