Dr Benn Sartorius

Dr. Benn Sartorius, PhD, is a Senior Geospatial Infectious Disease Modeller and Global Health Epidemiologist based in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr Sartorius is an Official collaborator on the Global Burden of Disease (GDB) Project (IHME, University of Washington) and member of the GBD Scientific Council from 2015. Dr Sartorius is also a member of the WHO 13th General Programme of Work (GPW 13) Metrics Taskforce under the auspices of the WHO Expert Reference Group to accelerate the development of the triple billion methodologies focusing on three strategic priority areas: universal health coverage, health emergencies and healthier population targets. Dr Sartorius's current research is focused on the spatial-temporal modelling of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) prevalence across the global (GRAM project), along with infectious burden of disease spatial-temporal modelling and mapping at smallarea, sub-national, country and global scales.