The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Scientific Council oversees and makes key scientific decisions about the GBD process and methods. The Council is composed of leading experts in fields related to GBD. It is not a substitute for peer review of publications or periodic reviews from independent groups. A summary of decisions made by the GBD Scientific Council can be downloaded here.
For any questions, please contact the GBD Secretariat at [email protected].
GBD Scientific Council members
Council Chair
Christopher Murray
Council Vice Chair
Alan Lopez
University of Melbourne
Council Secretary
Kelly Bienhoff
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Members
Emilie Agardh
Karolinska Institutet
Peter Allebeck
Karolinska Institutet
Zulfiqar Bhutta
Aga Khan University Medical Center
Susanna Conti
Italian National Institute of Health
Lalit Dandona
Indian Council of Medical Research
Thomas Fürst
Imperial College London
Simon Hay
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Yohannes Kinfu
University of Canberra
Jacek Kopec
University of British Columbia
Xiaofeng Liang
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Stephen Lim
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Rafael Lozano
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Stefan Ma
Singapore Ministry of Health
Deborah Carvalho Malta
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
George Mensah
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Ali Mokdad
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Mohsen Naghavi
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
John Newton
Public Health England
Heather Orpana
Public Health Agency of Canada
Simon Øverland
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
George Patton
University of Melbourne
Hasnani Rangkuti
Directorate of Social Welfare Statistics, Statistics Indonesia
Joshua Salomon
Stanford University
Inbal Salz
Ministry of Health of New Zealand
Zainab Samad
Aga Khan University
Jonathan Samet
University of Colorado
Benn Sartorius
University of Oxford
University of KwaZulu-Natal
University of Washington
Awoke Misganaw Temesgen
Ethiopian Public Health Institute
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Roman Topor-Madry
Jagiellonian University Medical College; Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System
Stein Emil Vollset
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Elena Varavikova
Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of the Ministry of Health of Russia
Theo Vos
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Haidong Wang
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Andrea Werdecker
Federal Institute for Population Research
Harvey Whiteford
University of Queensland
Maigeng Zhou
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention