Matt Coates, MPH, is a Research Specialist with the NCDI Poverty Network and the Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

In 2016, Coates began working with the Lancet Commission on NCDs and Injuries for the Poorest Billion, conducting analyses for the commission report and supporting national commission work. He has contributed to research about the burden of NCDIs by socioeconomic levels, risk factors for these conditions, the availability of health services for NCDIs in low- and lower-middle-income countries, and potential impact of scaling up coverage of interventions to prevent and manage NCDIs. His general interest is in quantitative modeling to project population impact of policies and interventions, incorporating equity considerations.

Coates is currently pursuing a PhD in Epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned an MPH in Global Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. There, from 2013 to 2016, he contributed to demographic estimates and estimates of disease burden attributable to alcohol consumption for the Global Burden of Disease project.