Public Health

Asia Leaders

Jay Bhattacharya Is Rewriting How America Funds Medical Science. The Portfolio Test Starts Now

Jay Bhattacharya has secured room to reshape the world’s most influential biomedical funder. His challenge is to make risk-taking, replication and real-world data produce better science without turning grant selection into an opaque policy instrument.

Asia Leaders

Budi Gunadi Sadikin Has Turned Indonesia’s Health Reform into a Procurement-and-Utilisation Test

Indonesia is pairing free health checks with one of Asia’s largest medical-equipment and digital-health programmes. Budi Gunadi Sadikin’s banker-style procurement discipline now faces the harder task of sustained treatment across 6,000 inhabited islands.

Asia Leaders

Sania Nishtar Is Rebuilding Gavi Around a US$3 Billion Funding Gap

Gavi entered its 2026–2030 strategy with more than US$9 billion pledged but roughly US$3 billion less than requested. Sania Nishtar’s answer is a leaner, country-led operating system that must protect procurement scale and accountability.