Zika: Q&A with the mapping expert
We’ve been looking at quicker mapping techniques that can help in emergencies. This means that when a novel pathogen comes out, we can quickly find the areas in which it, and perhaps its ...
Simon Hay is a Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington and Director of Geospatial Science at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). Prof. Hay obtained his doctorates from the University of Oxford where he remains a member of congregation, a Research Fellow in the Sciences and Mathematics at St John's College and a Professor of Epidemiology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. He has published over 290 peer-reviewed and other contributions, including two research monographs; these are cited collectively more than 5000 times each year, leading to an h-index of >80 and >23,500 lifetime citations.
Prof. Hay was awarded the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London (2008), the Back Award of the Royal Geographical Society (2012), the Bailey K. Ashford Medal of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2013) and the Chalmers Memorial Medal of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2015). Prof. Hay has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and served as its 52nd President (2013-2015). He has also been elected to the fellowship of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences.
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