Welcome to all the conference participants, invited speakers, and distinguished guests to the 1st International Conference on Global Health (ICGH) here in Jakarta. Universitas Indonesia is so proud to host this conference.

Interconnected and sistemic health problems lead to challenges on global health. High numbers of drugs resistance, challenge to overcome burden of the non-communicable diseases, HIV/AIDS and TBC outbreaks, clean water availability, and adequate sanitation closely relate to  poverty, starvation, qualified education, economic growth and proper works, energy, industry, and infrastructure problems. To face all of these issues, global health needs to move forward in an integrated, transparent, and holistic action to achieve a better global solution.

Universitas Indonesia as one of the biggest universities in Indonesia truly understands of the importance of global health. This awareness encourages UI to actively involve to seek global solutions by holding this conference. The 1st ICGH is a collaboration of 5 (five) faculties of Health Sciences Cluster within Universitas Indonesia: Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Public Health, Faculty of Nursing, and Faculty of Pharmacy.

A number of interesting topics are being covered by speakers in this conference. Several topics that will be highlighted and discussed are health systems (incl. universal health coverage; management of healthcare services; health policy and financing; etc), global security and disaster, mobile health and new technologies, communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, mental health, nutrition, youth health, ageing and quality of life, drug design and development, environmental and occupational health, and maternal and child health.

I wish you a richly rewarding conference and a recharging experience on our beautiful capital city, Jakarta.