Kara Estep, MPA, is an Assistant Director of Data Quality and Intaket at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). In this role, she provides leadership, management, and supervision within the Global Burden of Diseases enterprise in order to deliver timely, high-quality, and policy-relevant results as part of an ongoing production process for key health indicators. Kara joined IHME in 2013 after finishing her master’s degree at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington (UW). She started working in research at the UW as an undergraduate student studying at Seattle Pacific University. In addition to her continued work in research at the UW and with various nonprofits in Seattle, Kara served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mongolia.
IHME was established at the University of Washington in 2007. Its mission is to improve health through better health evidence.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington that provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world's most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. IHME makes this information freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.