Sri Suryawati

           Born in 1955. National of Indonesia. Former Head of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. Member of the Executive Board of the International Network for the Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD), WHO Expert Advisory Panel for Medicine Policy and Management. Director, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology and Medicines Policy Studies, Gadjah Mada University. Coordinator, Master Degree Program for Medicine Policy and Management, Gadjah Mada University.

           Specialist in pharmacology (1985); doctoral degree in clinical pharmacy (1994). Worked in clinical pharmacokinetics and bioequivalence testing (since 1984), drug evaluation and new drug application (since 1987) and medicines policy and promoting the quality use of medicines (since 1990). Member of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (2002 and 2006). Member of the WHO Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines (2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007). Member of the United Nations Millennium Project Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis and Access to Essential Medicines (Task Force 5) (2001-2005). Supervisor for over 100 postgraduate theses and research works in the areas of medicine policy and management, improving quality use of medicines in health facilities, community empowerment to improve self-medication, and clinical pharmacokinetics (since 1996). International consultant in essential medicine programmes and promoting the rational use of medicines in Bangladesh (2006-2007), Cambodia (2001-2005), China (2006-2007), the Lao People's Democratic Republic (2001-2003), Mongolia (2006-2007) and the Philippines (2006-2007). International consultant in medicine policy and drug evaluation in Cambodia (2003, 2005 and 2007), China (2003), Indonesia (2005-2006) and Viet Nam (2003). Facilitator in various international training courses in medicine policy and promoting the rational use of medicines, including: WHO and INRUD courses on promoting the rational use of medicines, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (1994), Manila (1996), Dhaka (1997), New Delhi (1999), Padang, Indonesia (2000), Tehran (2002 and 2003), Islamabad and Bhurban, Pakistan (2004), and Brunei (2007); the WHO and Management Sciences for Health international courses on drugs and therapeutics committees, Penang, Malaysia (2001), Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2001), Mumbai, India (2002) and Brunei (2007); and WHO/Boston University international courses on drug policy issues for developing countries, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2002), and Tashkent and Samarkand, Uzbekistan (2003). Author of numerous lectures presented at international conferences, including the following: "Indicator-based monitoring strategies to improve drug use in health facilities", Symposium on Rational Drug Use, World Conference on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Florence, Italy (2000); "The role of clinical pharmacology in promoting rational drug use in developing countries", World Conference on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Brisbane, Australia (2004); "Strategies to promote quality use of medicines: best mix of strategies for improving medicine use, case studies from developing countries", National Medicines Symposium, Brisbane, Australia (2004); "Decentralization as a challenge to improve the quality use of medicine: Indonesia experience", World Conference on Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Brisbane, Australia (2004); "Innovative strategies to improve prescribing: the pleasant journey from field-test to institutional programs", World Conference on Improving Use of Medicines, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2004); "Strategies to improve the use of medicines: what makes them effective and sustainable?", EURO Conference: Mastering Anti-Infective Therapies, Paris (2005); "Irrational use of medicines damages health and wastes resources: what can we do about it?", 58th World Health Assembly, Geneva (2005); "Problems of medicine use in the region", Asia Social Health Forum, Penang, Malaysia (2005).

           Member of the International Narcotics Control Board (2007).