Hmwe Kyu MPH, PhD

Hmwe Hmwe Kyu, MBBS, MPH, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Health at the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. At IHME, she leads the research team that focuses on modeling the burden of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, diarrheal diseases, lower respiratory infections, upper respiratory infections, meningitis, encephalitis, and otitis media for the institute’s landmark Global Burden of Disease study.

Dr. Kyu’s research interests are in the areas of infectious disease epidemiology, child and adolescent health, systematic review methods, and multilevel modeling. Before joining IHME, she was a postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University and the Offord Centre for Child Studies in Hamilton, Canada, and was a recipient of a Lawson postdoctoral fellowship.

Dr. Kyu earned her medical degree from the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay, Myanmar, her MPH from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, and her PhD in Health Research Methodology from McMaster University in Canada.