Lifespan gap between counties grows; life expectancies for black Americans improve greatly.
2012
April 19, 2012
News Release
March 15, 2012
News Release
A paper co-authored by Dr. Abraham Flaxman, Assistant Professor at IHME, has been given a Best Paper Award by ACM DEV 2012, the Second Annual Symposium on Computing for Development.
February 1, 2012
News Release
Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought, but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly as efforts to combat the disease have ramped up.
2011
December 14, 2011
News Release
Developed countries and funding agencies are putting the brakes on growth in development assistance for health, raising the possibility that developing countries will have an even harder time meeting the Millennium Development Goal deadline looming in 2015.
October 31, 2011
News Release
New research shows that innovative and improved methods for analyzing verbal autopsies – a method of determining individuals’ causes of death in countries without a complete vital registration system – are fast, effective, and inexpensive, and could be invaluable for countries struggling to understand disease trends.
October 11, 2011
News Release
An ambitious, large-scale HIV/AIDS public health program prevented an estimated 100,000 new infections over five years in the parts of India hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic, indicating that HIV prevention programs that target high-risk groups can reduce HIV rates in the broader population.
September 19, 2011
News Release
With four years left for countries to achieve international targets for saving the lives of mothers and children, more than half the countries around the world are lowering maternal mortality and child mortality at an accelerated rate, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
September 14, 2011
News Release
The number of cases and deaths from breast and cervical cancer are rising in most countries, especially in the developing world where more women are dying at younger ages, according to a new global analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
September 6, 2011
News Release
Children who live in households that own at least one insecticide-treated bed net are less likely to be infected with malaria and less likely to die from the disease, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
September 1, 2011
News Release
IHME faculty contributed articles to The Lancet’s special series on health in Japan, published August 30, 2011.
July 13, 2011
News Release
Esri, the world’s largest data mapping company, applauds the Institute’s ingenuity in tracking global health trends over time.
June 15, 2011
News Release
While people in Japan, Canada, and other nations are enjoying significant gains in life expectancy every year, most counties within the United States are falling behind, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
March 25, 2011
Announcement
Ali Mokdad, PhD, Professor of Global Health at IHME, was awarded the 2011 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR).
March 14, 2011
News Release
A wealth of maternal and child health data is being made immediately and freely accessible through a new collaboration between the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Reproductive Health.
March 7, 2011
News Release
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington has created a user-friendly, searchable data catalog for global health, public health, and demographic data. The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) offers a robust search engine and intuitive user interface to make finding data easy.
March 1, 2011
News Release
Millions of people worldwide may be at risk of early death from diabetes and related cardiovascular illnesses because of poor diagnosis and ineffective treatment, a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington shows.
February 1, 2011
Announcement
Join researchers, policymakers, and global health leaders from around the world to share groundbreaking advances in health measurement and tackle contentious debates at the first conference of its kind, “Global Health Metrics & Evaluation: Controversies, Innovation, Accountability.”
2010
November 30, 2010
News Release
The worst global economic crisis in decades has not stopped public and private donors from giving record amounts of money to health assistance for developing countries, according to a new report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
August 17, 2010
News Release
In countries susceptible to malaria the number of households that own an insecticide-treated bed net – the chief defense against mosquitos – has grown 16 times over the past decade, according to new research.
June 4, 2010
News Release
An innovative program in India that pays women to give birth in a health facility appears to be saving newborns’ lives and lowering the number of stillbirths, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI).
May 24, 2010
News Release
Worldwide mortality in children younger than 5 years has dropped from 11.9 million deaths in 1990 to 7.7 million deaths in 2010, a rate of decline that is faster than expected, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
April 29, 2010
News Release
Women’s health is improving faster than men’s, and high-income countries such as the US trail countries that spend less on health care, including Costa Rica, Tunisia, and Albania.
April 12, 2010
News Release
The number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes has dropped by more than 35% in the past 30 years – from more than a half-million deaths annually in 1980 to about 343,000 in 2008, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and collaborators at the University of Queensland.
April 9, 2010
News Release
The commitment to health by country governments in the developing world has grown dramatically over the last two decades, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School. Overall domestic government spending on health doubled in low-income countries over 12 years to reach $18 billion in 2006, the study shows.
January 6, 2010
News Release
Health reform in the US could fall far short of its promise if critical steps aren’t taken to make improvements that are measureable, impactful, and local, say the authors of a groundbreaking study that ranked the US health care system 37th in the world.