Mohsen Naghavi

Dr. Mohsen Naghavi is a Professor of Health Metrics Sciences and Director of Subnational Burden of Disease Estimation at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. He leads IHME’s work on disease burden and causes of death, including projects in Brazil, Russia, Iran, China, and Ethiopia. Dr. Naghavi is a Global Burden of Disease team leader and member of the GBD Scientific Council, which helps guide the research of the GBD collaboration. Before this work, Dr. Naghavi was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and a senior expert on primary health care, disease, injury, and causes of death in Iran. Dr. Naghavi has spent most of his career at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran where he headed the Applied Research Center for Health. Dr. Naghavi received his MPH, PhD in Epidemiology, and MD from Tehran University.