Erin Chung

Erin Chung, MD, MS, is an Acting Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. On the Neonatal and Child Health (NCH) team, her research supports ongoing work for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study to quantify the burden of health loss for child health conditions—including ​neonatal conditions related to prematurity and low birth weight, hemoglobinopathies, and child growth failure—and the development of novel methods to understand the connections among maternal and child health conditions and to better define and identify vulnerable sub-populations.

After joining IHME in 2023, she worked with the Causes of Death, Shocks, Intermediate Causes, and Antimicrobial Resistance (CSIAMR) team on the estimation of the global burden of sepsis and antimicrobial resistance and to define the burden and associated causes of neonatal and pediatric sepsis.

Dr. Chung received her BS in Biology from Amherst College and her MD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed her pediatrics residency at the University of California Irvine and Children’s Hospital of Orange County and her pediatric infectious disease fellowship at the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Hospital, where she sees patients. She received an MS in Epidemiology from the University of Washington.