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Kent Buse

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Prof of Health Policy. Co-CEO of #GlobalHealth5050. Ex Chief Strategy #UNAIDS. #HealthySocieties #Sourdough baker. Bereft of canine companion.

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Kent Buse @kentbuse.bsky.social · May 4

#GenderedHealthPathways — capturing differences in exposure to risk, care-seeking & clinical cascade.

Using sex #disaggregateddata to identify & address health inequities

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📊 Visualisations: genderedhealthpathways.org/app/

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24d

Sad (but not surprised) to read the latest Global Health 50/50 report, amidst turmoil in global health, erosion of democracy, withdrawal from multi-lateralism, aid cuts, attacks on science, DEI, human rights

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · Jul 14

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

A heat map of diabetes does not improve access to nutritional food or reshape the commercial landscape promoting ultraprocessed foods in low income areas. A wearable heart rate monitor tracking variability cannot counter harms of exploitative labour or precarious housing

Precision public health must get political

As the Precision Public Health Asia conference approaches, Kent Buse and colleagues caution that the specialty risks becoming a high tech fix for deeply political problems In The Time Machine by HG W...

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · May 24

🧵1/ The UK government plans to cut international aid while ramping up defence spending. But must we choose between defence or aid? In a new @bmj.com piece, @kentbuse.bsky.social & I argue that we must invest in both. Here’s why. 👇

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · Jul 15

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(They are still perfect)

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