A/Prof Benn Sartorius is an established spatial and global health epidemiologist, with a particular interest in the burden of infectious disease and attributable determinants at sub-national, national and global scales as a tool to help inform and optimise policy at national and subnational scales. 

Dr Sartorius is a principal research fellow in UQ's ODeSI team at University of Queensland, affiliate professor in Department of Health Metric Sciences at University of Washington and honorary visiting research fellow at University of Oxford. 

Prior to joining UQ, Dr Sartorius was the principal investigator for the Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project based in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at University of Oxford and also led the Oxford Research Group Anti-Microbial Consumption and Resistance Burden Estimation (MICROBE). 

He has been collaborator on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project since 2014 and the Scientific Council for the GBD Project since 2015. 

Dr Sartorius is a member of the WHO Reference Group on Health Statistics (RGHS) and chair of the Age-Specific Mortality Estimation and Life Table Computation task force.