Seminars

Next Seminar

Speaker: Tanja Srebotnjak, Senior Fellow, Ecologic Institute

Title: The Small, the Bad, and the Ugly: Small Area Measurement of Selected Health Outcomes and Risk Factors

  • Date: February 10, 2010
  • Time: 4:15-5:30 p.m.
  • Where: IHME Offices

Future seminars

  • February 17, 2010 - Steve Goodreau, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Washington; topic TBD
  • February 24, 2010 - Jacqueline Sherris, Vice President, Global Programs, PATH; topic TBD
  • March 3, 2010 - Kevin Dunbar, Specialist Registrar, Public Health, Clinical and Population Sciences & Education, University of Dundee; topic TBD

To receive regular notifications of our upcoming seminars, please send an email to: IHME@healthmetricsandevaluation.org

Past seminars

  • The economics of prevention of non-communicable disease in Australia - Theo Vos, Professor, Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness, School of Population Health, University of Queensland

  • HPV vaccination in developing countries: a demonstration program - Aisha Jumaan, HPV Vaccines Project Director, PATH

  • Epidemiological Review of HIV/AIDS in China and Pakistan: Challenges and Opportunities - Yujiang Jia, Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Global Health and Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

  • Tracking anti-malaria efforts in Africa: the bed net supply chain from manufacturers to households - Abraham Flaxman, Post Graduate Fellow, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington

  • A primer on Bayesian inference, with an application to mortality rate estimation - Peter Hoff, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

  • The Global Development Program - Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • A New Rational for Benefit-Cost Analysis - Richard Zerbe, Daniel J. Evans Distinguished Professor, Evans School of Public Affairs and Adjunct Professor, School of Law, University of Washington

  • Global Thinking on Health Systems: Opportunities In An Era of Reforms - Julio Frenk, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health

  • Enhancing Washington State’s Global Health Impact through Creative Collaboration - Lisa Cohen, Director of the Washington Global Health Alliance

  • Measles Eradication by 2020? Economics and Epidemiology - David Bishai, Associate Professor of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  • Policies and interventions for global health risk factors: Lessons from research on energy, air pollution, and health - Majid Ezzati, Associate Professor of International Health, Harvard School of Public Health

  • Maternal Child Health in the 21st Century: New policy pathways for building healthier communities - Maxine Hayes, State Health Officer for the Washington State Department of Health

  • Mapping Global Health: GIS applications in health research and practice - Christina Woods, Consultant, Health Informatics and GIS

  • The Audacity of Personalized Medicine: Marrying Omics to Personal Health Records - Eugene Kolker, Chief Data Officer, Seattle Children's Hospital

  • Social Investment in Latin America: The Carso Health Institute - Roberto Tapia, Director-General, Carso Health Institute

  • Health Technology Assessment at the Frontier - Jaime Caro, Senior Vice President, Health Economics, United BioSource Corporation

  • Estimating mortality across the globe: new methods for working with imperfect data - Julie Rajaratnam, Research Scientist, IHME

  • An evidence-based approach to global promotion of physical activity and chronic disease prevention - Michael Pratt, Director, CDC/WHO Collaborating Center for Physical Activity and Health and Acting Chief, Physical Activity and Health Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • A Method for Local Public Health Agencies to Prioritize Health Promotion Program Investments - Eduardo J. Simoes, MD, MSc, MPH, Director, Prevention Research Centers Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • INTERHEART - Jeff Probstfield, Professor, Medicine, Division of Cardiology and Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology, University of Washington

  • The Impact of Development Assistance for Health on Government Health Spending - Chunling Lu, Instructor, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Senior Research Associate, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University

  • Strengthening Data Quality for Monitoring and Evaluation of Global Immunizations Program - Brent Burkholder, Director, Global Immunization Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Chung-won Lee, Team Lead, Data Management, Strengthening Immunization Systems Branch, Global Immunization Division, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • What can be done with $15 billion? Evaluation of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - Eran Bendavid, MD, Stanford University, CHP/PCOR Trainee in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Fellowship in Health Care Research and Policy

  • Health and Medical Research in Papua New Guinea - Ian Riley, Professor Emeritus, University of Queensland, Australia

  • Public Health Practice, Accountability and Metrics in the Pacific Northwest - Jack Thompson, Former Director, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice and Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of Washington

  • Technology Growth and Cost Growth in U.S. Health Care - Jonathan Skinner, Professor, Economics, and Department of Family and Community Medicine

  • Does It Work and Is It Worth It?: Evidence in Public Health - Laurie Anderson, Health Scientist, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

  • Long-term Care for Older People: International Perspectives - Manfred Huber, Director Health and Care, European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria

  • Cause-of-death: Who, Where, How and Why? - Peter Byass, Professor, Global Health, Umea University, Sweden

  • Lessons for global health from the AIDS response - Peter Piot, Senior Fellow, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

  • HIV/AIDS Control in India: Measurement and Evaluation Challenges - Lalit Dandona, Professor of International Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia

  • Design and Evaluation of Interactive Problem-solving - Keith A. Butler, Director of User Experience at Microsoft (on-leave)

  • The Hispanic Mortality Paradox - Rosa Solorio, Assistant Professor, UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Health Services

  • The System for Population Kinetics: New Software for Simulation and Analysis of Kinetic Data in Populations - David Foster, Research Professor Emeritus, UW Bioengineering

  • Sudan Health System: Perspective and Performance - Dr. Ali Ibrahim Ali Akoud, Director General Northern state Ministry of Health; Dr. Ali Sayed Mohammed Elhassan, Director General Blue Nile state Ministry of Health; Dr. Elfatih Mohamed Malik, Director of Communicable Diseases Control, Federal Ministry of Health; Dr. Isameldin Mohammed Abdalla, Director International Health, Federal Ministry of Health; Dr. Sara Hassan Mustafa, Director of Planning, Federal Ministry of Health

  • Field Epidemiology Training Programs, Building Global Public Health Capacity - Dr. Henry Walke, Center for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Twenty Years After Chernobyl: Is There An Excess of Cancer? - Scott Davis, PhD, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington

  • The Gates Foundation Global Health Program: Priorities and Approaches - Dr. Neil McDonnell, Chief of Staff for the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • The evolution of the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) and its potential to monitor global tobacco use and track tobacco control interventions - Dr. Samira Asma, Associate Director, Global Tobacco Control Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office on Smoking and Health

  • Mobile Data Collection for Community Health Workers - Gaetano Borriello, PhD, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington and Google

  • American Mortality, 1950-2035 - Samuel H. Preston, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

  • Public Health Data and Policy: Can one drive the other? - Mary Selecky, Secretary of Health, Washington State Department of Health

  • Building Block of Health Information Systems: Causes of Death Data - Mohsen Naghavi, MD, PhD, University of Washington

  • Geospatial Matters: Implications of Recent Advances in GIS for health metrics and evaluation - Daniel Sui, PhD, Texas A & M University

  • Health Statistics in Mexico and Country Health Information Systems - Rafael Lozano, MD, MSc, University of Washington

  • Research Activities in the Washington State Department of Health's Center for Health Statistics - Joseph Campo, MPH Washington State Department of Health, Center for Health Statistics

  • Sex-Biased Infant Survival in China - William Lavely, PhD and Yong Cai, PhD, University of Washington

  • HSV-2 and HIV: Probing a Complex Relationship for HIV Prevention Interventions - Jairam Lingappa, MD, PhD, University of Washington

  • Reducing Maternal and Child Undernutrition: How Can We Use Data More Effectively - Saul Morris, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • Measuring Disease Burden Due to Malaria: The Devil Is in the Details – Patrick Duffy, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

  • Investigating Possible Effects of Male Circumcision on HIV Epidemics Using Microsimulation – Samuel Clark, University of Washington

  • Learning About the Impact from Population Disease Trends: The Case of PSA Screening – Ruth Etzioni, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

  • Probabilistic Projections of HIV Prevalence Using Bayesian Melding – Adrian Raftery, University of Washington

  • Health and Nutrition Surveys in Mexico – Jaime Sepulveda, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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