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Seyed Karimi

Assoc Professor

School of Public Health and Information Sciences

Orcid identifier0000-0002-3796-8141
  • Assoc Professor
    School of Public Health and Information Sciences
  • (502)852-0417 (Work)
  • University of Louisville, Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences, 485 E. Gray St, Room 106, Louisville, Kentucky, 40202, United States

BIO

I am a health economist. My work sits at the intersection of microeconomics, statistics, and health policy. Understanding and analyzing the root causes of health inequalities, conducting health policy analysis, and performing economic evaluation in healthcare are primary areas of my research. I am currently an associate professor and interim chair at the Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences at the University of Louisville’s School of Public Health and Information Sciences (SPHIS). I also hold the position of health economist at the Center for Health Equity (CHE) at the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness (LMPHW).

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Interim Chair
    University of Louisville, Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences, Louisville, United States1 Oct 2024
  • Urban Health Policy Endowed Chair
    University of Louisville, Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences, Louisville, United States1 Jul 2023
  • Associate Professor
    University of Louisville, Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences, Louisville, United States1 Jul 2022
  • Health Economist
    Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness (LMPHW), Center for Health Equity, Louisville, United States1 Aug 2019
  • Collaborator
    Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Seattle, United States1 Jan 2016
  • Ph.D. Program Director
    University of Louisville, Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences, Louisville, United States1 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2025
  • Ph.D. Program Co-Director
    Louisville Institute, Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences, Louisville, United States1 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2024
  • Director
    University of Louisville, Commonwealth Institute of Kentucky (CIK), Louisville, United States1 Jul 2022 - 30 Jun 2024
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Louisville, Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences, Louisville, United States1 Aug 2024 - 30 Jun 2022
  • Full-Time Lecturer
    University of Washington Tacoma, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Tacoma, United States1 Sep 2014 - 31 Jul 2019
  • Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Economics, Urbana, United States1 Aug 2007 - 31 May 2014
  • Full-Time Lecturer
    Iran Banking Institute, Economics, Tehran, Iran1 Sep 2004 - 31 Jul 2007
  • Research Fellow
    Institute for Research in Planning and Development, Economics, Tehran, Iran1 Sep 2002 - 31 Aug 2004

DEGREES

  • PhD, Economics
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States2014
  • MS, Industrial Engineering
    Institute for Research and Development, Tehran, Iran2002
  • MS, Electrical Engineering
    Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran2000

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Persian
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Arabic
    Can read