Dr. Greg Roth, MD MPH, FACC, FAHA, leads cardiovascular research at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA. His work focuses on global cardiovascular health surveillance, population health, and quality of care and outcomes for cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure. His research has been funded by the American Heart Association, NHLBI and NIA at the National Institutes of Health (USA) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Roth earned his bachelor’s degree and MD from Brown University and his MPH from the University of Washington, and practices general cardiology and echocardiography at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.