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Rafael Lozano

Bio

Rafael Lozano, MSc, MD, is Director of Latin American and Caribbean Initiatives and Professor of Global Health [2] 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.

Related Publications & Presentations

Research Articles Presentations
UK health performance: findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 [3]
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 [4]
Common values in assessing health outcomes from disease and injury: disability weights measurement study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 [5]
A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 [6]
Disability‐adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 [7]
Years lived with disability (YLDs) for 1,160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 [8]
Global malaria mortality between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis [9]
Modeling causes of death: an integrated approach using CODEm [10]
Progress towards Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 on maternal and child mortality: an updated systematic analysis [11]
Breast and cervical cancer in 187 countries between 1980 and 2010: a systematic analysis [12]
Robust metrics for assessing the performance of different verbal autopsy cause assignment methods in validation studies [13]
Assessing quality of medical death certification: concordance between gold standard diagnoses and underlying cause of death in selected Mexican hospitals [14]
Performance of InterVA for assigning causes of death to verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards [15]
Simplified Symptom Pattern Method for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards [16]
Population Health Metrics Research Consortium gold standard verbal autopsy validation study: design, implementation, and development of analysis datasets [17]
Performance of physician-certified verbal autopsies: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards [18]
Progress on the Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in Mesoamerica. [19]
Exposing misclassified HIV/AIDS deaths in South Africa [20]
Improving the public health utility of global cardiovascular mortality data: the rise of ischemic heart disease [21]
Management of diabetes and associated cardiovascular risk factors in seven countries: a comparison of data from national health examination surveys [22]
Increased educational attainment and its effect on child mortality in 175 countries between 1970 and 2009: a systematic analysis [23]
Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data [24]
Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5 [25]
Tendencias del cáncer de Mama en América Latina y el Caribe. [26]
Estimating the distribution of external causes in hospital data from injury diagnosis [27]
Prevention of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals in low-income and middle-income countries: health effects and costs [28]
Estimating population cause-specific mortality fractions from in-hospital mortality: validation of a new method [29]
Impact of insurance and supply of health professionals on coverage of hypertensive treatment: an analysis of Mexico: population based study. [30]
El peso de la enfermedad crónica en México. [31]
Benchmarking of performance of Mexican states with effective coverage. [32]
Data sources for measuring maternal mortality [33]
Estimación de la mortalidad materna [Estimating maternal mortality, Part I] [34]
Estimating maternal mortality I [35]
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 [36]
Instituto para la Medición y Evaluación de la Salud [Welcome and introduction] [37]
Introduction to IHME [38]
Lecciones aprendidas y estrategias para mejorar [Strategies for improving maternal mortality estimates in Latin America/visualizations] [39]
Lessons learned and strategies for improvement [40]
Maternal mortality estimates:global progress on levels and trends [41]
Maternal mortality in Asia [42]
Maternal mortality in Mexico: lessons learned from improving data quality [43]
Quality Assessment of Mortality Information [44]
The importance of maternal mortality measurement [45]

Related News & Events

Events
IHME participates in Latin American regional consultation on maternal health [46]
IHME presents cause of death research at health statistics meeting for the Americas [47]
IHME shares results from PHMRC study in a series of seminars in Mexico [48]
IHME co-hosts Global Health Metrics and Evaluation (GHME) conference 2011 [49]
IHME co-hosts Global Congress on Verbal Autopsy: State of the Science [50]
IHME hosts second Maternal Mortality Workshop in Brazil [51]
IHME hosts Maternal Mortality Workshop in Sri Lanka [52]
IHME presents at the Global Maternal Health Conference [53]
IHME launches new policy report, "Building Momentum: Global Progress toward Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality," at Women Deliver 2010 [54]
IHME co-hosts symposium on maternal and child health [55]

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[1] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/category/team-bio-type/faculty
[2] http://globalhealth.washington.edu/index.php
[3] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/publications/uk-health-performance-findings-global-burden-disease-study-2010
[4] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/publications/global-and-regional-mortality-235-causes-death-20-age-groups-1990-and-2010-sy
[5] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/publications/common-values-assessing-health-outcomes-disease-and-injury-disability-weights
[6] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/publications/burden-disease-and-injury-attributable-67-risk-factors-21-regions-1990%E2%80%932010-c
[7] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/publications/disability%E2%80%90adjusted-life-years-dalys-291-diseases-and-injuries-21-regions-199
[8] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/publications/global-burden-non%E2%80%90fatal-health-outcomes-1160-sequelae-289-diseases-and-injuri
[9] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/global-malaria-mortality-between-1980-and-2010-systematic-analysis
[10] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/modeling-causes-death-integrated-approach-using-codem
[11] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/progress-towards-millennium-development-goals-4-and-5-maternal-and-child-mort
[12] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/breast-and-cervical-cancer-187-countries-between-1980-and-2010-systematic-ana
[13] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/robust-metrics-assessing-performance-different-verbal-autopsy-cause-assignmen
[14] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/assessing-quality-medical-death-certification-concordance-between-gold-standa
[15] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/performance-interva-assigning-causes-death-verbal-autopsies-multisite-validat
[16] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/simplified-symptom-pattern-method-verbal-autopsy-analysis-multisite-validatio
[17] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/population-health-metrics-research-consortium-gold-standard-verbal-autopsy-va
[18] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/performance-physician-certified-verbal-autopsies-multisite-validation-study-u
[19] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/content/progress-millennium-development-goals-4-and-5-mesoamerica
[20] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/exposing-misclassified-hivaids-deaths-south-africa
[21] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/improving-public-health-utility-global-cardiovascular-mortality-data-rise-isc
[22] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/management-diabetes-and-associated-cardiovascular-risk-factors-seven-countrie
[23] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/increased-educational-attainment-and-its-effect-child-mortality-175-countries
[24] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/algorithms-enhancing-public-health-utility-national-causes-death-data
[25] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/maternal-mortality-181-countries-1980-2008-systematic-analysis-progress-towar
[26] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/content/tendencias-del-c%C3%A1ncer-de-mama-en-am%C3%A9rica-latina-y-el-caribe
[27] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/estimating-distribution-external-causes-hospital-data-injury-diagnosis
[28] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/prevention-cardiovascular-disease-high-risk-individuals-low-income-and-middle
[29] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/publications/summaries/estimating-population-cause-specific-mortality-fractions-hospital-mortality-v
[30] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/content/impact-insurance-and-supply-health-professionals-coverage-hypertensive-treatment-analysis-me
[31] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/content/el-peso-de-la-enfermedad-cr%C3%B3nica-en-m%C3%A9xico
[32] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/content/benchmarking-performance-mexican-states-effective-coverage
[33] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/data-sources-measuring-maternal-mortality
[34] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/estimaci%C3%B3n-de-la-mortalidad-materna-estimating-maternal-mortalit
[35] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/estimating-maternal-mortality-i
[36] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/presentation/global-and-regional-mortality-235-causes-death-20-age-groups-199
[37] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/instituto-para-la-medici%C3%B3n-y-evaluaci%C3%B3n-de-la-salud-welcome-and-
[38] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/introduction-ihme
[39] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/lecciones-aprendidas-y-estrategias-para-mejorar-strategies-impro
[40] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/lessons-learned-and-strategies-improvement
[41] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/maternal-mortality-estimatesglobal-progress-levels-and-trends
[42] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/maternal-mortality-asia
[43] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/maternal-mortality-mexico-lessons-learned-improving-data-quality
[44] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/quality-assessment-mortality-information
[45] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/multimedia/presentation/importance-maternal-mortality-measurement
[46] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-participates-latin-american-regional-consultation-maternal-health
[47] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-presents-cause-death-research-health-statistics-meeting-americas
[48] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-shares-results-phmrc-study-series-seminars-mexico
[49] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-co-hosts-global-health-metrics-and-evaluation-ghme-conference-2011
[50] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-co-hosts-global-congress-verbal-autopsy-state-science
[51] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-hosts-second-maternal-mortality-workshop-brazil
[52] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-hosts-maternal-mortality-workshop
[53] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-presents-global-maternal-health-conference
[54] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-launches-new-policy-report-building-momentum-global-progress-toward-reducing-
[55] http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/news-events/event/ihme-co-hosts-symposium-maternal-and-child-health