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Christopher J. L. Murray

Also Known As Chris Murray
Epidemiology and Statistics

Christopher J. L. Murray is an American physician and health economist who, with Alan Lopez, pioneered the Global Burden of Disease approach to measuring health loss and helped develop the disability-adjusted life year as its central metric. He has served as founding Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington since 2007, after directing the World Health Organization's Evidence and Information for Policy cluster from 1998 to 2003. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1962 1
Birth Date
1962-08-15 1
Nationality
American 1
Notable For
Co-developed the disability-adjusted life year and pioneered the Global Burden of Disease Study with Alan Lopez beginning in 1990; founding Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation since 2007. 1
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Christopher James Livingstone Murray (born August 16, 1962) is an American physician and health economist serving as a professor at the University of Washington and as the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a global health research institute best known for coordinating the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study.
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