Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

David, from Williamstown, MA, is a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Geosciences and a certificate in African Studies. While in the Post-Bachelor Fellowship program, David worked on the Road Traffic Injury Metrics Project and the Causes of Death working group. David worked with ArcGIS to map road traffic injury patterns, estimating vehicle fleet size and assisting with injury redistribution work. David then moved to the Harvard Initiative for Global Health to continue his work on the Road Traffic Injury Metrics Project.

Jeanette is a native of Massachusetts, receiving her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University. Jeanette's work as a Post-Bachelor Fellow involves analyzing mortality data for the Global Burden of Disease project and the development of methods to estimate cause-of-death profiles from hospital data in countries without national vital registration systems. She is interested in the role of metrics as well as the role of accessible technology in addressing the health needs of the developing world. As part of the Post-Bachelor Fellowship program, Jeanette also is enrolled in the Master of Public Health program at the University of Washington.

Andrew, from Grafton, MA, graduated from Yale University in 2007 with a BA in Political Science. Andrew worked on the development of models to estimate adult mortality in countries lacking reliable vital registration systems by using child mortality data, national-level economic and social indicators, and epidemiological data. Andrew also participated in the analysis of the consistency of health state rankings between countries and across demographic subpopulations using the 2000-2001 WHO Multi-Country Survey Study on Health and Responsiveness. Andrew went on to the combined MD/MBA program at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School.

Alexandra is from Pennsylvania and graduated from Yale University in 2007 with a BA in Philosophy. While working as a Post-Bachelor Fellow, Alexandra worked to estimate the global coverage of a number of interventions, including salt-iodinization, skilled birth attendance, and vaccination. Alexandra plans to pursue a career in health care law and bioethics.

Paul, originally from Santiago, Chile, studied Economics and Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. During his undergraduate studies, Paul became increasingly interested in development, which led him to apply for IHME's Post-Bachelor Fellowship program. As part of the fellowship, Paul tracked international aid flows to health and estimated economic status from survey information on asset ownership. Paul's broader interests lie in the connection between research and policy/ practice; program implementation and evaluation; and aid delivery and effectiveness. Paul went on to pursue a Master's Degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Economic Development and Advanced Policy and Economic Analysis at the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Mara graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 with a major in Biology. As an undergraduate, she took a semester's leave of absence to conduct malaria research in Cameroon and lived in Kenya for a summer evaluating a nutrition education program in a community clinic. Mara also completed several independent studies in medical anthropology and malaria. As a Post-Bachelor Fellow, Mara participated in two research projects: the association between county elevation and county mortality rates in the United States; and the estimation of the burden of hyperglycemia as a risk factor in the Global Burden of Disease assessment. Mara went on to study medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

Chang received a BA in Psychology from Yale University. Changs work as a Post-Bachelor Fellow involved using sibling histories from surveys to improve adult mortality estimates and analyzing disparities in health outcomes in different states in India. After his fellowship, Chang pursued a degree in medicine.

Justin, from Vancouver Island, Canada, received his undergraduate degree with distinction in the History of Science/History of Medicine from Yale University in 2007. Justin traveled in Japan, China, and throughout Europe studying both the history of and current practices of medicine. Justin worked with international health organizations, such as the Oxford Health Alliance and the World Health Organization. At IHME, Justin focused on implementing new methods to improve cause -of-death information from vital registration systems and calculating cause-specific mortality.

David graduated from Boston University in May 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. While at IHME, David examined the global coverage of hypertension, which involved analyzing a number of nationally representative health examination surveys and doing a systematic search for all nationally representative surveys that measure blood pressure. David also researched global coverage of vitamin A supplementation and oral rehydration therapy. David helped compile a database of all country, international financial institution, and foundation flows of resources for health to low-and-middle income countries. David went on to study medicine at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

David graduated from Amherst College in 2006 with a degree in Physics and Math, and then spent a year traveling prior to joining the Post-Bachelor Fellowship program. His work at IHME included vaccination coverage and missing data. After his fellowship, David joined the University of Queensland in Australia where he is estimating cost-effective combinations of interventions for chronic diseases. David’s future plans include pursuing a PhD in Applied Mathematics.

Linda graduated from the University of California, Davis in 2007 with dual degrees in Statistics and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. As a Post-Bachelor Fellow at IHME, she worked on developing new models to estimate under-five mortality. Through the fellowship program, Linda worked at the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) in Gaborone, Botswana, where she helped evaluate the lay counselor cadre and assess data quality systems. After her fellowship, Linda joined a research team at the University of Queensland in Australia where she is helping to determine health inequities in India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, and Papua New Guinea, by applying subnationally the same child mortality models she helped develop at IHME. Her future plans include pursuing a Statistics PhD. Her time at IHME inspired her to continue working in health and development.

Ari graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. During his fellowship, he worked on trends in US county-level mortality disparities, methods to better estimate diabetes burden in US states, and measurement of air pollution in Accra, Ghana. Ari went on to enroll in an MD/PhD program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Tom received his undergraduate degree in Physics and Astronomy from Harvard University in 2006. As a Post-Bachelor Fellow, he worked on building a general population microsimulator for the R statistical package to evaluate death distribution methods. After his fellowship, Tom studied Atmospheric Physics at Harvard University.

Stella graduated in 2006 from Middlebury College, where she majored in Economics and minored in Physics. She worked in the field of quantitative global health research as a Post-Bachelor Fellow, initially at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (HIGH) in Cambridge, MA, and subsequently at IHME. As a Post-Bachelor Fellow, Stella worked on analyzing survey data to estimate the worldwide effective coverage of health interventions such as cervical cancer screening, provision of corrective lenses, and maternal health care, and assisted with HIGHs evaluation of the Mexican health care reform Seguro Popular.

Andrew graduated from Bates College in 2006 with a degree in Environmental Economics. As a Post-Bachelor Fellow, Andrew worked to assess the effectiveness of health interventions under nonexperimental conditions, including the impact of insecticide-treated nets on reducing all-cause child mortality in Kenya. Andrew then pursued graduate work in population health at The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.