Alumni Profile

Jeanette Birnbaum worked on IHME’s Burden of Disease research team, analyzing mortality data and developing methods to estimate cause of death profiles from hospital data in countries without national vital registration systems. 

In addition, Jeanette studied the misclassification of HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa. Jeanette’s research at IHME provides evidence that death registration data can provide empirical estimates of HIV/AIDS deaths.

Jeanette was the first Post-Bachelor Fellow to graduate from the Master of Public Health program at the University Washington and she is now enrolled in a PhD program in Public Health at the University of Washington.

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