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Marie Ng

Affiliate Associate Professor

Marie Ng, PhD, is an Affiliate Associate Professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, and an Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. At IHME, she collaborates closely with TEAM on the assessment of tobacco exposure and burden. She is also a key contributor to the GBD risk factors research. 

Marie’s experience in health data analytics spans across both academia and industry. A statistician by training, she began her global health research journey at IHME as a postgraduate fellow and later as an Assistant Professor. She subsequently transitioned to the industry, where she led data science teams in tech and consulting sectors to develop predictive analytics and generate market insights using real-world data. Marie is passionate about finding creative solutions to data issues and translating complex mathematics into actionable insights for decision-making.

Marie received her PhD from the University of Southern California, specializing in robust statistics, and her BS in Psychology, with minors in Philosophy and Mathematics, from the University of Washington.

Publications

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Duber HC, McNellan CR, Wollum A, et al. Public knowledge of cardiovascular disease and response to acute cardiac events in three cities in China and India. Heart 2018;104:67-72.
Flor LS, Reitsma MB, Gupta V, Ng M, Gakidou E. The effects of tobacco control policies on global smoking prevalence. Nature Medicine. 21 January 2021. doi: 10.1038/s41591-020-01210-8.
Gabert R, Ng M, Sogarwal R, Bryant M, Deepu RV, McNellan CR, Mehra S, Phillips B, Reitsma M, Thomson B, Wilson S, Wollum A, Gakidou E, Duber HC. Identifying gaps in the continuum of care for hypertension and diabetes in two Indian communities. BMC Health Services Research. 27 December 2017. doi:10.1186/s12913-017-2796-9. 
GBD 2015 Tobacco Collaborators. Smoking prevalence and attributable disease burden in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. The Lancet. 2017 April 7;14:48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30819-X 
Forouzanfar MH, Liu P, Roth GA, et al. Global burden of hypertension and systolic blood pressure of at least 110 to 115 mmHg, 1990–2015. JAMA. 2017 Jan 10;317(2):165-182. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.19043.