Talk:Colin Mathers

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I received a comment that this article was missing crucial information about Mathers' accomplishments, and I think that's a productive criticism. This is a note to myself to fix that. Maybe I could pull out a mention from the popular press. I saw that Mathers has been quoted in the press before. Maybe I can even get Mathers himself to comment. =) Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 12:17, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
 * I've emailed Colin and asked him if he might reply here. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. ) while signing a reply, thx 12:04, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Biosthmors, happy to provide a bit more information that you can use as you wish. If you need references, or anything else, let me know. Colin

Colin Mathers is a senior scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) who specializes in cause of death statistics and projections, burden of disease estimates, and the measurement and reporting of population health and its determinants. He has played a key role at WHO in the development of comparable estimates of healthy life expectancy for 192 countries, in the updating of the global burden of disease study and publication of regular updates by WHO, and in the development of software tools to support burden of disease analysis at country level. In 2006, he published a highly cited paper on projections of global causes of death to year 2030 [REF1]; these cause of death projections were updated recently for WHO [REF2]. He leads the WHO Mortality and Burden of Disease Unit which produces regular updates of child and maternal mortality, life expectancy and estimates of deaths by cause, age and sex for the 194 Member States of WHO, in collaboration with other UN agencies, the World Bank and academic collaborators. He oversees the annual publication of the WHO flagship publication World Health Statistics, which is closely linked to WHO’s Global Health Observatory (www.who.int/gho). He has collaborated with leading researchers throughout the world on issues relating to the development and applications of summary measures of population health and in monitoring trends in global health. He has authored or edited 30 books and major reports, over 50 book chapters and over 100 journal articles in peer-reviewed publications.[1] Mathers received his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Sydney in 1979. While completing his PhD, he developed an interest in population health and epidemiology, and subsequently was involved in the development of a congenital malformations monitoring system for Australia. From 1987, Mathers worked for the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for 13 years in technical and senior managerial posts. During this period, he published the first national study of hospital costs and utilization for Australia (Ref if needed) and the first Australian Burden of Disease study (also ref if needed). Mathers joined the WHO in 2000 and since 2002 has managed the WHO production of mortality and burden of disease statistics. [2] REF 1. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030442 REF2 http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/projections/en/index.html [1] Google scholar Matherscd (talk) 12:27, 14 November 2013 (UTC)

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