Dean Jamison

Who is Dean Jamison?

Dean Jamison is an economist and global health researcher. He is a professor of global health at the University of Washington in Seattle and is on the faculty at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. He has also been on the faculty at UCLA, Harvard, University of California, San Francisco, Peking University and the University of Queensland. He has also worked at the National Institute of Health, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization. At the World Bank, he served as director of the World Development Report Office and was lead author of the "World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health." Also, at the WHO, he was lead author of the "World Health Report 1999." He currently is co-leader of the Disease Control Priorities Project, and was lead author of the Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries published in 1993 and of its second edition in 2006. He is also a senior editor of the Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors, a major publication of the Disease Control Priorities Project.

He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University under Kenneth Arrow, and has also published papers in decision theory. His sister is renowned psychologist, Kay Redfield Jamison and his daughter is the author, Leslie Jamison.