GBD 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Collaborators
Ali H. Mokdad, PhD (corresponding author), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Charbel El Bcheraoui, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Raghid Charara, MD, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. Ibrahim Khalil, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, MD, Department of Community Medicine, Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Research Center (GILDRC), Preventative Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Ashkan Afshin, MD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Michael Collison, BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Farah Daoud, BA/BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Kristopher J. Krohn, BA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Adrienne Chew, ND, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington. Stan Biryukov, BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Daniel Casey, BA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Kelly Cercy, BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Fiona J. Charlson, PhD, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, United States; Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Leslie Cornaby, BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Daniel Dicker, BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Holly E. Erskine, PhD, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States. Alize J. Ferrari, PhD, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Christina Fitzmaurice, MD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Kyle J. Foreman, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States; Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. Maya Fraser, BA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Joseph Frostad, MPH, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. William W. Godwin, BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Max Griswold, MA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Nicholas J. Kassebaum, MD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States; Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States. Laura Kemmer, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Michael Kutz, BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Hmwe H. Kyu, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Janni Leung, PhD, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia; University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States. Patrick Liu, BA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Joseph Mikesell, BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Grant Nguyen, MPH, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Helen E. Olsen, MA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Robert Reiner, BA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Marissa Reitsma, BS, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Gregory Roth, MD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Damian Santomauro, PhD, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States. Alison Smith, BA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Jeffrey D. Stanaway, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Patrick Sur, BA, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Haidong Wang, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Harvey A. Whiteford, PhD, School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, United States. Rima Afifi, PhD, Department of Health Promotion and Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. Aliasghar Ahmad Kiadaliri, PhD, Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Orthopedics, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Alireza Ahmadi, PhD, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, Stockholm, Sweden. Hamid Ahmadieh, MD, Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran; Department of Ophthalmology, Labbafinejad Medical Center, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Khurshid Alam, PhD, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia; The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Noore Alam, MAppEpid, Department of Health, Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Nathan, Queensland, Australia. Raghib Ali, FRCP, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, PhD, Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Mazandaran, Iran. Rajaa Al-Raddadi, PhD, Joint Program of Family and Community Medicine, Jeddah, Makkah, Saudi_Arabia. Khalid A. Altirkawi, MD, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi_Arabia. Nahla Anber, PhD, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. Hossein Ansari, PhD, Health Promotion Research Center, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. Palwasha Anwari, MD, Self-employed, Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan. Hamid Asayesh, PhD, Department of Medical Emergency, School of Paramedic, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran. Solomon W. Asgedom, PhD, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia. Tesfay Mehari Atey, MS, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia. Umar Bacha, PhD, School of Health Sciences, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, PhD, College of Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States; David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States. Neeraj Bedi, MD, College of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Jazan, Saudi_Arabia. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, PhD, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan; Centre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada. Donal Bisanzio, PhD, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Zahid A. Butt, PhD, Al Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Amare Deribew, PhD, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya. Shirin Djalalinia, PhD, Undersecretary for Research & Technology, Ministry of Health & Medical Education, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Babak Eshrati, PhD, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Tehran, Iran; Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran. Alireza Esteghamati, MD, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Maryam S. Farvid, PhD, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States; Harvard/MGH Center on Genomics, Vulnerable Populations, and Health Disparities, Mongan Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States. Farshad Farzadfar, MD, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, PhD, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Florian Fischer, PhD, School of
Public Health, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Tsegaye T. Gebrehiwot, MPH, Jimma University, Jimma, Oromia, Ethiopia. Nima Hafezi-Nejad, MD, Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Randah R. Hamadeh, DPhil, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain. Samer Hamidi, DrPH, Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, Dubai, united_arab_emirates. Peter J. Hotez, PhD, College of Medicine, Baylor University, Houston, Texas, United States. Mohamed Hsairi, MD, Department of Epidemiology, Salah Azaiz Institute, Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia. Jost B. Jonas, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany, Germany. Amir Kasaeian, PhD, Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran; Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Yousef S. Khader, ScD, Department of Community Medicine, Public Health and Family Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Irbid, Jordan. Ejaz A. Khan, MD, Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Punjab, Pakistan. Gulfaraz Khan, PhD, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, united_arab_emirates. Abdullah T. A. Khoja, MD, Mohammed Ibn Saudi University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saudi_Arabia; Baltimore, MD, United States. Tawfik A. M. Khoja, FRCP, Executive Board of the Health Ministers’ Council for Cooperation Council States, Riyadh, Al-Riyadh, Saudi_Arabia. Jagdish Khubchandani, PhD, Department of Nutrition and Health Science, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, United States. Jacek A. Kopec, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Heidi J. Larson, PhD, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States. Raimundas Lunevicius, PhD, Aintree University Hospital National Health Service Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom; School of Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, MBBCH, Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt. Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek, MBBCh, Aswan University Hospital, Aswan Faculty of Medicine, Aswan, Egypt. Reza Majdzadeh, PhD, Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Azeem Majeed, MD, Department of Primary Care & Public Health, Imperial College London, London, England, United Kingdom. Reza Malekzadeh, MD, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Ziad A. Memish, MD, Saudi Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi_Arabia; College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi_Arabia. George A. Mensah, MD, Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States. Jamal T. Nasher, MSc, Ministry of Public Health and Population, Sana’a, Yemen. Carla M. Obermeyer, DSc, Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. Farshad Pourmalek, PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mostafa Qorbani, PhD, Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran. Amir Radfar, MD, A T Still University, Kirksville, MO, United States. Anwar Rafay, MS, Contech International Health Consultants, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan; Contech School of Public Health, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, MD, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Rajesh Kumar Rai, MPH, Society for Health and Demographic Surveillance, Suri, West Bengal, India. David L. Rawaf, MD, MBBS, WHO Collaborating Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; North Hampshire Hospitals, Basingstroke, United Kingdom; University College London Hospitals, London, United Kingdom. Salman Rawaf, MD, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. Amany H. Refaat, PhD, Walden University, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Ismailia, Egypt. Satar Rezaei, PhD, School of Public Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran. Gholamreza Roshandel, PhD, Golestan Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran; Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mahdi Safdarian, MD, Sina Trauma & Surgery Research Center, Tehran, Iran. Sare Safi, MS, Ophthalmic Epidemiology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Saeid Safiri, PhD, Managerial Epidemiology Research Center, Department of Public Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran. Mohammad Ali Sahraian, MD, MS Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Payman Salamati, MD, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Abdallah M. Samy, PhD, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Benn Sartorius, PhD, Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South_Africa; UKZN Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Centre, South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), Durban, South_Africa. Sadaf G. Sepanlou, PhD, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Masood A. Shaikh, MD, Independent Consultant, Karachi, Pakistan. Morteza Shamsizadeh, MPH, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran. Badr H. A. Sobaih, MD, king Saud university, Riyadh, middle province, Saudi_Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, MD, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi_Arabia. Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, PhD, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Mohamad-Hani Temsah, MD, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi_Arabia; King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi_Arabia. Abdullah S. Terkawi, MD, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States; Department of Anesthesiology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi_Arabia; Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, United States. Roman Topor-Madry, PhD, Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland; Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland. Olalekan A. Uthman, PhD, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom. Stein Emil Vollset, DrPH, Center for Disease Burden, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen, NA, Norway; Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States. Andrea Werdecker, PhD, Competence Center Mortality-Follow-Up of the German National Cohort, Federal Institute for Population Research, Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany. Mohsen Yaghoubi, MA, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Mehdi Yaseri, PhD, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Terhan, Tehran, Iran; Ophthalmic Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Mustafa Z. Younis, DrPH, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, United States. Maysaa E. S. Zaki, PhD, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. Aisha O. Jumaan, PhD, Independent Consultant, Seattle, Washington, United States. Theo Vos, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Mohsen Naghavi, PhD, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Simon I. Hay, DSc, Oxford Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States. Christopher J. L. Murray, DPhil, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States.