Greg Roth, MD, MPH, is a Visiting Fellow at IHME and a Cardiology Fellow at the University of Washington. His research focuses on global health surveillance, health disparities, health economics, and cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Roth trained in internal medicine at the UW, and served as an attending physician in the emergency department at Harborview Medical Center and as a consultant physician at Whakatane Hospital, New Zealand. He received additional training as a post-doctoral fellow with the Veterans Administration Health Services Research and Development branch.
Dr. Roth is currently a recipient of an American Heart Association post-doctoral fellowship for his work developing a pharmacokinetic approach to measuring treatment disparities in heart failure. He is also the recipient of a UW Institute for Translational Health Sciences Ignition research grant for his work examining pharmacogenomics in heart failure.
At IHME, he brings his clinical expertise in cardiovascular disease to a range of research programs relating to US health disparities, the global burden of cardiovascular disease, and development of integrated health surveillance systems.
Published Works
Roth GA, Fihn SD, Mokdad AH, Aekplakorn W, Hasegawa T, Lim SS. High total serum cholesterol, medication coverage and therapeutic control: An analysis of national health examination survey data from eight countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2011; 89:92-101.
