Mohsen Naghavi

Mohsen Naghavi

Areas of Expertise:

Health system expansion; management and integration of health programs; epidemiological study at the national level in developing countries; death registry system and cause of death data; epidemiology of intentional and unintentional injuries; program evaluation in horizontal health systems; health information systems in developing countries; burden of disease. 

O: 206-897-2818 | nagham [at] uw.edu

Mohsen Naghavi, MD, MPH, PhD, is Associate Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and is involved in the Institute’s work on mortality, cause-of-death analysis, burden of disease, health systems performance assessment, and effective coverage.

Dr. Naghavi is a leading expert on primary health care, disease, injury, and cause of death in Iran, after spending most of his career at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran, where he ran numerous programs and initiatives. At the Ministry, Dr. Naghavi headed up the Applied Research Center for Health and was in charge of disease control for both the province and the district.

Prior to joining IHME, Dr. Naghavi was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health in 2007.

Dr. Naghavi studied at Tehran University and received a Master of Public Health, a PhD in Epidemiology, and a medical degree.

Selected Publications:

  1. Hossinpoor AR, Mohamad K, Majedzadeh R, Naghavi M, Abolhasani F, Sousa A, Speyroeck N, Jamshidi HR, Vega J. Socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran and across its provinces. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2005; 83;837-44.
  2. Hossinpoor AR, Van Doorslaer E, Speyroeck N, Naghavi M, Majedzadeh R, Dellavar B, Jamshidi HR, Vega J. Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in infant mortality in Iran. International Journal of Epidemiology. 2006 Sept 19.
  3. Khosravi A, Taylor R, Naghavi M, Lopez AD. Mortality in the Islamic Republic of Iran 1964-2004. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2007; 85:607–14.
  4. Khosravi A, Taylor R, Naghavi M, Lopez AD. Differential mortality in Iran. Population Health Metrics. 2007; 5:7.
  5. Khosravi A, Rao C, Naghavi M, Taylor R, Jafari N, Lopez AD. The impact of misclassification on measures of cardiovascular disease mortality in Iran. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2008; 86:688–96.
  6. Bhalla K, Shahraz S, Naghavi M, Lozano R, Murray C. Estimating the distribution of external causes in hospital data from injury diagnosis. Accident Analysis and Prevention. 2008 November; 40(6):1822-9.
  7. Naghavi M, Shahraz S, Bhalla K, Jafari N, Pourmalek F, Bartels D, Abraham J, Motlagh ME. Adverse health outcomes of road traffic injuries in Iran after rapid motorization. Archives of Iranian Medicine. 2009; 12(3):284-94.
  8. Naghavi M, Abolhassani F, Pourmalek F, Lakeh MM, Jafari N, Vaseghi S, Hezaveh NM, Kazemeini H. The burden of disease and injury in Iran 2003. Population Health Metrics. 2009; 7:9.
  9. Naghavi M. Transition in Health Status in Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian Journal of Epidemiology. 2006; 1(3):13-25
  10. Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Statistics Center of Iran. Demographic and Health Survey in Iran (DHS). New York: UNICEF and UNFPA; 2000
  11. Mortality pattern according to sex age and causes in 29 provinces in 2004. ISBN 946-504-091-4.
  12. Injuries Epidemiology (intentional and unintentional injuries) in Iran 2002–2003. ISBN: 964-96089-07-4.
  13. Utilization of Health Services in Iran. 2005; ISBN: 964-6711-27-8.
  14. Iran Rural Population Health Transition. 2005; ISBN: 964-92496-0-5.
  15. Iran National Burden of Disease. 2007; ISBN: 964-8989-16-8.

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