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Rafael Lozano
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.O: 206-897-2836 | rlozano [at] uw.edu Rafael Lozano, MSc, MD, is Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and leads the Institute’s work on causes of death analysis and the National Health Information System working group. He is also Visiting Research Professor in Medical Sciences at Children's Hospital of Mexico Federico Gomez. 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, working at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva as Senior Epidemiologist for the Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy for three years, and also at Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health, heading up 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 2005 study, the Technical Advisory Group for the WHO’s Health Metrics Network, and PAHO’s Health Statistics Advisory Committee. He has also 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. Selected Publications:
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