In addition to its core research, IHME leads a number of special research projects focusing on the Global Burden of Disease, health resource allocation, malaria control, and population health measurement and evaluation. IHME is collaborating with hundreds of public health experts and researchers around the world on these projects.

Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN)

The goal of DCPN is to improve how health resources are allocated in countries by producing estimates of the costs and cost effectiveness of interventions and health service delivery platforms.

Gavi Full Country Evaluations

The Gavi Alliance is a public-private partnership that funds and improves access to vaccination in the world’s poorest countries. Gavi selected IHME to lead a prospective evaluation of its immunization programs in Bangladesh, India, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia.

Global Burden of Disease (GBD)

GBD is the most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. It is the product of a global research collaborative and quantifies the impact of hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors in countries around the world.

HealthRise

IHME is partnering with Medtronic Philanthropy to evaluate a program to improve heart disease and diabetes care for underserved populations.

Improving Methods to Measure Comparable Mortality by Cause

To provide critical information for planning government facilities, policies, and interventions, IHME is working with collaborators in four countries to improve the understanding of leading causes of death in areas with poor or nonexistent vital registration systems.

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Health Tracking (KSA)

The goal of this project is to provide a burden of disease study at the national and subnational levels and create an integrated surveillance system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in order to regularly update estimates of the burden of conditions and risk factors.

Malaria Control Policy Assessment (MCPA)

IHME is evaluating the contribution of malaria control interventions to the reductions in under-5 mortality in Zambia and Uganda by producing and analyzing subnational estimates of intervention coverage.

Monitoring Disparities in Chronic Conditions Study: The MDCC Study

This project will explore disparities in chronic disease among US communities by designing a cost-effective and easily scalable data collection system to track such diseases and their accompanying risk factors using multiple data sources.

Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative (SM2015)

IHME works closely with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to collect data and conduct analysis to evaluate the impact of the Salud Mesoamérica 2015 Initiative. This results-based financing mechanism focuses on reducing inequalities in maternal and child health across Mesoamerica.

University of Washington Center for Demography and Economics of Aging

The University of Washington Center for Demography and Aging at IHME joins 14 other National Institute on Aging (NIA) Demography Centers at leading universities and policy organizations around the United States. The NIA established the Demography Centers to foster research in demography, economics, and epidemiology of aging and to promote the use of important datasets in the field.

Verbal Autopsy (VA)

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. Verbal autopsies consist of a trained interviewer using a questionnaire to collect information about the signs, symptoms, and demographic characteristics of a recently deceased person from an individual familiar with the deceased.

Completed Projects

Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC)

IHME, working in close collaboration with research organizations in four countries, has developed methods to measure mortality, causes of death, and incidence of major illnesses where data are incomplete.

Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC) Mexico Study

The goal of the PHMRC Mexico Study was to offer better instruments and methods to countries for measuring population health where cause of death coding and information on disease prevalence is incomplete or inadequate. As part of the study, IHME pioneered new ways to collect cause of death information through verbal autopsies.

Quantitative analysis of feasibility of achieving zero preventable child deaths

In support of USAID’s strategic plan in reducing child mortality with a view to achieving zero preventable child deaths, IHME conducted quantitative analyses.