Simon Hay currently serves as the Director of Research Strategy and Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, where responsibilities include leading strategic research planning and advancing geospatial techniques in health metrics. Prior to this, Simon held multiple roles at the University of Oxford, including Professor of Epidemiology and Reader of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, focusing on malaria research and the impact of environmental changes on disease epidemiology. Simon Hay's educational background includes a D.Sc. and D.Phil. in Epidemiology from the University of Oxford, as well as a B.Sc. in Zoology from the University of Bristol.
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.