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    CSDE Research Affiliate

    Ali Mokdad

    Director, Middle Eastern Initiatives | Professor, Global Health, Epidemiology & Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
    University of Washington
    Tel: 206-897-2849 Box: 358210
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    CSDE Research Areas:

    • Health of People and Populations
    • Migration and Settlement

    In the News:

    • Ali Mokdad Discusses Rate of Deaths Due to Gun Violence in the U.S. (2/16/2018)
    • Ali Mokdad Featured in Multiple News Sources on Covid-19 Model Predictions (4/14/2020)
    • Ali Mokdad Investigates Association Between Zika Virus and Microcephaly in Brazil (3/11/2019)
    • COVID Data, COVID models: Trailing Indicators, Leading Indicators, and the IHME Health Service Utilization Model (5/12/2020)
    • CSDE Director Sara Curran Will Join UW Graduate Public Lecture Series on September 24 for COVID 19: Stand Up and Be Counted (9/15/2020)
    • CSDE Welcomes New Affiliates (10/31/2017)
    • Heather Hill Appointed to Population Health Initiative Executive Council (9/3/2019)
    • Panel: Policy Analytics and Population Health (10/12/2020)
    • Ali Mokdad Quoted in NYT Article and Interviewed by NPR (6/1/2021)
    • UW Today Highlights Mokdad’s Leadership in Population Health Research (2/4/2022)
    • New Study on COVID and Gender Equality from Patwardhan, Mokdad, Gakidou & Co-authors (3/4/2022)
    • CSDE Affiliates and Colleagues Pen Opinion on Social Connection and Well-Being (10/1/2022)

    Ali H. Mokdad, PhD, is a Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Chief Strategy Officer for Population Health at the University of Washington. The Population Health Initiative was launched by President Ana Mari Cauce to create a shared vision for improving the health and well-being of populations locally and around the world.

    As a public health researcher, Dr. Mokdad has published groundbreaking work on local-level disease trends and some of the leading risk factors for poor health. His work on obesity is among the most highly cited in the field.

    As Director of Middle Eastern Initiatives for IHME, Dr. Mokdad builds IHME’s presence in the Middle East through new research projects, dissemination and uptake of IHME’s methods and results, and consultations with regional leaders in population health.

    Dr. Mokdad is the principal investigator (PI) for several important initiatives:

    • Salud Mesoamerica Initiative: providing independent evaluation for the public-private partnership between the Mesoamerican countries, private foundations, and bilateral donors; seeks to reduce inequities in the coverage of basic health services among the poorest populations in Mesoamerica
    • “Visualizing the impact and cost of interventions on future projections of diarrhea burden”: providing 25 years of forecasting for diarrheal disease burden and a simulation for the cost-effectiveness of known and developing interventions
    • Regional Malaria Elimination Initiative (RMEI): evaluating malaria programs in several Latin American and Caribbean nations; part of a project funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carlos Slim Foundation, and The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

    Prior to joining IHME, Dr. Mokdad worked at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), starting his career there in 1990. He served in numerous positions with the International Health Program; the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity; the National Immunization Program; and the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, where he was Chief of the Behavioral Surveillance Branch.

    He also managed and directed the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the world’s largest standardized telephone survey, which enables the CDC, state health departments, and other health and education agencies to monitor risk behaviors related to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States.

    Dr. Mokdad has published more than 550 articles and numerous reports. He has received several awards, including:

    • The Global Health Achievement Award for his work in Banda Aceh after the tsunami
    • The Department of Health and Human Services Honor Award for his work on flu monitoring
    • The Shepard Award for outstanding scientific contribution to public health for his work on BRFSS
    • The Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research for innovation in research on address-based sampling

    He received his BS in Biostatistics from the American University of Beirut and his PhD in Quantitative Epidemiology from Emory University

     

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