Herni is a mental health professional who started her career since 1998 when she joined in the Mental Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing Universitas Indonesia. Since then, she has been enthusiastic to satisfy her passion around the development of mental health in her country and worldwide.

As a lecturer, she has been teaching to undergraduate and post-graduate students related to her expertise including communication for health professionals, mental health nursing, family interventions in mental health practice, and ethics in health care. Her teaching role is not only limited in classes, but also in clinical placement. To add, the teaching tasks also cover other units that she is qualified such as qualitative research and English for nurses.

Herni is also excited to conduct research which is relevant to her interest in interventions for families of people wit mental health problems, disaster nursing, stress and stigma of infectious diseases (Covid-19), addiction, and mental health care for marginalized population. Herni’s research activities will continue due to her role as the supervisor for her undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking research projects. Some of these research products have been published in the national or international journals.

Herni is now holding a position as the Manager of Coorporation and Alumny Affairs Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Indonesia. She is engaged in research divisions of some organizations such as the Indonesian Mental Health Nurses Association and Indonesian National Nurse Association, and Secretary of Green Crescent Indonesia, a NGO in addiction prevention. She is also one of editors in a number of national Journals.

Recently, Herni has been awarded by the Ministry of Research and Technology for outstanding contribution to research knowledge in 2020, published an article in Health Expectation – a high impact journal, entitled Exploring the potential use of patient and public involvement to strengthen Indonesian mental health care for people with psychosis: A qualitative exploration of the views of service users and carers; and as the 3rd outstanding lecturer of Universitas Indonesia year 2020 for accomplishment in teaching, research and community engagement