Emi Suzuki is a Demographer in the Development Data Group of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ with over 20 years of experience with the Bank¡¯s demographic and health statistics. Her areas of interest are population, demography, health statistics, and global health monitoring. She currently leads the work to produce high-quality population, demographic, and health statistics in the and . She maintains strong collaborative partnerships with internal and external teams, including the UN Population Division, UNICEF, WHO, academia, as well as the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳¡¯s Health Nutrition Population (HNP) unit, Fragile Conflict & Violence (FCV) unit, and their country units.
She represents the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ in various SDG inter-agency groups in the generation of maternal mortality estimates (SDG 3.1), child mortality estimates (SDG 3.2) and child malnutrition estimates (SDG 2.2) in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and/or the UN Population Division. She also represents the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ in the Expert Group on Refugee, IDP and Statelessness Statistics (EGRISS) jointly with the Fragility, Conflict & Violence (FCV) unit.
Emi holds a Ph.D. in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her work has been published in academic journals, and she frequently contributes to ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ blogs on public health issues such as maternal and child mortality, refugee statistics, and topics in demography.
