Achmad Naufal Azhari is an epidemiologist and environmental health specialist with expertise spanning public health, vector ecology, toxicology, epidemiology, and communicable diseases. He is currently the Senior Adviser for Policy & Advocacy at the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), which he joined in July 2025 after a decade with the World Health Organization (WHO), serving as Technical Officer for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) at the WHO South-East Asia Regional Office and as National Professional Officer for NTDs at WHO Indonesia. He has led regional and national initiatives to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, soil-transmitted helminthiasis, schistosomiasis, leprosy, yaws, and other skin NTDs; contributed to the development of strategic documents at both national and regional levels; supported the finalisation of key WHO guidelines; introduced innovative treatment and preventive chemotherapy protocols; conducted programme reviews; and mobilised donation medicines for NTDs elimination. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was part of WHO Indonesia’s Incident Management Team and led the Population-based Age-Stratified Sero-Epidemiological Investigation for SARS-CoV-2 Infection (a WHO Unity Study), alongside a COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness study.

 

Naufal earned both his Bachelor and Master of Public Health degrees from the University of Indonesia, graduating as the faculty’s best graduate in 2014. Over his tenure with WHO, he has mobilised and managed grants from partners such as USAID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Sasakawa Health Foundation. His work has strengthened preventive chemotherapy coverage, introduced advanced surveillance approaches, and enhanced national capacity to sustain progress towards disease elimination— expertise he now applies to advancing GLIDE’s mission to accelerate the end of preventable diseases worldwide.