Hugh Waters is Director of Health Economics Research at the Milken Institute, where he leads work on measuring the health impacts and economic costs of health risk factors and health disparities. He is an expert in the application of quantitative methods to evaluate health policies and programs. Dr. Waters has more than 20 years of experience working with public health programs, both in the U.S. and internationally. He was previously a full-time faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the University of North Carolina. He has a PhD in Public Health Economics from Johns Hopkins and a M.S. in International Economics from Georgetown University. He speaks French and Spanish.