Wiku Adisasmito is a professor of health policy with expertise in health systems and prevention of infectious diseases. Currently he serves as a Secretary of Universitas Indonesia Board of Trustees, as an Adjunct Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health in Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, USA, as an Affiliate Professor in Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, USA, and as a lecturer at the Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia. He is also the Coordinator of Indonesia One Health University Network. Prof Wiku teaches several courses related to health policymaking and analysis. He has been carrying out public health research on infectious diseases since 2008 resulting in publications on important Emerging Infectious Diseases.
His frontier academic activities on EID and global health have led him to coordinate Indonesia One Health University Network (INDOHUN) that connects 20 universities and 34 health faculties (medicine,veterinary medicine, and public health) in Indonesia which concerns in one health workforce. INDOHUN is part of South East Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN), which connects to more than 60 universities in South East Asia in similar fields. Under INDOHUN program, he also coordinates the One Health Laboratory Network (OHLN) that currently has 12 university-based lab members to support the rapid identification of zoonotic diseases emerging among human and animal populations. His service as the coordinator and steering committee of Asia Partnership on Emerging Infectious Disease Research (APEIR) that bridges collaboration among Asian researchers in 6 countries has connected those one health networks to a bigger CORDS network, Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance that links 5 other regional networks in Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. His academic leadership has connected the pool of global scientists and policymakers relevant to one health in improving global health security