Dr. Chris Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation explains a new focus on forecasting possible relaxation of social distancing.
2020
24 April, 2020
IHME Editorial Coordinator, Rebecca Sirull, talks about her experience participating in a clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine.
26 March, 2020
Data Story
Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, describes the trajectory of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic based on new data analyses and forecasting.
8 February, 2020
Preparedness is key when tackling a novel pathogen like 2019-nCoV. Dr. David Pigott, assistant professor and spatial epidemiologist at IHME, discusses the importance of prevention, detection, and treatment in response to an epidemic.
8 January, 2020
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study, "Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries."
2019
22 October, 2019
Data Story
The Roux Prize is intended for anyone who has applied burden of disease research in innovative ways to improve population health. We are now accepting nominations for 2020.
16 October, 2019
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant, and child deaths between 2000 and 2017."
24 June, 2019
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in China and its provinces 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017."
10 June, 2019
Data Story
Dr. Richard Horton, the “activist editor” of the international medical journal The Lancet, has been honored for his accomplishments as one of the world’s most “committed, articulate, and influential advocates for population health.”
15 May, 2019
Data Story
Dr. John Nkengasong and Dr. Laura Dwyer Lindgren discuss a new study on mapping HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
15 May, 2019
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017."
25 April, 2019
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Tracking spending on malaria by source in 106 countries, 2000–16: an economic modelling study."
14 March, 2019
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016."
14 March, 2019
Event
Panelists discuss the links between democratic governance and global health.
2018
20 December, 2018
Training/Instructional
Verbal autopsy (VA) is a method of determining individuals’ causes of death and cause-specific mortality fractions in populations without a complete vital registration system. Dr. Abraham Flaxman explains the importance of verbal autopsy and how updated software is improving this method.
16 October, 2018
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Forecasting life expectancy, years of life lost, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 250 causes of death: reference and alternative scenarios for 2016–40 for 195 countries and territories using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016."
26 September, 2018
Data Story
Dr. Cynthia Maung, a Burmese physician and director of a clinic in Thailand, will be awarded $100,000 for using health data to improve the lives of refugees, migrant workers, and internally displaced people along the Burmese-Thai border.
19 September, 2018
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Variation in childhood diarrheal morbidity and mortality in Africa, 2000–2015."
18 September, 2018
Data Story
IHME commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Spanish Flu, which reportedly caused one-third of the world to become sick and killed an estimated 100 million people. It was possibly the deadliest epidemic in human history. The resulting public health response set forth new standards and new fields of research in population health to help prevent and prepare for future outbreaks.
6 September, 2018
Promotional
An animation created for World Suicide Prevention Day (2018).
6 September, 2018
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Progress toward eliminating TB and HIV deaths in Brazil, 2001–2015: a spatial assessment."
28 August, 2018
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Global mortality from firearms, 1990−2016."
23 August, 2018
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016."
2 June, 2018
Promotional
An animation to accompany the study titled, "Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2016."
25 May, 2018
Training/Instructional
This webinar is designed primarily for researchers and others interested in more technical information on the methods used to map child growth failure as part of the Global Burden of Disease study.