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2015

January 28, 2015
ABCE data reveal gains and gaps in health system capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
Announcement

Health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa report providing a range of health services, but deficits in stocking critical medical supplies and equipment may compromise their full capacity to deliver care. This is one of many findings from the Access, Bottlenecks, Costs, and Equity (ABCE) project, a multicountry study that aims to assess the drivers of health system performance and costs of care.

2014

December 17, 2014
Life expectancy increases globally as death toll falls from major diseases
News Release

People are living much longer worldwide than they were two decades ago, as death rates from infectious diseases and cardiovascular disease have fallen, according to a new, first-ever journal publication of country-specific cause-of-death data for 188 countries.

December 17, 2014
Mortality from interpersonal violence falls in the United States, more lives are lost to chronic kidney disease
News Release

Life expectancy improved for both men and women in the United States, at an average of 3.5 years gained since 1990. But at the same time a number of diseases, including chronic kidney disease and Alzheimer's disease, claimed more lives in the United States in 2013 than in 1990.

October 8, 2014
University of Washington Center for Demography and Economics of Aging established at IHME
Announcement

IHME is pleased to announce the establishment of the University of Washington Center for Demography and Economics of Aging. Funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), the new Center joins 11 NIA Demography Centers at leading universities and policy organizations around the United States and is the only new Center for 2014.

September 29, 2014
Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero wins Roux Prize for using data to address violence as a public health crisis in Cali, Colombia
News Release

Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist and mayor of Cali, Colombia, is the first winner of the Roux Prize, a new US$100,000 award for turning evidence into health impact and the largest prize of its kind.

September 29, 2014
El Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero gana el Premio Roux por usar datos para abordar la violencia como una crisis de salud pública en Cali, Colombia
News Release

El Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero, un epidemiólogo educado en Harvard, y alcalde de Cali, Colombia, es el primer ganador del Premio Roux, un premio nuevo de US$100,000 por convertir la evidencia en una influencia sobre la salud y el mayor premio en su clase.

July 21, 2014
Deaths and infections from HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria plummet globally
News Release

New HIV infections dropped by almost one-third from the epidemic peak; TB deaths declined by 3.7% between 2000 and 2013; child deaths from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa have dropped 31.5% in the past decade. Despite major progress, the quality of programs to treat HIV varies widely.

July 21, 2014
Deaths and infections from HIV and tuberculosis decline sharply in US
News Release

HIV/AIDS deaths dropped from a peak of more than 40,000 in 1995 to around 10,000 in 2013, and TB deaths declined at a rate of 3.7% since 2000. New TB cases are declining faster than the global average, but new HIV/AIDS cases are increasing.

May 28, 2014
Nearly one-third of the world’s population is obese or overweight, new data show
News Release

Today, 2.1 billion people – nearly 30% of the world’s population – are either obese or overweight, according to a new, first-of-its kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries. The rise in global obesity rates over the last three decades has been substantial and widespread, presenting a major public health epidemic in both the developed and the developing world.

May 28, 2014
The vast majority of American adults are overweight or obese, and weight is a growing problem among US children
News Release

An estimated 160 million Americans are either obese or overweight. Nearly three-quarters of American men and more than 60% of women are obese or overweight. These are also major challenges for America’s children – nearly 30% of boys and girls under age 20 are either obese or overweight, up from 19% in 1980.

May 2, 2014
Sharp decline in maternal and child deaths globally, new data show
News Release

Since the start of an international effort to address maternal and child mortality, millions of lives have been saved globally, a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington shows.

April 8, 2014
Global health funding reaches new high as funding priorities shift
News Release

Global health funding hit an all-time high of $31.3 billion in 2013, five times greater than in 1990. Yet with 3.9% growth from 2012 to 2013, the year-over-year increase falls short of the rapid rates seen over the previous decade, according to new research by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington being published online in a web first edition on April 8 by Health Affairs.

March 31, 2014
Safer, Cleaner Transport Crucial for Improving Global Health, Report Shows
News Release

Safer and cleaner road transport is critical for achieving health and development goals around the world, according to a new report that—for the first time—assesses the global health loss from the combined impact of road injuries and pollution that can be attributed to motorized transport.

Man smoking in the park
March 24, 2014
Small number of counties lead the way in reducing smoking rates in the US
News Release

Nationally, smoking rates have decreased since 1996, but the declines have been driven by a relatively small share of counties across the US, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

March 10, 2014
Saudi Health Interview Survey finds high rates of chronic diseases in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
News Release

Risk factors including smoking, poor diet, and lack of physical activity are taking their toll, according to a new study by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, working with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

January 28, 2014
Health challenges can be met with new verbal autopsy data-gathering tools
News Release

New research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) shows that verbal autopsy (VA) is a powerful and valid method for data gathering in low-resource settings and points to a newly developed tool as the analytic method of choice.

January 19, 2014
Arab countries living longer but battling chronic disease
News Release

Countries in the Arab world – from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania to Yemen – have made some significant health gains over the past two decades, including increases in life expectancy and swift reductions in child mortality. These are some of the findings published January 20 in “The State of Health in the Arab World, 1990–2010: An Analysis of the Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors.” 

January 7, 2014
Despite declines in smoking rates, number of smokers and cigarettes rises
News Release

Globally, smoking prevalence — the percentage of the population that smokes every day — has decreased, but the number of cigarette smokers worldwide has increased due to population growth, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

2013

November 13, 2013
IHME launches Roux Prize to reward use of Global Burden of Disease evidence to improve health
News Release

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington has launched the Roux Prize, a new US$100,000 award to recognize individuals or groups that have used Global Burden of Disease (GBD) data to take action that makes people healthier.

November 13, 2013
Global Burden of Disease: European Union and Free Trade Association Regional Edition
Announcement

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) will release a new policy report, The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy – European Union and Free Trade Association Regional Edition, at the 6th European Public Health Conference in Brussels.

November 13, 2013
El IHME lanza el Premio Roux para reconocer el uso de la evidencia generada por el estudio sobre la Carga Mundial de Morbilida para mejorar la salud
News Release

El Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) de la Universidad de Washington ha lanzado el Premio Roux, que ofrece 100.000 USD como reconocimiento a aquellos individuos o grupos que hayan utilizado datos del estudio sobre la Carga Mundial de Morbilidad (CMM) para implementar cambios para mejorar la salud de la población.

Julio Frenk wins prestigious Abraham Horwitz Award
October 24, 2013
Julio Frenk wins prestigious Abraham Horwitz Award for Excellence in Leadership in Inter-American Public Health
Announcement

Dr. Julio Frenk, Chair of the Board of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), was awarded the 2013 Abraham Horwitz Award for Excellence in Leadership in Inter-American Public Health (Premio Abraham Horwitz a la Excelencia en Liderazgo en la Salud Pública Interamericana).

New estimates give updated count of Iraq war deaths between 2003 and 2011
October 15, 2013
New estimates give updated count of Iraq war deaths between 2003 and 2011
News Release

During the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq from 2003 to 2011, for every three people killed by violence, two died as a result of the collapse of the infrastructure that supports health care, clean water, nutrition, and transportation, according to new estimates in a study from the University of Washington Department of Global Health published in the open access journal PLOS Medicine. All told, the researchers estimate that nearly a half million people died from causes that could be attributed to the war.

September 4, 2013
Health landscape in six regions reveals rapid progress made and daunting challenges from hundreds of diseases, injuries, risk factors
News Release

In the Middle East and North Africa, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes are causing a massive amount of premature death and disability. People in Latin America and the Caribbean are living longer on the whole, yet they face increasing threats from chronic diseases. Mortality has declined in many South Asian countries, yet the number of deaths by non-communicable diseases and self-harm has skyrocketed since 1990.

August 21, 2013
Growing share of HIV/AIDS burden shifts to changing group of regions
News Release

HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of disease burden in 21 countries concentrated in four regions: Eastern and Southern Africa, Central Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. In another seven countries, it’s the second-leading cause of disease burden. Despite widespread declines in HIV/AIDS mortality, between 2006 and 2010 HIV/AIDS deaths increased in 98 countries.

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