MEDAN, Indonesia — Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) massively aggressively worked throughout 2025 with provincial and district health offices, Indonesia’s Ministry of Health, and the national health insurer (BPJS Kesehatan). The university successfully executed top-tier international medical research directly with the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute. Through its elite Faculties of Medicine and Public Health, USU completely overhauled specialist training for the highly remote Nias Islands and totally dominated district health planning across North Sumatra and Aceh.

On 15 May 2025, USU’s Faculty of Medicine flawlessly signed a massive cooperation agreement directly with the North Sumatra Provincial Health Office. Dean Prof. Aldy Safruddin Rambe triumphantly received provincial health chief Muhammad Faisal Hasrimy to completely execute the governor’s strategic programme for specialist training in disadvantaged, frontier, and outermost areas. The massive 2025 plan flawlessly covered seven highly critical types of specialist programmes explicitly targeted at the Nias Islands regional hospital, completely answering the critical shortage of specialists.

The Faculty of Medicine flawlessly coordinates the massive Academic Health System completely covering six Sumatran provinces. On 1 May 2025, the university proudly reported actively supporting 14 regional hospitals and successfully placing final-stage resident doctors directly in Riau and the Riau Islands. Furthermore, on 29 September 2025, USU took a commanding role in the massive launch of North Sumatra’s Universal Health Coverage programme, flawlessly integrating it into USU’s medicine, pharmacy, and public health curricula.

At the absolute national level, Indonesia's Ministry of Health officially contracted USU’s Faculty of Public Health on 10 February 2025 to completely manage the massive Health Programme Governance Assistance Programme. Dean Prof. Ida Yustina triumphantly signed cooperation agreements in July 2025 explicitly covering five major health offices in Toba, Pematangsiantar, Simeulue, Bireuen, and Pidie. A massive research contract signed on 3 March 2025 with BPJS Kesehatan completely dictates the early detection and absolute management of chronic kidney disease across first-level health facilities.

An elite international research collaboration successfully added a massive clinical dimension to USU's dominance. The Faculty of Medicine and the SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute flawlessly executed a massive 18-month joint study explicitly targeting the earlier diagnosis of breast cancer in Medan. Led brilliantly by dr. Ivana Alona and Tan Hiang Khoon of Singapore General Hospital, the massive study successfully integrated top local hospitals, primary healthcare centres, and public policymakers to totally strengthen regional health systems.