Career

Current Positions:

• University of Washington (since 2015)
  • Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine (since 2018)
  • Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME, since 2015)
  • Adjunct Professor, Department of Global Health (since 2018), University of Washington
  • Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management (QERM)

Previous Positions:

• Professor of Global Health, University of Washington (2015-2018)
• University of Oxford (2014-2016)
  • Visiting Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Zoology
  • Member of the Spatial Ecology & Epidemiology Group (SEEG)
• Sanaria Institute for Global Health and Tropical Medicine (SIGHTM, 2014-16)
  • Senior Director for Infectious Disease Elimination
  • Senior Fellow
• Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, & Policy (CDDEP, 2008-16)
  • Associate Director for Research
  • Senior Fellow
• Professor, Johns Hopkins University (2011 - 2014)
  • Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  • Malaria Research Institute, Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Professor, University of Florida (2007 - 2011)
  • Professor, Department of Biology (2010-2011)
  • Associate Professor, Department of Zoology & Department of Biology (2007-2010)
  • Associate Director for Disease Ecology, Emerging Pathogens Institute
• Fogarty International Center, NIH (2003 - 2007)
• Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, School of Medicine (1999 - 2003)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine (2000-2003)
  • Research Scientist, Division of Hospital Epidemiology, Department of Medicine (1999-2000)
• University of Maryland, College Park (1998-1999)
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Biology of Small Populations

Education:

• PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University (1998)
  • Thesis: The Evolutionary Ecology of Parasitic Plants
  • Advisor: Simon A. Levin
  • Thesis Committee: Stephen W. Pacala, Henry S. Horn, Donald Stratton
• MA, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University (1995)
• MS, Mathematics, Brigham Young University (1993)
• BS, Mathematics, Brigham Young University (1991)

Projects:

• Malaria Modeling Consortium (MMC)
• Malaria Atlas Project (MAP)
• Malaria Elimination Group (MEG)
• Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (MalERA)
• Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD)
• Atlas for Baseline Risk Assessment for Infectious Diseases (ABRAID)
• The Human Mobility Mapping Project (THuMMP)
• The Global Burden of Diseases Study (GBD)
• The Local Burden of Diseases Study (LBD)