The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Since its emergence in Asia in 2019, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica. We have now reached the tragic milestone of more than two million deaths, and the human family is suffering under an almost intolerable burden of loss. But the pandemic is much more than a health crisis, it's also an unprecedented socio-economic crisis. Stressing every one of the countries it touches, it has the potential to create devastating social, economic and political effects that will leave deep and longstanding scars. Therefore, building resilience is mandatory to strengthening community capacity towards this pandemic.

We are delighted to welcome you at the 2nd Syedza Saintika International Conference on Nursing, Midwifery, Medical Laboratory Technology, Public Health, and Health Information Management to be held in Padang, West Sumatera, Indonesia, on September 23rd, 2021. The theme of this conference is “Building Community Resilience: Overcoming Immunity Issues Towards Covid-19 Pandemic”.It is expected to be a great opportunity and an inspiring occasion for all Health care professionals from all related fields, including education, researchers, and students, to deliver knowledge and disseminate new findings of health study.

This scientific occasion will be an opportunity forum that encourages the emergence of academic culture in developing knowledge, proposing discourse of the latest issues, and discussion. We will integrate various fields and aspects of health science from various perspectives of education, research, and practices that will reshape better understanding and comprehensiveness of the knowledge. Therefore, this educational event expected that research from diverse backgrounds and countries would contribute a lot in the development of global health and healthy communities to be realized.

Padang, 23 September 2021
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Eliza Arman