Core Team

The Core Team is responsible for coordinating and facilitating the study and will manage the harmonization of the GBD estimates produced by the Expert Groups.

Team Members

Robert Black
Chairman, Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Ties Boerma
Director, Department of Measurement and Health Information Systems
World Health Organization

Majid Ezzati
Associate Professor of International Health
Department of Population and International Health and Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard Initiative for Global Health

Kenneth Hill
Associate Director, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies

Dean Jamison
Angelopolous Visiting Professor in Public Health and International Development
Harvard School of Public Health and Kennedy School of Government
Harvard Initiative for Global Health
Professor of Development Economics
University of California, San Francisco

Alan Lopez
Head of School
School of Population Health, University of Queensland

Rafael Lozano
Visiting Professor
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington

Colin Mathers
Coordinator, Country Health Information
Information, Evidence and Research Cluster
World Health Organization

Catherine Michaud
Senior Research Scientist
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard Initiative for Global Health

Christopher J.L. Murray
Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Professor, Department of Global Health
University of Washington

Kenji Shibuya
Coordinator, Health Statistics and Evidence
Information, Evidence and Research Cluster
World Health Organization

Joshua Salomon
Associate Professor of International Health
Department of Population and International Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard Initiative for Global Health

Theo Vos
Director, Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness
School of Population Health, University of Queensland

Neff Walker
Senior Research Scientist
Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health