November 6, 2015

Breakfast with WACh with Simon Hay

Last Thursday, Global WACh was excited to welcome Simon Hay of the Institute for Health metrics and Evaluation as part of our Breakfast with WACh lecture series. He did an excellent presentation on Global Mapping of Infectious Disease.

You can view the entire presentation below.

 

Simon Hay is a Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington and Director of Geospatial Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). His career has focused on spatial and temporal aspects of infectious disease epidemiology to support the more rational implementation of disease control and intervention strategies. His best known work is focused on accurately defining human populations at risk of malaria and its burden at global, regional and national scales through the co-founding of the Malaria Atlas Project. He now leads an international collaboration of researchers, from a wide variety of academic disciplines, with the objective of improving the outputs and outcomes of infectious disease cartography.