The PHC Forum 2023 also became a platform for scientific contributions to support efforts to strengthens primary health care.

CISDI invites the participation of local and international organizations and institutions or consortia to create scientific papers in the form of scoping reviews, editorials, or other methods on various topics related to strengthening primary health care.

With the momentum of 5 years after the global commitment for primary healthcare in Astana Declaration 2018, it is time to reflect on how countries are doing with their PHC.

Puskesmas play an important role in ensuring the process of tracking, testing, and isolation takes place at the smallest level effectively. The centralized and compartmentalized handling of the pandemic tends to make it difficult for Indonesia to get out from the health crisis.

According to the CISDI’s 22 Health Outlook, handling outbreaks in services and financing is inseparable from the health system that the government needs to have an integrated system

CISDI is pushing the government to improve the regulatory framework for dealing with outbreaks, as stated in the 2022 Health Outlook that was published on January 27, 2022.

During the six-month intervention, the PUSPA Program combined community-based approaches and cross-sector coordination to strengthen outbreak response efforts through Puskesmas.

Awareness on non-communicable diseases to teachers and children is necessary in preventing health problems in the future. Thus, the Center of Indonesia’s Strategic Development Initiatives (CISDI), Plan Indonesia, and Yayasan Lentera Anak committed to hold training on trainers (ToT) as a part of.