DrCindy Kesty

Cindy is a WHO/TDR Clinical Research Leadership Fellow at Infectious Diseases Data Observatory, University of Oxford. Specifically, she will work on a malaria in pregnancy research project. She is interested in gaining more knowledge and skill about research and evidence-based medicine.

Before joining IDDO, Cindy worked as an Obstetrician and Gynecologist in Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia. She treated many healthy pregnant women and also those with diseases, such as hepatitis B, HIV, syphilis, tuberculosis, dengue hemorrhagic fever, etc. She graduated from Obstetrics and Gynecology Study Program at Faculty of Medicine Universitas Sriwijaya in 2022 and as a medical doctor at the same university in 2016. 

Cindy is a member of National Task Force of Reproductive Tract Infection Indonesian Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Their main concern is the antimicrobial resistance and triple elimination eradication program conducted by the Indonesian government for all pregnant women. It consists of Hepatitis B, HIV, and syphilis. Moreover, other endemic diseases in their country become their concern, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and DHF.