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Benn Sartorius

Affiliate Professor

Dr. Benn Sartorius, PhD, is a Senior Geospatial Infectious Disease Modeller and Global Health Epidemiologist based in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington. His main research focus is in the spatial epidemiology domain with particular focus on burden of disease estimation and attributable determinants both at small-area resolution as well as at country and global scales. He is particularly interested in child health/mortality and infectious disease burden (HIV) in sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa.

He joined the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) as a collaborator in 2014 and the Scientific Council for the GBD Project in 2015. He is a member of the WHO 13th General Programme of Work (GPW 13) Metrics Taskforce under the auspices of the WHO Expert Reference Group to accelerate the development of the triple billion methodology focusing on three strategic priority areas: universal health coverage, health emergencies and healthier population targets. He is also a member of the WHO Reference Group on Health Statistics (RGHS) and co-chairs the Age-Specific Mortality Estimation and Life Table Computation task force.

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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GRAM Typhoid Collaborators. Estimating the subnational prevalence of antimicrobial resistant Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A infections in 75 endemic countries, 1990–2019: a modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. March 2024. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00585-5.
Sartorius B, Gray AP, Weaver ND, et al. The burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in the WHO Africa region in 2019: a cross-country systematic analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 19 December 2023. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00539-9.
Chipeta MG, Kumaran EPA, Browne AJ, et al. Mapping local variation in household overcrowding across Africa from 2000 to 2018: a modelling study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 01 August 2022. doi:10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00149-8.
Achoki T, Sartorius B, Watkins D, et al. Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 19 January 2022. doi: 10.1136/jech-2021-217480.
Wiens KE, Schaeffer LE, Sow SO, et al. Oral rehydration therapies in Senegal, Mali, and Sierra Leone: a spatial analysis of changes over time and implications for policy. BMC Medicine. 21 December 2020. doi: 10.1186/s12916-020-01857-7.