Introduction

Standing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH) has a broad scope in public health including global health issues, health policies, health promotion and education. SCOPH works through health promotion and education as well as diseases’ prevention to the society. SCOPH empowers medical students to develop their skills, knowledge, and potential of being skillful health professionals towards making a healthier community in the realization of improving the nation’s health.

Goals

• To improve awareness and knowledge of the community about public health.
• To trigger Indonesian medical students’ awareness about public health related issues.
• To facilitate Indonesian medical students’ activity in public health to provide opportunities for medical student’s to be involved in a real work concerning public health.
• To create programs (of public health) that are fit with Indonesia’s current conditions and needs.
• To cooperate and to build partnership with governmental organization and/or non- governmental organization that focus on public health issues.

Mission Statement

To promote the development of medical students in Indonesia regarding Public Health issues through an international and national sharing knowledge network, projects management, community-based learning, capacity building, advocacy, exchanges placements and access to external learning.

Field of Work

• Health Promotion
• Social and Environmental Determinants of Health
• Universal Health Coverage
• Health in All Policies
• Global Health, International Health, and Public Health