Mohsen Naghavi

Mohsen Naghavi, MD, MPH, PhD, is a Professor of Health Metric Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. In this role, he leads the Institute’s work on cause of death, intermediate cause, natural disaster, war and terrorism death . in addition he leads estimation of burden of skin diseases and anti microbial resistance. IHME was established at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007 and he started his work with IHME from 2007. Dr. Naghavi was senior expert on primary health care, disease, injury, and cause of death in Iran, having spent most of his career at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran, where he ran numerous programs and initiatives. At the Ministry, he headed up the Applied Research Center for Health. He started death registry system in Iran from one province and expanded this to 29 provinces of Iran and was in charge of disease control for both the province and the district. Prior to joining IHME, he was a Research Fellow at the Harvard Initiative for Global Health in 2007. Dr. Naghavi studied at Tehran University and received an MPH, a PhD in Epidemiology, and a medical degree.