COVID-19 management requires long-term and ongoing monitoring of all levels of the population, whether they are well, sick, or have recovered. Clean and healthy living behaviors and health protocols must be practiced in a disciplined and consistent manner, wherever and whenever they become people's living habits. As a result, a strong health team is required, including family doctors, who will collaborate with other professional staff and local policymakers and will be supported by an integrated information system for monitoring and evaluation purposes, adapting to changes in human and host characteristics, viruses as infectious agents, and environmental conditions.

Dr. Retno Asti Werdhani, popularly known as Asti, is a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia (FMUI), Department of Community Medicine. She was born in Jakarta on August 25, 1975. Since joining as a lecturer, she has been very interested in strengthening primary care health services, particularly family medicine. This passion drives her to pursue educational management as well as practice experience and clinical management.

Working as a panel physician for the American, Canadian, Australian, and Belgian embassies until 2018 before taking on the job of Manager of Basic Health Services at Universitas Indonesia Hospital until 2020. She was a general practitioner as well as a community service and education coordinator in the Department of Community Medicine and a member of the Medical Education Unit for 12 years before becoming Head of the Community Medicine Department at FMUI from 2022 until the present. National tasks have also been accomplished as members of the COVID-19 National Task Force and the Committee of the National Board Examination for Indonesian Doctors.