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Editorial board member Alan Lopez wins prestigious Gairdner Award. Watch a video Q&A on his work!

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We feature a video interview from 2014 from Alan Lopez, one of our Editorial Board Members, who recently won the John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award. In this video, Alan discusses his seminal work on estimation of tobacco-related mortality. His ground breaking efforts in estimation of the burden of diseases have had a huge impact on global health and policy. Alan, along with his colleague Christopher Murray, are the most recent laureates of this prestigious health research award.