Seminars

Next Seminar

Speaker: Rand Wilcox, Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Southern California

Title: How many discoveries are lost by ignoring modern statistical methods? An update when using robust regression methods

  • Date: March 31, 2010
  • Time: 4:15-5:30 p.m.
  • Where: IHME Offices

There will be no seminars March 17 and 24 due to UW final exams and spring break.

Future seminars

  • April 7, 2010 - John Loeser, Professor Emeritus, Department of Neurosurgery and Department of Anesthesiology, University of Washington School of Medicine speaking on, "Pain: What is it, why does it matter, how can it be measured?"
  • April 14, 2010 - Andrew Mack, Director, Human Security Report Project Limited Term Professor, School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University speaking on, "The (apparent) paradox of mortality rates that decline during periods of warfare"
  • April 21, 2010 - TBD

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

Past seminars

  • Level One Studies in Third World Countries: Reality Check - Randall Chesnut, Integra Endowed Professor of Neurotrauma, Harborview Medical Center

  • Prediction Without Maths: What can graphs tell us about the past and the future of cirrhosis mortality in developed countries? - Kevin Dunbar, Specialist Registrar, Public Health, Clinical and Population Sciences & Education, University of Dundee

  • Measuring PATH’s cumulative contributions to global health: challenges and opportunities - Jacqueline Sherris, Vice President, Global Programs, PATH

  • HIV acute infection and relational concurrency in Sub-Saharan Africa - Steve Goodreau, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Washington

  • The Small, the Bad, and the Ugly: Small Area Measurement of Selected Health Outcomes and Risk Factors - Tanja Srebotnjak, Senior Fellow, Ecologic Institute

  • 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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