Simon I. Hay

Professor Simon Iain Hay, DPhil, DSc, FMedSci, is a Professor in the Department of Health Metrics Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of Washington and Director of the Local Burden of Disease group at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). His career has focused on spatial and temporal aspects of infectious disease epidemiology to support the more rational implementation of disease control. He leads an international collaboration of researchers from a wide variety of academic disciplines, with the objective of improving the outputs and outcomes of infectious disease cartography.

A 3-year-old boy named Eduardo holding father Luis’s hand on Nov. 7, 2018. Both are from Central America, where progress toward reducing stunting in children under 5 has been particularly noticeable. Picture shows Eduardo looking up pensively at his father at they walk along a road in what appears to be dusk or pre-dawn dim light. Luis is off-camera and only his arm visible. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Poverty

Rethinking Ways to Address Child Growth Failure

by Simon I. Hay, Tim Exton

Precision health mapping of regional and local targets would help steer limited resources to the places of greatest need