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Establishing a University
Consortium on Global Health
Indonesian-German Cooperation
Workshop for finalizing proposal
Yogyakarta, 10-11 April 2013
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Background
• Bilateral Agreement for establishing center of
excellence under Debt Swap phase II
• “Sexy” health issues in Indonesia-post MDGs:
– Climate change, population, social and economic
changes have impact on human health
– The struggle to contain rising rates of noncommunicable diseases
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• Challenges for universities on research
– Bureaucratic entity, more focused on teaching
than research, research culture is not yet
cultivated
– Uncoordinated research activities within
university and inter-university
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• Gadjah Mada University (UGM) as one of
leading institutions in Indonesia has sufficient
infrastructure and capacity to accommodate
the Research Center.
• For the purpose of social accountability, UGM
will assist other universities to uplift their
research capacity
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Indonesian partner consortium
• Gadjah Mada University (UGM)
– Consortium leader, global health
• Jenderal Soedirman University (UNSOED)
– Climate change impact and mitigation (SPICE project with Uni-Bremen
on marine ecology)
– Cancer
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Andalas University (UNAND)
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Mulawarman University (UNMUL)
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Cancer
Natural biodiversity, herbal medicine
Climate change adaptation and mitigation
Diponegoro University (UNDIP)
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Cancer
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German partner consortium
• Heidelberg University
– Institute for Public Health, Heidelberg Initiative Global Health
– Institute for Pharmacy und Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB)
• German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, Heidelberg
• Munich University
– Institute of International Health
• Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt
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Purposes
• Main Purpose: Establishing a University
Consortium on Global Health
• Specific Purposes:
– To strengthen researches capacity (human resources,
finance and infrastructure) on Global Health at UGM,
UNSOED, UNAND, UNMUL, UNDIP
– To strengthen research coordination and management on
Global Health at UGM, UNSOED, UNAND, UNMUL and
UNDIP
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Purposes
• To strengthen collaborative researches on Global Health
between Heidelberg University, Ludwig Maximilians
University-Munich, DKFZ, Senckenberg Museum, and
University Consortium on Global Health
• To transfer, share and disseminate advances in sciences,
technology, knowledge and skills on Global Health issues
• To contribute to the Indonesian Policy Makers on how to
tackle global health issues
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Purposes
• To collaborate in getting research funds from international
agencies
• To promote sustainability through equal partnership
• To assist the Indonesian Government in achieving MDGs
• To promote collaboration with other funding agencies and
partners, nationally and internationally
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Program Strategy
• UGM will host the Consortium and will take the lead
in developing and running the Program
• The Program will be divided into four phases:
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Phase 1: Proposal preparation and start up
Phase 2: Building the foundation
Phase 3: Internal consolidation
Phase 4: Self-financing and self-governance
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Program Strategy
• Capacity building for researches in line with latest
advances and international standards by German
partners to Indonesian partners
• Exchange and sharing
• Smooth transition from German led phase to
Indonesian led phase
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Main themes
• Climate Change and health: impact, adaptation and
mitigation
• Biodiversity and health, ecosystem sustainability
• Natural disasters and health
• Health transition challenges: NCDs, chronic care etc.
• Cancer
• Health workforce and academic training, research
capacity strengthening
• Translation of research into policy
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Roadmap of the development of
Roadmap of the
development of the
IURC-GH
consortium
2021-2023
2018-2020
Phase 4
2014-2017
Phase 3
2012-2013
Phase 1
Proposal
development
And Start up
Phase 2
Building the
foundation: led
by the German
partners
Internal
consolidation:
led by the
German and
Indonesian
partners
Self-Financing
and SelfGovernance:
fully led and run
by Indonesian
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Phase 1 : 2012-2013
• Proposal Development and start up
– Building Commitment between partner
universities in German and in Indonesia and the
Directorate General of Higher Education
– Appointment of Core Team
– Workshop for finalizing the proposal in Indonesia
– Launching joint collaboration and signing of MOU
between Partners
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Phase 2 (a): 2014
• Building the Foundation: led by the German
partners
– Director of the consortium is from German
– Vice Director of consortium is from Indonesia
– Situational analysis in Indonesia in relation to the
research areas
– Developing roadmap researches for each area
– Needs identification of human resources,
infrastructures and financing in each Indonesian
partner
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– Building research networking for each area
– Capacity building for human resources
(education, training, workshops, attachment,
exchanges, joint supervision)
– Capacity building for infrastructure (procurement
of equipment, building, etc.)
– Developing database and knowledge management
for researches and expertise in Global Health
– Recruiting Doctoral and Post-doctoral Research
Fellows (other funding: Debt Swap Phase I)
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Phase 2 (b): 2015-2017
• Building the Foundation: led by the German
partners
– Building Research Groups in each area :
• Group Leader (German)
• Research Associates/scientists (Indonesia)
– Running initial research projects
– Dissemination of preliminary research results
through publication and international conference
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– Establishment of scientific review committee,
laboratory security, laboratory database, research
quality assessment, Material Transfer Agreement,
etc.
– Establishment of career development for
researchers and fair remuneration schema
– Providing competitive research grants
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Phase 3: 2018-2020
• Internal Consolidation led by German and
Indonesian partners
– Running research projects by Research Groups
(Group Leader: Indonesia, research associates:
Indonesia and German)
– Developing training modules in each area for
distance learning programs in other universities in
Indonesia and ASEAN
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– Providing competitive research grants
– Recruitment junior researchers who have finished
their PhDs to join the research groups
– Providing Post-doctoral Research Fellows
– Developing research proposals
– Application of research results to improve quality
of health services
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– Application of research results to community and
local government (community engagement)
– Application of research results to get intellectual
property rights
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Phase 4: 2021-2024
• Self-financing and self-governance: Fully led and run
by Indonesian
• Advanced activity development
– Further Collaboration with industry
– Development of further research proposals to get national
and international funding
– Expansion of research networking in Indonesia and
International
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– Policy advocacy for regional and national government
– Community engagement for research dissemination and
community education
– International accreditation for laboratories
– Development of advanced research proposals – potential
for noble prize?
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Group Discussion
• Program clusters:
– Climate change and human health
– Non-communicable diseases (cancer)
• Institutionalization and funding
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Research topic for climate change and human health
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Research topic for NCD (cancer)
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Administrative structure
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Thanks
A long step to build
a strong research
culture in Indonesia…..