Professor Kent Buse

Professor Kent Buse, PhD, is a political economist who has published widely on global health governance and health policy analysis. He is Professor of Health Policy and Director of Programme Development at the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine, Monash University Malaysia.

He is also Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Global 50/50. He served as Head of Strategy at UNAIDS for over a decade and has taught at Yale University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Kent believes in the democratization of opportunity and seeks to contribute to the development of a new social contract based on justice, fairness and rights for all. He has published widely on power, rights, gender, equity and governance in health, applying these lenses to a range of urgent global issues. He believes in fixing systems rather than fixing people.

Kent has approximately 200 publications and is particularly proud of the world-leading textbook Making Health Policy, now in its third edition.
He is currently working on a new book on influencing health policy in a post-truth environment.

Kent loves to cook and is part of the Real Sourdough Movement.