Ivan Rahmatullah,Master’s degree in Public Health at Emory University

Posted January 10th, 2010 by admin

Ivan Rahmatullah is a medical doctor who is a faculty member at Airlangga University in East Java. He did volunteer work in the areas of AIDS, child nutrition, reproductive health awareness, basic health care for orphans, and reproductive care for disaster management; and research in the areas of malaria transmission, voluntary counseling and testing, and avian influenza. As a result, he concluded that it is necessary to integrate modifying behavior and health systems with an international health perspective.

He sees that the responsibility to solve health problems in one country is also the responsibility of others. In this way the distribution of health resources belonging to government will be more fair, effective, and efficient.

Airlangga University does not have any lecturers with background in international health. Ivan is now studying for a master’s degree in Public Health at Emory University, ranked by the U.S. News and World Report in tier 1, the top 20 national universities in the U.S. His specialization is International Public Health. The goal of the program is to understand and reduce global inequities in health and well-being, and to improve health status and delivery systems around the world through teaching, interdisciplinary research, program design and evaluation, service, and inspiring public-private and civic sector engagement in social action.