Annie Haakenstad

Annie Haakenstad is an assistant professor in health metrics sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. 

A worker hoses down bright orange seats in the stands at Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Ahmedabad India, on February 17, 2021.
Governance

Why It's Hard to Understand How COVID-19 Affected Global Health System Performance

by Anna Gage, Annie Haakenstad

Universal health coverage examined through the lens of tuberculosis

A girl dressed in white walks knee-deep in water after heavy rains and floods in the town of Pibor, Boma state, South Sudan, on November 6, 2019.
Gender

Family Planning: Global Disparities Persist

by Corinne Bintz, Annie Haakenstad, Susan A. McLaughlin

Contraception access and options need to improve to help empower women, young people

A physician with Doctors Without Borders (MSF) places his stethoscope to the chest of hospital patient Marco Vargas, who has COVID, in Caracas, Venezuela, on February 1, 2022.
Governance

A Help Wanted Sign for Health Workers

by Annie Haakenstad, Megan Knight

What the ratio of doctors to nurses in Bangladesh and the Philippines tells us about the global health worker shortage