Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta (UMS) in collaboration with Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia launched Health Promoting University on Saturday, October 21, 2021. This event will take place online (on a network) via Zoom Meeting.

Health Promoting University is an initiation of health promotion or a healthy living movement in a higher education setting.

In his remarks, the Chancellor of UMS, Prof. Dr. Sofyan Anif, M.Si said, in this fast-paced era, humans lack physical activity, carry out strenuous daily activities, and unhealthy eating patterns make the body susceptible to disease. campus environment,” said the Chancellor, Saturday (23/10).

For that, he continued, universities which are gathering places for people of productive age must participate in improving a healthy living environment by supporting the Health Promoting University (HPU) program.

“By supporting the Health Promoting University program, we can improve a healthy living environment,” said Anif.

Head of Health Promoting University from UGM, Prof. Dra. Yayi Suryo Prabandari, M.Sc., Ph.D hopes that with this program UMS lecturers and education staff can be more productive and UMS students can also be productive and become healthy and educated graduates.

“The hope of this program is to create a healthy environment and make lecturers, UMS education staff, and students more productive and healthy,” said Yayi.