Kent Buse

Kent Buse is a professor at Monash University Malaysia, in Kuala Lumpur. He is a political economist who has published widely on global health governance and health policy analysis. He is co-founder and co-CEO of Global 50/50. He was head of strategy at UNAIDS for over a decade and taught at Yale University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Latest Articles

As the US exports ideological harm in health aid, here’s how to resist it

21 days ago // Opinion: Global Health

Opinion: As the Mexico City Policy expands, U.S. aid now polices values as well as services. Silence may feel strategic — but it’s already causing harm. Here’s a global health resistance agenda.

How to make United Nations high-level meetings work for global health

5 months ago // Opinion: Global health

Opinion: U.N. high-level meetings are considered a rare and important opportunity to raise the political priority of a global health issue; realizing that potential will require a series of reforms.

Opinion: Gender equality in salaries is another frontier for global health

over 1 year ago // Gender equality

Increased gender balance in global health organizations’ leadership represents hard-won progress, but it is not enough. Pay equity is next, and that means women need to lead larger organizations.

Opinion: COVID-19 and the neo-public health movement — bringing back the public

over 5 years ago // COVID-19

The world is in the midst of another deadly wave of the pandemic. Ahead of the United Nations' summit on the COVID-19 pandemic this week, global health experts explain why we can’t afford the same old approach.

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