Ashkan Afshin, MD ScD

Ashkan Afshin, MD ScD, is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.1 He is a physician and epidemiologist with expertise in health policy, population health, decision sciences, public health informatics, and health economics.1

Dr. Afshin's educational background includes:

• MD from Tehran University of Medical Sciences
• MPH from Johns Hopkins University
• MSc in Health Policy from Harvard University
• Dual ScD in Epidemiology and Global Health and Population from Harvard University14

In addition to his academic role, Dr. Afshin is the Founder and CEO of Novelna, a biotech company.25 He has experience in both academia and the private sector, focusing on health metrics, evaluation, and nutrition science.5

Dr. Afshin's research contributions include:

• Working on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project to improve diagnostic tests using dietary risk factors information1
• Publishing numerous studies on global health, nutrition, and disease burden in prestigious journals such as The Lancet and Nature Medicine1

His LinkedIn username is aafshin.3