Dr. Chris Murray to Deliver Dudley Allen Sargent Lecture, Oct. 26

2016 Dudley Allen Sargent Lecture

“The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Burden of Disease Study”

Presented by Dr. Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington

Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 4-5 p.m.
635 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
Sargent College Room 101

Admission is free. The public is cordially invited.
Reception to follow in the Setterberg Lounge, 2nd floor.

Contact Katy Staley at kstaley@bu.edu or 617-353-2705 for more details or to request special accommodations.

About the Speaker

Physician and health economist Christopher J. L. Murray has dedicated his career to improving health and health evidence worldwide. His work has led to the development of a range of new methods and empirical studies to strengthen health measurement, analyze the performance of public health and medical care systems, and assess the cost effectiveness of health technologies. Murray is a founder of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) approach, a systematic effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time.

Previously, Murray worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) where he served as executive eirector of the Evidence and Information for Policy Cluster. He went on to become director of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, as well as the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Murray has authored or edited 14 books, numerous book chapters, and more than 250 journal articles in international peer-reviewed publications. He holds Bachelor of Arts and Science degrees from Harvard University, a DPhil in International Health Economics from Oxford University, and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School.

Murray was profiled by Jeremy N. Smith in “Epic Measures”, an account of Murray’s “monumental effort to understand how we live and how we die.”