He has worked mostly in the malaria research field for 22 years. He was previously involved as a data manager in numerous antimalarial drug clinical trials, in-vivo studies, and community-based malaria surveys in high-endemic areas in Indonesia and Vanuatu.
Since his involvement with the production of high-quality standardized malaria slides for teaching and research purposes, while he was at the Department of Parasitic Diseases at the US-military international biomedical research laboratory in Jakarta, he attended an intensive training on malaria diagnostics.
His assignment as a malaria microscopist started when he joined the efficacy studies of primaquine against Plasmodium vivax relapse in Indonesian soldiers in Central and East Java, Indonesia.
