Kent Buse

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

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

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

3 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

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

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

about 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.