ALERTAsia is an alliance of physicians, scientists, technicians, and laypersons committed to the idea of diminishing the medical, social and economic risks created by endemic infectious diseases and the emergence of new infectious disease threats in Southeast Asia. They are united in the firm belief that keeping the risks of emerging and re-emerging infections under control requires the disciplined application of tried and true scientific methods, as well as exploring practical new methodologies through inspired biomedical research aimed specifically at these risks.
ALERTAsia establised as a non-profit foundation for promoting human health and is organized under the laws of the Republic of Indonesia.
ALERTAsia Foundation serves as a focal point and partner for organizations seeking to execute research, education and training activities directed towards understanding and mitigating the threat of endemic, emerging and re-emerging infections in Southeast Asia.
In doing this, they support their various organizations, laboratories, and researcher partners in applying appropriate molecular biological, immunological and epidemiological technologies to the problem of emerging and endemic microbial agents of human disease.
They seek to facilitate the creation of a network of cooperating laboratories in the region reporting reliable and verifiable findings relevant to emerging and re-emerging infections of humans.
Their office is located in Central Jakarta, just within minutes from the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology, the Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia, and the Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit (EOCRU), three of their main collaborators.
Their past and current projects have brought them to: Papua, West Sumba, Central Java, North Sulawesi, North Sumatra, and West Java
ALERTAsia Foundation recognizes conspicuous gaps in the technical capacity of public and private health institutions in Southeast Asia to reliably characterize and responsibly report diagnoses of human infections. ALERTAsia Foundation further recognizes the unnecessary medical, social and economic risks such gaps create. ALERTAsia Foundation believes that the application of appropriate and standardized biotechnologies in the laboratories, field and clinics of regions at risk will provide an essential shield against epidemic and pandemic infections. They believe that biotechnology is a powerful weapon, and it must be wielded against their formidable microbial enemies with wisdom and forethought.
ALERTAsia Foundation serves as a focal point for research, education and training supported by various public and private donors seeking to contribute to the rational and systematic building of the technical, social and political capital needed to cope with emerging infections and the risks these pose to health and to social and economic development in Indonesia and Southeast Asia in general.
Diminish the medical, social and economic risks created by the emergence of infectious diseases in Southeast Asiain general.
