What are the mortality consequences of the obesity epidemic? Insights from individual- and population-based data
Synopsis
Since 1980, there has been a worldwide rise in body mass index, while blood pressure has declined in high-income and some middle-income regions and cholesterol has declined in Western countries. The effects of these divergent trends on mortality and population health are not well understood.
This presentation will use individual-level and population-based epidemiological data to examine the potential impacts of obesity and other metabolic risks on mortality from cardiovascular disease.
Bio
Dr. Ezzati is the Chair in Global Environmental Health at Imperial College London and Affiliate Professor of Global Health at IHME. Dr. Ezzati's research focuses on the effects of risk factor exposures and interventions on population health and health disparities, with emphasis on environmental risks, smoking, and nutritional and metabolic risk factors. His research group also conducts field research on air pollution and health in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The research includes characterizing and measuring exposure to individual pollutants or to pollutant mixtures in both rural and urban areas, quantifying the role of sources such as biomass use and transportation on air pollution levels and exposure, measuring and quantifying the health impacts of alternative energy technologies, and designing new technological interventions and intervention delivery programs.
Dr. Ezzati was awarded the WHO Global Health Leadership Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 2000. At WHO, he was Lead Scientist for the Comparative Risk Assessment Project, which was part of the World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life.
Dr. Ezzati has published more than 100 articles and four books and is a member of a number of expert and advisory groups in global health and global environmental health. Dr. Ezzati holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in engineering from McMaster and McGill universities and a PhD in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy from Princeton University.
