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A new study from IHME and its collaborators worldwide looks at how a child’s chance of dying before age 5 depends on where they live. When it comes to saving children’s lives, we have a lot of evidence about what works. Building on that strong foundation, these district-level maps are a helpful addition to policymakers’ toolkit, as they highlight places that have been left behind and require more attention.

Dr. Richard Horton, the “activist editor” of the international medical journal The Lancet, is receiving the Roux Prize, given annually to individuals on the front lines of global health innovation in data science.

In 2016, a total of $4.3 billion was spent globally on malaria, which includes funding from all sources: donor, government, out-of-pocket, and prepaid private sources. Still, spending fell short of the annual funding target set by WHO to control or eliminate malaria by 2020.

IHME needs help in assembling a comprehensive database of the world’s geolocated health data.

“Lifetime stroke risk” is the probability of a person developing a stroke at some point during their remaining lifespan, after accounting for other risks of death.

Based on past trends, most countries’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) index scores are projected to rise between 2017 and 2030. By 2030, the under-5 mortality, neonatal mortality, maternal mortality ratio, and malaria indicators had the most countries likely to attain their targets.

“Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990– 2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” is based on more data than ever before. Nineteen new causes were added for a total of 359 causes. The study also includes a more detailed analysis of healthy life expectancy.

“Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” is based on more data than ever before and includes 622 new data sources, for a total of 8,259 data sources. The 2017 study produced and used a new set of population estimates, which has led to substantial changes in mortality estimates in many countries. The analysis has been extended in time by two decades to start in 1950, and the statistical methods have been improved.

This update to the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors study (GBD) includes an important new feature: for the first time, population and fertility estimates were produced by the GBD collaborators. Those estimates confirm and extend our understanding of key population trends, including those related to health.

In “Measuring human capital: a systematic analysis of 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016” IHME provides the first internationally comparable index of human capital. Building on past efforts, the study offers a measure of expected human capital that incorporates educational attainment, education quality or learning, functional health status, and survival for 195 countries, from 1990 to 2016.

Non-communicable diseases account for 67% of all deaths yet only receive 2% of the funding to improve health in low- and middle-income countries.

The Local Burden of Disease project aims to produce estimates and maps of health outcomes and related measures that cover entire continents at a local resolution of 5-by-5-kilometer areas.