Wiku Bakti Adisasmito

Professor Wiku Adisasmito holds a PhD in Environmental Health and Policy from the Colorado State University, Colorado, USA. He is an expert in health policy and infectious disease control. He has been appointed as a Professor of health policy at the Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, since 2010. In addition, he has served as an Adjunct Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health at Tuft University and an Affiliate Professor of Environmental Health Science at the University of Minnesota since 2018.  

In his early career, he worked as a researcher at the US CDC Division of Vector-Borne and Infectious Diseases, Fort Collins, Colorado, and the US CDC- WHO Dengue Reference Laboratory, San Juan, Puerto Rico. During the Avian Flu pandemic in 2006- 2007, he was assigned as an expert panel member at Indonesia's national task force for Avian Influenza control. Then in 2008-2010, he was also appointed as a member of the Asian Partnership for Avian Influenza Research (APAIR). In the same period, he served as the expert panel member of the National Committee for Avian Influenza Control and Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza. 

After the Avian Influenza outbreak ended, Professor Wiku served as an expert staff member of the National Commission for Zoonoses Control in Indonesia. He also serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Asian Partnership for Emerging Infectious Disease Research, and a member of the Regional Core Group Eco-health Field Building Leadership Initiative Southeast Asia. He is currently coordinating the Indonesia One Health University Network (INDOHUN). 

During the COVID-19 response in Indonesia, he becomes the Coordinator of the Expert Team for the Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Mitigation. Furthermore, The President Republic of Indonesia mandates him as the Government Spokesperson for the COVID-19.