Natasha Buksh is an international health and social policy professional with extensive partnership and policy experience spanning across East Africa, Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. In addition to robust policy analysis and donor coordination experience, she demonstrates leadership in critical technical areas including digital health, health financing, and disease prevention. Pairing concrete experience working directly with senior government officials and with grassroots community level organizations, she is able to both interpret and execute policies, and strategically implement global health interventions in a culturally appropriate, rights-based and gender sensitive manner, to realize sustainable results. Natasha is a doctoral candidate at École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France and obtained her dual MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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Research topics

 

Fostering findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) Digital Health Innovation Ecosystems in sub-Saharan Africa.

The challenges of attracting companies to an open healthcare data infrastructure platform, and how to create the conditions for a vibrant local innovation ecosystem to form around the platform.

Creating conditions for a vibrant local innovation ecosystem to form around an open healthcare data infrastructure platform.

Though large-scale adaptation of health data ecosystems has not yet been achieved, there are numerous examples of projects that have demonstrated safe,
ethical, reliable, and secure sharing of health data in an ecosystem setting. However, these have not been identified within the sub-Saharan African context.

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