Iqbal Elyazar

Iqbal Elyazar is a biostatistician in the Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit (EOCRU) at the Eijkman Institute in Jakarta, Indonesia. At EOCRU, Iqbal leads the Geospatial Epidemiology Program. He is also the Indonesia Country Officer for the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). For nearly two decades, Iqbal has focused on biostatistics, disease surveillance, spatial epidemiology and malaria elimination strategies. He earned a DPhil in Disease Mapping from the Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford and completed an MPH in the Department of Health Informatics at the University of Indonesia. Iqbal held a Wellcome Trust Fellowship of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in 2012.  

A health worker wearing protective suit and patients exercise at the Patriot Chandrabhaga Stadium which has been converted into a quarantine house amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia
Governance

Indonesia Charts an Innovative Path on COVID-19 Vaccination

by Ali H. Mokdad, Laksono Trisnantoro, Samuel Ostroff, Ruri Syailendrawati, Iqbal Elyazar

Poised for an ambitious vaccine rollout, the country must use all tools available to mitigate the worst of the pandemic