Joseph L. Dieleman

Joseph Dieleman, PhD, is an associate professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. In this role, he leads the Resource Tracking research team, which focuses on tracking development assistance for health, health-care spending by disease, and government health spending. These projects are split between global research, seeking to understand financial flows for health in a wide variety of contexts, and U.S. research, seeking to describe how health care is purchased in the United States. Dr. Dieleman studied at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, earning his undergraduate degree in economics at the University of Washington, where he received his PhD in economics. He has also spent three years living and working in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

 

Free homemade masks are offered in a front yard amid the COVID-19 outbreak, in Keene, New Hampshire, on April 19, 2020.
Governance

Not All U.S. States Struggled Equally Against COVID-19

by Thomas J. Bollyky, Emma Castro, Joseph L. Dieleman, Isabella Turilli

What the U.S. death toll would have looked like if every state had performed as well as New Hampshire

A worker disinfects a dining room at a sanitary supplies factory, amid growing fears over the spread of COVID-19, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on May 16, 2022.
Governance

Avoiding Health Spending Panic and Neglect

by Kevin O’Rourke, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

The importance of maintaining momentum in health spending

Naveed Ahmed, a doctor, gives medical assistance to Hameeda, who is suffering from malaria, at Sayed Abdullah Shah Institute of Medical Sciences in Sehwan, Pakistan, on September 29, 2022.
Governance

COVID-19 Fueled Record-Breaking Investments in Global Health

by Kevin O’Rourke, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

Examining opportunities and challenges related to development spending

A woman in a red coat and blue mask checks her phone as she walks by a stall with colorful children's puppets
Governance

How the U.S. COVID-19 Response Lost the Plot After Omicron

by Samantha Kiernan, Haley Lescinsky, Joseph L. Dieleman, Thomas J. Bollyky

The reasons why the United States is struggling with COVID-19 are changing

A woman receives a checkup from her primary care physician in Chicago, Illinois, June 28, 2012.
Poverty

The United States Has a Primary Care Problem

by Azalea Thomson, Herbert C. Duber, Kirstin W. Scott, Joseph L. Dieleman

It lags far behind when it comes to providing primary health care for Black and Hispanic Americans

Health care workers holding signs, protest over the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the coronavirus disease (COVID19) outbreak, outside a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, June 19, 2020
Governance

For COVID-19, Development Spending Hasn't Necessarily Matched Need

by Kevin O’Rourke, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

So how should those investments be targeted?

Workers wipe down doors at a train station during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Singapore on August 17, 2020.
Governance

Does Healthier Mean Wealthier? Measuring Countries' Economic Performance During the Pandemic

by Thomas J. Bollyky, Sawyer Crosby, Joseph L. Dieleman, Samantha Kiernan

An effective government response to COVID-19 doesn't necessarily correlate with economic gain

a retired goat herder poses for a photograph in Choklamsar, a village nestled high in the Indian Himalayas, India September 27, 2016. When asked how living in the worlds fastest growing major economy had affected life, Takapa replied: "Traditional values are being lost as we focus on money."
Aging

An Aging World Requires More Support for Health Systems

by Joseph L. Dieleman, Emilie Maddison, Ritu Sadana, Angela E. Micah

Development assistance should reflect this need

Beds at a temporary field hospital set up in a sports complex by Medicines Sans Frontieres during the coronavirus outbreak in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa, on July 21, 2020. The photo shows a large gymnasium with lots of beds in rows. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
Poverty

Health-Systems Strengthening in the Age of COVID-19

by Angela E. Micah, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Joseph L. Dieleman

As the pandemic stresses many health-systems to their breaking point, it’s more important than ever to bolster them now

Image shows a map of the world color coded according to percent of government spending on health in 2017.
Governance

Which Governments Prioritize Health Spending?

by Joseph L. Dieleman, Hayley Stutzman, Angela E. Micah

As COVID-19 causes simultaneous health and economic crises worldwide, it's an opportunity to evaluate health spending

A player checks his cards during the finals of the Russian Masters Poker Cup at the Azov-City, Russia, gambling zone, south of Russia's southern city of Rostov-on-Don, on September 23, 2010. Photo shows a pair of hands holding up the corners of two cards to reveal a pair of aces. A large stack of chips is in the background. REUTERS/Vladimir Konstantinov
Governance

All Bets Are Off for Measuring Pandemic Preparedness

by Sawyer Crosby, Joseph L. Dieleman, Samantha Kiernan, Thomas J. Bollyky

Three standard measures don't predict how countries fare in COVID-19—so how do we better prepare for the next pandemic?

The bar chart shows sources of pandemic preparedness spending, organizations and countries
Governance

Funding Pandemic Preparedness: A Global Public Good

by Hayley Stutzman, Angela E. Micah, Joseph L. Dieleman

Pandemics in a globalized world require global responses. We must be better equipped and funded.