**Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor**

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor leads the Health Inequality Monitoring Team at the Department of Data and Analytics of the World Health Organization. He has conceptualized and coordinated the development of resources and tools in this area, including the Health Inequality Data Repository, the WHO global platform for disaggregated health data; the WHO Health Equity Assessment Toolkit (HEAT), a software application to explore and compare health inequalities; the WHO Handbook and step-by-step manuals on Health Inequality Monitoring, resources to strengthen and guide the development of health inequality monitoring; and a series of WHO thematic global inequality reports. Dr. Hosseinpoor is the lead author of a number of peer-reviewed articles quantifying inequalities in health, both at the national and global, as well as methodological articles such as decomposition and summary measures of health inequality. He holds an MD and a PhD in Epidemiology.
