Mohsen Naghavi

Mohsen 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 causes of death, intermediate cause, natural disaster, war, and terrorism death. In addition, he leads the estimation of the burden of skin diseases and Anti Microbial Resistance (AMR). Dr. Naghavi is director for subnational estimation too and in this role, he leads the Institute’s work on the subnational analysis of disease burden, working closely with international collaborators and country governments, including projects in Brazil, Russia, Iran, China, and Ethiopia and 17 other countries. In 2015 and 2016, he was named one of the world’s “most influential scientific minds” by Thomson Reuters.

IHME was established at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007 and he started his work with IHME in 2007. Dr. Naghavi was a 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 the death registry system in Iran from one province and expanded this to 29 provinces of Iran. He 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 Ph.D. in Epidemiology, and a medical degree.