Agnes Kurniawan is a professor in Parasitology in the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia (UI) and a Clinical Parasitology Consultant at the Parasitology Laboratory, Universitas Indonesia. She obtained her Ph.D. in Immunology from the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, UK, in 1996 and was certified as a medical specialist in Clinical Parasitology in 2004. Agnes has been an advisor for the National Task Force for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis, a member of the health lab accreditation committee in the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Republic of Indonesia, and a committee member in HIV opportunistic infection in the MoH of the Republic of Indonesia until now. Her research interests include filariasis and opportunistic parasitic infections: Cryptosporidium, Blastocystis, Toxoplasma. Between 2007 and 2012, she was awarded the DelPHE and PMI2 British Council fund for research study in opportunistic parasites in HIV and set up the clinical parasitology laboratory service and Clinical Parasitology Study Program at UI.