How Is Health Promoting University Strategy to Handle the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Abstract

The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected many countries, including Indonesia. Many parties, including educational institutions, have to deal with pandemic conditions. This paper aims to describe how the academic institution, Jenderal Soedirman University, is handling the pandemic situation. Various activities led by the COVID-19 Unsoed Task Force undertook several efforts to respond to the pandemic, such as conducting active supervision for all academics, mentoring teams, educating, conducting real work lecture programs, and forming COVID-19 joint volunteer teams. During data monitoring, several activities were completed such as handling patients in surveillance, tracking, and follow-up. Other efforts in the education field were also carried out to keep running the activity, but with a joint security procedure COVID-19 as well as several policies set such as changing the way of teaching to be online. Best possible efforts have been made by the university to respond to the pandemic quickly and effectively.