Biography
Gulrez Azhar, MD PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow at IHME and a member of the futures Health scenarios research group. Dr. Azhar completed his doctoral work in Policy Analysis at the RAND graduate school, where he studied health impacts of heat and worked on a range of diverse health research projects. His training is in medicine, public health and public policy and uses epidemiology, econometric and evidence synthesis tools. He is interested in understanding the future impacts of climate change on health conditions.
IHME was established at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007. Its mission is to improve health through better health evidence.
Vollset SE, Goren E, Yuan C-W, Cao J, Smith AE, Hsiao T, Bisignano C, Azhar GS, Castro E, Chalek J, Dolgart AJ, Frank T, Fukutaki K, Hay SI, Lozano R, Mokdad AH, Nandakumar V, Pierce M, Pletcher M, Robalik T, Steuben KM, Wunrow HY, Zlavog BS, Murray CJL. Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study. The Lancet. 14 July 2020. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30677-2.