Department of Health Metrics Sciences (HMS) is the world's first academic department devoted to the science of health metrics. Health metrics sciences is an integrated scientific field that is interdisciplinary, bringing together notions, methods, and techniques from statistics, demography, epidemiology, economics, and other social sciences aimed at providing rigorous measurement, using tested and high-performing instruments, to produce indicators that provide the empirical basis to understand the levels, relationships, and trends amongst health outcomes, drivers, and systems. It is a field that relies upon specialized knowledge and is deeply driven by data analysis.