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In 2007, he moved from Harvard to the University of Washington to head the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation with the help of former Mexican Secretary of Health, Julio Frenk, who serves as Chair of the Board of Directors.[2] At the institute, Murray's work has included studying adult and child mortality, costs of various health interventions, and continuing work with colleagues at Harvard, the WHO and elsewhere on projects that conduct research and mine data to improve public health.
Dr. Murray is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and **2018 co-recipient** of the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award.
https://globalhealth.washington.edu/faculty/christopher-murray
2018: Alan Lopez, Christopher J.L. Murray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Gairdner_Global_Health_Award
Alan Donald Lopez AC (born 1951) is an Australian global and public health scholar and epidemiologist who focuses on the measurement of population health and the global descriptive epidemiologist of tobacco.
He is a Melbourne Laureate Professor and the Rowden-White Chair of Global Health and Burden of Disease Measurement at The University of Melbourne.[1] He is also the Director of the Global Burden of Disease Group in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and an Affiliate Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) based out of the University of Washington in Seattle and a member of the Disease Control Priorities Project.[2][3]
Career
Prior to working at the University of Melbourne, Lopez worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva for 22 years.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Lopez
Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP)
The Disease Control Priorities Project is a joint enterprise of a number of groups,[3] including the University of Washington Department of Global Health, the World Bank, the Fogarty International Center (National Institutes of Health), World Health Organization, Population Reference Bureau, Gates Foundation, and the International Decision Support Initiative.[4][5] Notable editors involved in the project include Dean Jamison, Alan Lopez, Colin Mathers, Christopher J.L. Murray, George Alleyne, Prabhat Jha, and Anne Mills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_Control_Priorities_Project
The John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award is given by the Gairdner Foundation to recognize the world’s top scientists who have made outstanding achievements in Global Health Research.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Gairdner_Global_Health_Award
The Gairdner Foundation was created in 1957 by James Arthur Gairdner (1893-1971).
Board of directors
A 14-member Board of Directors consisting of three members of the Gairdner family and twelve leading figures in Canadian business and scientific life oversee the work of the Foundation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gairdner_Foundation#Board_of_directors
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