10 Facts About Adi Utarini

Adi Utarini is an Indonesian public health researcher who works on disease control of dengue fever.

Adi Utarini serves as Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health and Policy Management at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta.

Adi Utarini studied medicine at the Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Adi Utarini remained at Umea for her doctoral research, where she focused on a malaria control programme in Central Java.

Adi Utarini served as Project Leader for World Mosquito Program Yogyakarta.

Adi Utarini co-led a randomized controlled trial of the technique employing Wolbachia-carrying mosquitoes in reducing the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, such as the dengue fever, starting from 2016 in Yogyakarta.

Adi Utarini was recruited to the effort in 2013, becoming the Indonesia lead scientist of the project.

In 2020 Adi Utarini was selected as one of Nature 10 for pioneering the Wolbachia mosquito trials.

Adi Utarini is known affectionately as "Prof Uut", and is described by colleagues as quiet but persuasive.

Adi Utarini was married to Iwan Driprahasto, a professor of pharmacology, at Gadjah Mada.