UNG Researcher Pushes Health Governance Towards Net-Zero Emissions — From the Sea

Darilaut – Gorontalo State University (UNG) researcher Prof. Yowan Tamu is pushing health service governance at Community Health Centers (Puskesmas) in Gorontalo Province toward net-zero emissions. Prof. Yowan, one of the researchers with Partnership for Australia – Indonesia Research (PAIR), explains that the research focuses on developing policy and governance instruments that enable Indonesia’s primary health care system to transition to net-zero emissions.

“We are working to build an evidence-based and practical regulatory framework to be applied at the Puskesmas level, particularly in Gorontalo and North Sulawesi,” said Prof. Yowan, who presented the material “Green Health: Community Health Center Net Zero Transition Regulatory Framework” in the auditorium of the Faculty of Economics and Business at UNG on Monday (19/5).

“The impact we hope to achieve is not only academic, but policy-oriented and directly relevant to strengthening health governance.”

The research is targeted to yield several strategic impacts, including evidence-based policy recommendations for the net-zero transition in primary health care services, and a framework of incentives for decarbonising health facilities. In addition, a regulatory model that can be adopted by provincial and national health authorities, up to anthropological approaches so that the regulations are aligned with the cultural context and local conditions of the community.