Aditia Nugroho is a policy analyst with more than 10 years of experience in social health insurance. Aditia has extensive knowledge and experience related to universal health coverage advocacy, health system strengthening strategies including health financing and strategic health purchasing.
As a senior program officer in health financing at Results for Development (R4D), he currently acts as a member of the taskforce team in Tuberculosis financing innovation in Indonesia under USAID Health Financing Activities (HFA). He was directly involved in the public-private partnerships strengthening to expand quality services, developing information systems for health financing, as well as planning and making cost projections in financing innovation activities at the primary care level. Aditia led the preparation of a novel health financing business process including recruiting and providing trainings to the claim verification team. Previously, he had provided technical assistance as the health financing advisor in the USAID Tuberculosis Private Sectors (TBPS) and successfully implemented the modification of the contractual process between the National Health Insurance (NHI) Agency and health facilities to improve Tuberculosis service access.
Mr. Nugroho’s career has taken him to rural Indonesia where he has seen firsthand how health inequities affect populations living in poverty. In his past work for Indonesia’s National Health Insurance, he was deployed to remote areas in Indonesia, where he learned how decentralization policies can be used to improve healthcare access. His past work has also included managing reimbursements and analyzing health service utilization at hospitals and working with legislature members on local budgeting support for the NHI.
Mr. Nugroho is affiliated with the International Health Economics Association (IHEA) and Patient Classification System International (PCSI) forum, and TDR Global for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases.
Mr. Nugroho is a medical doctor who holds a master’s degree in international public policy and management (MIPM) from the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, specializing in health policy and management. He is a native speaker of Bahasa Indonesia and also speaks fluent English.
Articles and other publications
Policy Analysis: High Costs National Health Insurance (NHI) Implementation at Hospital Level: Indonesia’s Case (Optimizing Costs Containment at Hospital Level). Author: Aditia Nugroho (presented in Patient Classification System International-PCSI Conference Copenhagen Denmark November 12-15, 2019).
Program Formulation: Indonesia: Setting a Path Towards a Three “E” (Effective, Efficient, and Equal) Primary Health Care System. Authors: Aditia Nugroho, Eko Arisyanto, and Tuncay Serdaroglu (accepted in International Health Economics Association-IHEA Congress 2021)
Piloting Non-payment Interventions in Tuberculosis Strategic Health Purchasing: Early Experience from Indonesia. Authors: A. Nugroho, S. Saragih, F. Hafidz, F.A. Putri,Y. Farianti, T. Pakasi, N. Badriyah, G. Putra, S. Sukarni, I. Syed (presented in Union Conference on Lung Health Paris France November 14-19, 2023)
Opinion and Editorial: Tuberculosis is the Enemy of People’s Welfare (Tuberkulosis Musuh Kesejahteraan Rakyat). Author: Aditia Nugroho. Jakarta: Kompas.id (March 2022). https://www.kompas.id/baca/artikel-opini/2022/03/23/tuberkulosis-musuh-kesejahteraan-rakyat
Opinion and Editorial: The Stories of National Health Insurance Reimbursement Rates Adjustment (Hikayat Penyesuaian Tarif JKN). Author: Aditia Nugroho. Jakarta: Kompas.id (January 2022). https://www.kompas.id/baca/opini/2022/01/04/hikayat-penyesuaian-tarif-jkn