Fredrick D Purba

📣 The 21st EuroQol Joint Call for Proposals is OPEN until 12 Apr, 23:59 CEST. We invite submissions supporting high-quality research aligned with EuroQol Working Groups. 📄 RFP info: bit.ly/4rMbzeG 👉 Submit here: bit.ly/3Kgqn1V Good luck to all applicants!

From workshops to conferences, 2025 was full of learning & connecting with the EuroQol community 💚 Highlights: EQ-VT training in Nairobi; our paediatric HRQoL workshop at HTAsiaLink & a pre-congress EQ-5D session at @healtheconomics. Fredrick reflects on his experience👇

📣 Save the date! We're heading to Village Hotel Changi, Singapore on the 9th & 10th June 2026 for the #EQAsiaMeeting2026 Join researchers, HTA practitioners, policymakers & EQ-5D users from Asia-Pacific to discuss EQ-5D research. 🔔 Call for Abstracts opens 6 Jan 2026.

Headed to IHEA (@healtheconomics) this month? 👀 Make sure you've registered to join our free pre-congress session on July 19, focused on EQ-5D in the Indo-Pacific. Featuring presentations from Titi Fitriana, Nan Luo & Trudy Sullivan. 📍 Sign up: bit.ly/3TlDcMg

Are you attending #IHEA2025? Interested in learning about the @EuroQol instruments? The valuation approach, new instruments, use in surveys etc. Register now for the *free* pre-congress session to learn from Asia Pacific experts in the field. members.healtheconomics.org/site_event_det…

📘 5. 'Adaptation of the Experimental Version of EQ-5D-Y-5L Into Bahasa Indonesia.' Fitriana et al. EQ-5D-Y-5L adapted to the Bahasa Indonesia language, ensuring child-friendly measurement of HRQoL for Indonesian youth. 🔗 bit.ly/4jwi6Fv 6/

EQ-VT training ahead!📍 On 26 and 27 May, EQ-VT training will be held in Nairobi to support valuation studies in Kenya, Zambia and Nigeria as part of our partnership with @KEMRI_Wellcome. 👉 Hosted by Mark Oppe, @fredrickpurba_ & @addorebecca #HealthEconomics #HTA #HRQoL

@armnth Butuh robot ecovac. Aku baru beli dan tiap malam disuruh kerja banting tulang. Bagus hasilnya.

💡 New paper - Congratulations to the authors of this important paper looking at the validity and reliability of the EQ-HWB and EQ-HWB-S in breast cancer patients. Read it below 👇

EuroQol Academy meeting 2025 in Barcelona @EuroQol Good food, good drink, good friends ❤️❤️

@EuroQol The famous Zhihao Yang!

Great ideas grow when we BOLT ON fresh perspectives! 💡 Our Chair of Education & Outreach Working Group, Zhihao Yang, looks forward to exploring how ‘bolt-on’ advancements are reshaping the EQ-5D at session 3 of the Academy 2025. #EuroQolAcademy2025 #HealthcareResearch

We invite you to submit an abstract for the 42nd EuroQol Plenary 2025 in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹🙌 Submit here: bit.ly/3xSjSvs More info: bit.ly/4imOH0j 🗓️ Deadline: 5 May 2025, 23:59 CEST

cukup sekali menjelaskan, jika tidak di dengarkan, maka itu bukan urusanmu lagi. mulai hargai dirimu sendiri, dan hindari perdebatan yang tidak penting.

balas dendam terbaik adalah tidak ada. sembuhkan, lanjutkan, dan jangan seperti mereka yang menyakitimu.

beberapa orang tidak menyukaimu bukan karena kamu jahat, tapi karena bahagiamu "menyakiti hatinya".

That "skinny" girl lifting the bar recently gained 5lbs trying to overcome her eating disorder. That skinny kid on the bench press is trying to get stronger because he’s tired of being bullied. That young girl doing her workout wrong is new to the gym and struggling with addiction. That angry looking buff guy just lost his job and has no idea how he is going to provide for his family. That "overweight" girl wearing tight clothes has already lost 30lbs and is only just starting to feel confident. That Mom lifting 5lbs has been dealing with postpartum depression and just making it to the gym is a huge win for her. That guy sitting alone on the turf just lost his wife and his entire world is falling apart. Everyone in the gym is fighting demons we know nothing about. Be kind always. 🙏🏼❤️

I don’t speak for all men, but I know most can relate when I say most men don’t like gifts or are too humble to feel deserving of them. But I will say, if you have a good man, one that treats you right and makes you happy, let him know it. Tell him you’re proud that he’s your man and let him know how lucky you are to have him. Making a man feel he is “enough” and deserving of love is one of the greatest gifts you can ever give him. Do that and he’ll give you the world and more.

“apa kesalahan terbesar yang pernah kamu lakukan?” me : berasumsi bahwa semua orang itu bakalan baik.

When I was 11, I told my mother I wanted to go to Oxford, and she laughed in my face. “You?” I didn’t apply to Oxford, because you can’t apply to both Oxford and Cambridge. I didn’t go to Cambridge, because I chose Caltech instead. When I was a first-year PhD student in control systems, my machine learning TA told me not to bother applying to the computer science department, because many tried to do that transition, and didn’t get in. I risked it all by only taking machine learning courses and projects, got in, and ended up working with a star professor in computer vision. When I was in my third year of PhD, I told my labmates I want to move to a larger city, with more of an ecosystem of collaboration, and proximity to other great schools and companies. They told me if I moved, I wouldn’t graduate. I finished my PhD in four years. The point is, there will always be someone too afraid to try what you’ve set out to do, and discouraging you from taking a risk to pursue a higher reward. Don’t let people’s attempts to validate their own life choices dissuade you.