Dr Dian Kusuma is a Lecturer in Global Health at City, University of London, UK. His expertise includes health system assessment, health financing & service delivery, health inequalities, health reform, policy impact evaluations (cluster randomized trial, quasi-experimental methods), quantitative methods, geospatial analysis, NCD prevention & control (CVD, diabetes, obesity, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and smoking), especially in low and middle-income countries.
Before joining City, he was a research associate on the NIHR Global Health Research Unit project at Imperial College London during 2018-2022. The project aimed to create an interdisciplinary environment that fosters the development and implementation of acceptable, equitable, efficient, scalable, and sustainable approaches to reduce the burden of type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka).
He graduated from Harvard University with a Doctor of Science in Global Health & Population, majoring in Health Systems. He worked as a postdoc researcher at Harvard during 2015-2018 working in the Malaysia Health Systems Research. He conducted a comprehensive health systems assessment and designed a large-scale mixed-methods cluster-randomized impact evaluation of the enhanced primary health care (EnPHC) intervention toward tackling cardiovascular risk factors.