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“The future does not belong only to the futurists.”
Rūshay is a global health systems designer operating across the realms of diplomacy, research, and foresight. He is the founder of SOLITON, a tactical service design studio employing site-based approaches to build resilient and integrated health systems. Rūshay brings experience working across international organizations and over two dozen governments in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and perspectives from thinking, living, and moving very, very slowly across countries on five continents.
SOLITON
In a world marked by unpredictable shifts in global power and emerging challenges, traditional models of health system delivery and financing no longer suffice. SOLITON is a consultancy offering a new approach, conceiving of health systems as dynamic, self-reinforcing entities capable of adapting and thriving in the face of shocks and volatility.
World Health Organization
As a consultant with the Strategic Knowledge Hub based in Manila (Philippines), Rūshay provided agile hypothesis-driven analysis and technical public health support to 38 Member States in priority areas of the Western Pacific Region, including: health security, climate change, non-communicable diseases & ageing, and reaching unreached communities.
Organization for Economic Co-operation & Development
A health policy researcher at the OECD in Paris (France), Rushay supported the strategic policy development of the OECD's novel Climate and Health Programme, drafting the annex of the renewed OECD Health Systems Performance Assessment Framework endorsed by over 40 OECD Ministers of Health and the European Union, and collaborated on civil society engagement and health systems resilience initiatives with partners at the World Bank, the European Commission, and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.
Government of Canada
Working as a research analyst with Health Canada | Santé Canada in Ottawa (Canada), Rūshay supported community preparedness and emergency response to extreme heat as part of the Climate Change and Innovation Bureau, with projects developed in collaboration with the United States Centers for Disease Control, Global Affairs Canada, and provincial/territorial counterparts.
OECD (2024), Rethinking Health System Performance Assessment: A Renewed Framework, OECD Health Policy Studies, OECD Publishing, Paris.
OECD/The World Bank (2023), Health at a Glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023, OECD Publishing, Paris.
The Lancet Voice (2023) Universal Health Coverage: Putting the U in UHC [podcast]. The Lancet.
Kendir, C. et al. (2023), “All hands on deck: Co-developing the first international survey of people living with chronic conditions: Stakeholder engagement in the design, development, and field trial implementation of the PaRIS survey”, OECD Health Working Papers, No. 149, OECD Publishing, Paris.
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