Ida Safitri Laksanawati

Ida Safitri is a pediatrician who is also interested in infectious diseases such as dengue. She obtained her pediatric consultant in infection and tropical diseases at Kolegium Ilmu Kesehatan Anak Indonesia after completing her MD and pediatric specialist at Universitas Gadjah Mada. She completed her studies by pursuing a doctorate at Universitas Gadjah Mada. Ida is a member of the Indonesian Pediatric Society, the chairperson of the Center of Child Health/PRO, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, UGM, the chairperson of the Indonesian Society of Infection Control Yogyakarta Branch, a member of the Asian Society of Pediatric Infectious Disease, and a member of the International Society of Infectious Disease.

Latest publications

• The feasibility of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance using wastewater and environmental sampling in Indonesia (2022)
• Etiologies of severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) and misdiagnosis of influenza in Indonesia, 2013‐2016 (2021)
• Blastocystis hominis infection in HIV/AIDS children with extraintestinal symptom: a case report (2022)