Abraham Flaxman, PhD

Assistant Professor, Global Health
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
University of Washington

Abraham Flaxman, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. He is currently leading the development of new methods for measuring efficiency of health facilities and is engaged in methodological and operational research on verbal autopsy.

Dr. Flaxman has previously designed software tools such as DisMod-MR that IHME uses to estimate the Global Burden of Disease, and the Bednet Stock-and-Flow Model which has produced estimates of insecticide treated net coverage in sub-Saharan Africa.