Christian Suharlim

In 2013, Suharlim co-founded the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Media Communication Forum, that helps public health professionals write for the media - an initiative that he continued in Indonesia under his organization, The Suharlim Foundation for Public Health Research and Implementation. The Suharlim foundation's mission to improve health policy by information dissemination through the media; strengthen public health programs particularly in the areas of maternal and child health, infectious disease, and access to water and sanitation, and improve access to care for the socio-economically disadvantaged. With a team of 3 physician-researchers, Suharlim has assisted Indonesian physicians in the creation of more than 50 op-eds / media articles. His foundation has also published 11 in-house articles to the media, and supported Suharlim's research interest in using diagnosis decision support system to shift medical delivery tasks to nurses.