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2014 Roux Prize winner Rodrigo Guerrero with David and Barbara Roux

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People living longer worldwide

Photo by UN/John, photo ID 387975. India, 2009

Pattern of deaths shifts toward non-communicable diseases and injuries

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Data for Impact

Learn how to how to unlock data, put them in an accessible format, and ultimately create impact.

Acting on Data

Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero has dedicated his career to bettering his community by preventing violence in what has historically been one of the most violent cities in the world.

Life expectancy map

New data visualization shows life expectancy and probability of death from different causes worldwide.

GBD

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) is the most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide.

Research Article

January 20, 2015

Deconstructing the differences: a comparison of GBD 2010 and CHERG’s approach to estimating the mortality burden of diarrhea, pneumonia, and their etiologies

Pneumonia and diarrhea are leading causes of death for children under 5 (U5). It is challenging to estimate the total number of deaths and cause-specific mortality fractions. Two major efforts, one led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the other led by the World Health Organization (WHO)/Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG) created estimates for the burden of disease due to these two syndromes, yet their estimates differed greatly for 2010.

Research Article

December 17, 2014

Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality is essential for the formation of global, regional, and national health policies. In the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (GBD 2013) we estimated yearly deaths for 188 countries between 1990 and 2013. We used the results to assess whether there is epidemiological convergence across countries.

Policy Report

November 11, 2014

Pushing the Pace: Progress and Challenges in Fighting Childhood Pneumonia

Pushing the Pace: Progress and Challenges in Fighting Childhood Pneumonia examines recent gains in reducing child deaths from pneumonia. This report advances our understanding of the burden of childhood pneumonia and its toll within the context of the leading killers of children; global trends in funding to address pneumonia; and health system factors involved in the effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pneumonia.