Biography
Nafis Sadat, MA, is a Researcher on the Financial Resources for Health team at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). He is currently working on projects related to health expenditure forecasting and econometric modeling of health and wealth causations. Prior to joining IHME in 2015, Nafis completed his Master of Arts degree at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
IHME was established at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007. Its mission is to improve health through better health evidence.
Skirbekk V, Ottersen T, Hamavid H, Sadat N, Dieleman JL. Vast majority of development assistance for health funds target those below age sixty. Health Affairs. 2017 May; 36(5):926-930. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2016.1370.
Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network. Future and potential spending on health 2015–2040: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries. The Lancet. 19 April 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30873-5
Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator Network. Evolution and patterns of global health financing 1995–2014: development assistance for health, and government, prepaid private, and out-of-pocket health spending in 184 countries. The Lancet. 19 April 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30874-7
Dieleman JL, Schneider MT, Haakenstad A, Singh L, Sadat N, Birger M, Reynolds A, Templin T, Hamavid H, Chapin A, Murray CJL. Development assistance for health: past trends, associations, and the future of international financial flows for health. The Lancet. 2016 Apr 13. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30168-4.
Dieleman JL, Templin T, Sadat N, Reidy P, Chapin A, Foreman K, Haakenstad A, Evans T, Murray CJL, Kurowski C. National spending on health by source for 184 countries between 2013 and 2040. The Lancet. 2016 Apr 13. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30167-2.