Stephen S Lim
Adjunct Professor, Health Systems and Population Health
Professor, Health Metrics Sciences
206-897-2811 | stevelim@uw.edu
Research Interests
quality of mortality data, health inequality, risk factor and disease burden, economic evaluation and priority setting
Bio
Dr. Stephen Lim leads the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation’s (IHME) work on monitoring the effective coverage of interventions and health systems. This includes a completed research study on tracking immunization coverage and the impact of the GAVI Alliance’s Immunization Services Support program.
Prior to joining IHME, Dr. Lim was a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland and was based at the Ministry of Public Health in Thailand, where he led a major project on health information system capacity building with a focus on burden of disease and cost-effectiveness analysis
For more information, see his profile.
Education
PhD Epidemiology, Health Economics, Monash University (Australia), 2005
BA Philosophy, Psychology, Monash University (Australia), 1998
BS Pharmacology, Monash University (Australia), 1998
News
Catching COVID-19 gives you ‘durable’ protection from virus, study finds
YakTriNews, 02/24/2023
From gene editing to death traps, Seattle scientists innovate in race to end malaria
Reuters Africa, 11/01/2016
Britain ranked 5th healthiest country, while the US is 28th on the list
DailyMail U.K., 09/22/2016
Sugary drinks take a deathly toll
New York Times, 07/01/2015
Nets protect against malaria, scientists say (but you already knew that)
KPLU/Humanosphere, 09/09/2011
Diabetes Out of Control in Many Countries, Study Says
Fox, 03/03/2011