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Simon I Hay, DPhil, DSc, FMedSci, is a Professor in the Department of Health Metrics Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of Washington and Director of Research Strategy at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Prof. Hay obtained his doctorates from the University of Oxford where he remains a member of congregation. He has published >700 peer-reviewed and other publications with an h-index of >255 and was named a highly cited researcher by the Clarivate Web of Science Group from 2018 to 2025 inclusive. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) in 2012 and served as its 52nd President (2013-2015). Prof. Hay has received numerous awards, notably the Back Award of the Royal Geographical Society (2012) for research contributing to public health policy, and the Bailey K. Ashford Medal (2013) and the Chalmers Medal (2015) of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the RSTMH respectively, for distinguished work in tropical medicine. He was elected to the fellowship of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2015, and in 2019 he was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.