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Susanna Makela PDF Print

Research Fellow

Susanna is a B.Sc. graduate in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in the US. After graduation, she spent two years as a Post-Bachelor Fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, Washington. While at IHME, Susanna developed methods to improve the quality of cause-of-death data for use in the Global Burden of Disease Study. At PHFI, she is working on the Social Determinants of Health project, specifically in analyzing the relationship between state expenditure on social services and child mortality. She plans on pursuing a Ph.D. in statistics or biostatistics in the future

Areas of Interest:

The application of statistical and quantitative methods to global health issues

Publications:

  • Myerson R, Makela S, Chandrasekhar C, Mathew S, Chakraborty S. “Determinants of condom uptake among HIV voluntary counselling and testing clients: experiences from a hospital-based study in south India”, BMC Health Services 2012, 12(13), 11 January 2012.
  • Naghavi M, Makela S, Foreman K, O’Brien J, Pourmalek F, Lozano R. “Algorithms for enhancing public health utility of national causes-of-death data”, Population Health Metrics, 8(9), 10 May 2010.
  • Hogan MC, Foreman KJ, Naghavi M, Ahn SY, Wang M, Makela S, et al. “Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5”, Lancet, 375(9726), 1609-1623, 8 May 2010.