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American global health researcher (born 1962)

Christopher J.L. Murray^[1][2] (born August 16, 1962) is an American physician, health economist, and global health researcher. He is a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is chair of Health Metrics Science and the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).^[3]

Beginning in 1990, he has worked on ways to measure the burden of disease and disability around the globe. He has led several projects to gather that data, disease-by-disease, country by country. The aim of these efforts, which involves the work of hundreds of researchers, is to provide data for policy makers around the world to allocate healthcare resources.

Early life

Murray was born to a New Zealand-born scientist father and grew up in Minnesota with three siblings, including Megan B. Murray.^[4] As his father was an internist and mother was a micro Uw biography of christopher cross!