Lorenzo Sabatelli

Areas of Expertise:

Effectiveness, costing, and cost-effectiveness of health interventions; drug resistance; diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases; population genetics; pathogen dynamics; stochastic processes.

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Lorenzo Sabatelli, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. He works on mathematical models as part of IHME’s Disease Control Priorities Network project. His work provides analytical guidance to other members of the Models group. He also is working in the areas of costing, production function analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and priority setting.

Dr. Sabatelli joined IHME in September 2009 as a Post-Graduate Fellow.

Before joining IHME, Dr. Sabatelli worked as a Research Fellow at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Public Health Sciences Division and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he studied vaccines and infectious diseases.

Dr. Sabatelli earned his PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics in 2004 at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to that, he earned a Laurea Specialistica (MSc) in Theoretical Physics from the University of Pisa, Italy. He is co-author of several interdisciplinary and public health-related publications. Dr. Sabatelli has lived in five different countries and speaks four languages. 

Selected Publications:

  1. Abu-Raddad LJ, Sabatelli L, Achterberg JT, Sugimoto JD, Longini IM, Dye C, Halloran ME. Epidemiological benefits of more effective tuberculosis vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. PNAS. 2009; 106(33):13980-5.
  2. Sabatelli L, Ghani AC, Rodrigues LC, Hotez PJ, Brooker S. Modelling heterogeneity and the impact of chemotherapy and vaccination against human hookworm. J R Soc Interface. 2008; 5(28):1329-41.

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