Santi Kusumaningrum adalah Direktur dan Peneliti Utama PUSKAPA (Pusat Kajian dan Advokasi Perlindungan dan Kualitas Hidup Anak) – sebuah lembaga riset dan advokasi yang berbasis di Universitas Indonesia. Ia juga merupakan Adjunct Assistant Professor for Population and Family Health di Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, dan mengajar di Departemen Kriminologi FISIP Universitas Indonesia. Melalui PUSKAPA, Santi melakukan penelitian sebagai basis bertindak, mengubah bukti ilmiah menjadi proposal kebijakan, melakukan advokasi dan implementasi program, dan memobilisasi kapasitas kaum muda untuk menguatkan sistem perlindungan anak, tata kelola data, dan akses pada keadilan, agar semua anak menikmati kesempatan yang sama untuk berkembang. Ia mendapat gelar sarjana dari Kriminologi, magister dari Sosiologi di Universitas Indonesia, dan meraih gelar Doctor of Public Health dari Columbia University Amerika Serikat. Di dunia akademik, Santi berfokus membangun ketelitian ilmiah dan etika dalam bahasan keadilan sosial, dan berupaya memajukan ilmu pengetahuan lewat riset, pengajaran, mentoring, dan menghasilkan publikasi yang dapat diakses cuma-cuma.

• Kusumaningrum, S., Siagian, C., & Beazley, H. (2021). Children during the COVID-19 pandemic: children and young people’s vulnerability and wellbeing in Indonesia. Children’s Geographies, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2021.1900544
• Kusumaningrum, S., Patunru, A., Siagian, C., and Bennouna, C. (2021). A Child’s Growth is a Nation’s Growth: Children’s Well-being and Inequality in Indonesia. In Barichello, R., Patunru, A., & R., Schwindt (Eds.), Globalization, Poverty, and Income Inequality: Insights from Indonesia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press
• Baumont, M., Wandasari, W., Agastya, N. L. P. M., Findley, S., & Kusumaningrum, S. (2020). Understanding childhood adversity in West Sulawesi, Indonesia. Child Abuse & Neglect, 107, 104533. doi:https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104533
• Arifiani, S. D., Handayani, S. A., Baumont, M., Bennouna, C., & Kusumaningrum, S. (2019). Assessing large-scale violence against children surveys in selected Southeast Asian countries: A scoping review. Child Abuse & Neglect, 93, 149-161. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.05.005
• Duff, P., Kusumaningrum, S., & Stark, L. (2016). Barriers to birth registration in Indonesia. The Lancet Global Health, 4(4), e234-e235. doi:10.1016/ S2214-109X(15)00321-6
• Jackson, M., Duff, P., Kusumaningrum, S., & Stark, L. (2014). Thriving beyond survival: Understanding utilization of perinatal health services as predictors of birth registration: A cross-sectional study. BMC International Health and Human Rights, 14(1). doi: 10.1186/s12914-014-0038-3
• Goldman, P. S., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Bradford, B., Christopoulos, A., Ken, P. L. A., Cuthbert, C., . . . Kusumaningrum, S., . . .Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S. (2020). Institutionalisation and deinstitutionalisation of children 2: policy and practice recommendations for global, national, and local actors. The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. doi:10.1016/S2352-4642(20)30060-2
• Siagian, C., Wandasari, W., Sahputra, F., Kusumaningrum, S. Strategic yet delicate: the dilemma of involving health workers in facilitating birth registration in Indonesia. BMC Health Serv Res 19, 889 (2019) doi:10.1186/s12913-019-4594-z
• Amanda, P., Tieken, S., Davies, S., & Kusumaningrum, S. (2019). The Juvenile Courts and Children’s Rights: Good Intentions, Flawed Execution. In M. Crouch (Ed.), The Politics of Court Reform: Judicial Change and Legal Culture in Indonesia (pp. 267-286). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108636131.012
• Siagian, C., Arifiani, S., Amanda, P., & Kusumaningrum, S. (2019). Supporting Children, Blaming Parents: Frontline Providers’ Perception of Childhood’s Adversity and Parenthood in Indonesia. Social Sciences, 8(2). doi:10.3390/socsci8020064
• Williams, A., Kusumaningrum, S., Bennouna, C., Usman, R., Wandasari, W., & Stark, L. (2017). Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Understand Motivation to Register Births in Lombok, Indonesia. Children & Society, n/a-n/a. doi:10.1111/chso.12262
• Bennouna, C., Feldman, B., Usman, R., Adiputra, R., Kusumaningrum, S., & Stark, L. (2016). Using the Three Delays Model to Examine Civil Registration Barriers in Indonesia. PloS one, 11(12), e0168405. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0168405

• Melalui PUSKAPA, Santi telah mengelola berbagai hibah riset dan kemitraan strategis termasuk dari Columbia University, Australian Government program AIPJ dan KOMPAK, USAID, UNICEF, The Asia Foundation, World Bank, UNDP, ILO, dan sebagainya.
• 2017. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Award for Excellence in Global Health A school-wide award presented annually to Doctorate level student for academic excellence and the potential for future contributions in global health.
• 2019. Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Award for Excellence in Global Health A school-wide award presented annually to Doctorate level student for academic excellence and the potential for future contributions in global health.