The Faculty of Public Health (FPH) Universitas Indonesia (UI) received a visit from the journal team of the National Family Planning Coordinating Board (BKKBN). This visit intends to explore partnership cooperation in the development of journals, both in procurement of manuscripts and as a reviewer. Acceptance of visits was represented by the Public Health Journal (National Public Health Journal) https://journal.fkm.ui.ac.id/kesmas, and the Journal of Biostatistics, Population and Health Informatics (BIKFOKES) https://journal.fkm. ui.ac.id/bikfokes/index.
At this meeting, both FPH UI and BKKBN saw the need for collaboration and the existing MoU to be developed. Towards this direction in the near future a Cooperation Agreement will be issued which will become an umbrella for more concrete cooperation. Collaboration was agreed in the form of exchanging findings in manuscripts to be reviewed by each institution so as to provide new insights into public health science.
This collaboration meeting took place on Friday, July 28, 2023. The Editor in Chief of the Public Health Journal, Dr. Al Asyari Upe, S.K.M., M.P.H.; Head of the Journal of Biostatistics, Population and Health Informatics (BIKFOKES), Prof. Dr. dr. Sabarinah, M.Sc.; Head of Research and Development Center for KB and KS as well as Editor in Chief of the BKKBN Journal, dr. Hariyadi Wibowo, S.H., M.A.R.S., and staff. In addition to the collaboration meeting, the BKKBN team also had the opportunity to visit the Public Health Journal and the Bikfokes Journal at the FPH UI campus.
As is well known, FPH UI has a Public Health Journal that has been indexed Sinta-1 and Scopus Q4 and is managed by a team under the faculty. In addition, there are 9 journals that have been indexed and managed by departments at FPH UI. (sf)
