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Angela Apeagyei (Micah)

Research Assistant Professor

Angela Apeagyei, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. In this role, she co-leads the Development Assistance for Health resource tracking team, which produces global estimates of resource flows from high-income countries to low and middle-income countries aimed at the maintenance and improvement of health. Dr. Apeagyei's research focuses on tracking development assistance for health and evaluating health financing policies in low and middle-income countries.

Dr. Apeagyei holds a PhD in Global Health Management and Policy with specialization in Health Economics from Tulane University's School of Public Health, an M.A. in International and Development Economics from Yale University and a B.A. in Economics from Oberlin College. She is an alumnus of the World Bank Africa Fellowship Program.

IHME was established at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2007. Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice.

Publications

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Global Burden of Disease 2021 Health Financing Collaborator Network. Global investments in pandemic preparedness and COVID-19: tracking development assistance and domestic spending on health between 1990 and 2026. The Lancet Global Health. 24 January 2023. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00007-4.
Moitra M, Patel NK, Cogswell I, et al. Tracking development assistance for health from India to low- and middle-income countries, 2009–2020. PLOS ONE. 12 December 2022. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277799.
Micah, A.E., Solorio, J., Stutzman, H. et al. Development assistance for human resources for health, 1990–2020. Hum Resour Health 20, 51 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-022-00744-x.
Ikilezi G, Micah AE, Bachmeier SD, Cogswell IE, Maddison ER, Stutzman HN, Tsakalos G, Brenzel L, Dieleman JL. Estimating total spending by source of funding on routine and supplementary immunisation activities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17: a financial modelling study. The Lancet. 4 November 2021. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01591-9.
Global Burden of Disease 2020 Health Financing Collaborator Network. Tracking development assistance for health and for COVID-19: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2050. The Lancet. 22 September 2021. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01258-7.