Stevie Ardianto Nappoe is currently pursuing his master’s in public health at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, specializing in health care policy. His bachelor’s degree from Nusa Cendana University in Kupang was in public health, too, though then he specialized in nutrition.

As a research assistant at the Center for Health Policy and Medical Research at Nusa Cendana Steve is acutely aware of the inequities in the rural health care system in Indonesia and hopes the graduate study in the US will be beneficial to the Center upon his return