Seyed Karimi, Ph.D., is an associate professor of health economics at the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences (SPHIS). He is the director of the Ph.D. program at the Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences within the SPHIS. He also holds the health economist position at the Center for Health Equity (CHE) at the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness (LMPHW). He collaborates with the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) in the Global Burden of Disease project. His research interests are health policy evaluation, modeling health care delivery and finance, environmental health, modeling infectious disease transmission, and burden of disease estimation.