Health system data from four countries now publicly available

Photo by Energy for All 2030/Flikr Creative Commons. Ghana, 2009

Now accepting 2015 Roux Prize nominations

2014 Roux Prize winner Rodrigo Guerrero with David and Barbara Roux

Reports reveal gains & gaps in sub-Saharan Africa health system capacity

Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Africa Public Affairs. Kenya, 2010

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GBD Technical Training

Learn from the creators of the Global Burden of Disease study. May 12-22, 2015 – Negroponte Resort, Greece

Acting on Data

China's work on the Global Burden of Disease project inspires policy change.

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.

Policy Report

January 28, 2015

Health Service Provision in Ghana: Assessing Facility Capacity and Costs of Care

This report draws from the Access, Bottlenecks, Costs, and Equity (ABCE) project in Ghana, a multipronged and multicountry research collaboration focused on understanding what drives and hinders health service provision

Research Article

January 26, 2015

Validating estimates of prevalence of non-communicable diseases based on household surveys: the symptomatic diagnosis study

Easy-to-collect epidemiological information is critical for the more accurate estimation of the prevalence and burden of different non-communicable diseases around the world. The objective of this study was to develop and assess the performance of a symptom-based questionnaire to estimate prevalence of non-communicable diseases in low-resource areas

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.

Upcoming Events

March 4, 2015

Using big data to improve health at the local level

Cristian Baeza

Los Altos Hills, CA

March 29, 2015

Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation Conference

William Heisel

New Haven, CT

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent global health research center at the University of Washington.