Rafael Lozano

Director of Latin American and Caribbean Initiatives

rlozano@uw.edu

Areas of Expertise

Health needs assessment, including causes of death analysis, validation of the quality of death certificates, verbal autopsies analysis, and national burden of diseases; national health information systems, including designing, monitoring, and evaluation; and health reform leadership, management, and policy, including health system performance assessment.

Bio

Rafael Lozano, MSc, MD, is Director of Latin American and Caribbean Initiatives and Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Based in Cuernavaca, Mexico, at the National Institute of Public Health (INSP), he is expanding IHME's presence in the region through new research projects, dissemination and uptake of IHME's methods and results, and consultation with regional leaders in population health.

Prior to joining IHME, Dr. Lozano worked for seven years at the Ministry of Health in Mexico as the General Director of Health Information, where he coordinated the Health Information System for the Ministry of Health and the production of national health statistics, coordinating information from a number of health sector institutions in Mexico. Overseeing the health information system, Dr. Lozano played a critical role in the construction of Mexico’s health reform through a systematic approach to evidence building.

Dr. Lozano has been a leading contributor to epidemiological statistics, theory, and methods. He worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva as Senior Epidemiologist for the Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy for three years, and at Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health, where he headed the Department of Epidemiology and the Division of Epidemiological Transition.

Dr. Lozano also spent several years at the Mexican Health Foundation in Mexico, coordinating the Health Needs Assessment unit for the Center for Health and the Economy. He spent two years as a Research Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

Dr. Lozano has been instrumental in educating a new generation of epidemiological and health system assessment experts after more than two decades of teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. Dr. Lozano has also brought his wealth of experience to numerous expert and advisory groups, including the Core Group of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study, the Technical Advisory Group for the WHO’s Health Metrics Network, and the Pan American Health Organization’s Health Statistics Advisory Committee. He has advised numerous countries on health sector strengthening and burden of disease studies, including Chile, Uruguay, Spain, and Colombia. Dr. Lozano has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on his research.

He holds an MD from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and a Master’s in Social Medicine from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico.

Published Works

Murray CJL†, Richards MAR, Newton JN, Fenton KA, Anderson HR*, Atkinson C*, Bennett D*, Bernabé E*, Blencowe H*, Bourne R*, Braithwaite T*, Brayne C*, Bruce NG*, Brugha TS*, Burney P*, Dherani M*, Dolk H*, Edmond K*, Ezzati M*, Flaxman AD*, Fleming TD*, Freedman G*, Gunnell D*, Hay RJ*, Hutchings SJ*, Ohno SL*, Lozano R*, Lyons RA*, Marcenes W*, Naghavi M*, Newton CR*, Pearce N*, Pope D*, Rushton L*, Salomon JA*, Shibuya K*, Vos T*, Wang H*, Williams HC*, Woolf AD*, Lopez AD, Davis A. UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. The Lancet.2013 March 5; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60355-4.

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