Dr. Oktaria research explores a wide range of epidemiological and clinical research in child health with over ten years of research experience. She is currently a co-PI of SARS-CoV-2 surveillance using wastewater and environmental sampling in Indonesia, an early warning system to flag a community outbreak to inform the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia; a landscape analysis on maternal nutrition program in Indonesia; and a screening program for critical congenital heart diseases in neonates in Dr Sardjito Hospital. Dr. Oktaria involves as one of the UGM co-leaders that assists the Ministry of Health and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to perform a landscape analysis on maternal nutrition program in Indonesia. The project explores the current maternal nutrition-related policy and programs, to accelerate action in maternal nutrition and provide recommendations and strategies on best investments in maternal nutrition programs in the Indonesian context, by also looking considering the pre and during COVID-19 periods.

She is passionate about childhood diseases that cause major burden of childhood morbidity and mortality in Indonesia and LMIC, with interest in acute respiratory infections-pneumonia, diarrhea, infectious diseases, vitamin D deficiency, vaccine-preventable diseases, and vaccination. She is also affiliated with the Center for Child Health-Pediatric Research Office (CCH-PRO) UGM and has a well-established collaboration and work closely with Murdoch Childrens Research Institute/MCRI (Australia), The University of Melbourne (Australia), Monash University (Australia), and PATH (USA).