The Independent Advisory Committee for the Global Burden of Disease will advise the Board of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on Global Burden of Disease, Forecasting, and Geospatial Analysis research areas with the following terms of reference:

  1. Advise on the overall vision and strategic direction of the Global Burden of Disease, Forecasting, and Geospatial Analysis projects
  2. Review the strengths and weaknesses of different methods and results
  3. Identify areas in which, on the basis of available evidence, new data collection and analysis would help to improve particular estimates and make recommendations for how to instigate and support such efforts
  4. Advise the IHME Board about opportunities for strengthening collaboration and shared ownership
  5. Advise on the strengths and weaknesses of other efforts on global health estimates
  6. Act as a conduit for the discussion of criticisms raised about the GBD methods and estimates
  7. Provide guidance on the integration of new components and features into the GBD project
  8. Advise on the wider communication of the GBD outputs and engagement with end users, with a focus on the use of GBD evidence to inform policy and program decision making and implementation
  9. Report annually to the IHME Board

The IAC meets twice annually and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Summaries of all IAC meetings are available on the Independent Advisory Committee Meetings page.

For more information about the Independent Advisory Committee, please contact the GBD IAC Program Manager, Sarah Curran.

Independent Advisory Committee Management and Support

  • Sarah Curran, Program Manager, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
  • Edmond Ng, Senior Statistical Analyst, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

Independent Advisory Committee Observers

  • Enis Barış, Practice Manager, Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, The World Bank, USA

  • Dr. Samira Asma, Assistant Director-General, for Data, Analytics and Delivery, World Health Organisation

Junior Independent Advisory Committee Members

  • Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana and Assistant Professor, Utrecht University

  • Cynthia Chen, Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and Fellow, Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California

  • Faith Nekabari Nfii, Programme Coordinator, Public Health Workforce Development, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Independent Advisory Committee

Peter Piot
IAC Chair; Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
Irene Agyepong
University of Ghana School of Public Health, Ghana
Maria de Fatima Marinho de Souza
Professor, University of Minas Gerais and Senior Advisor, Vital Strategies
Isabel de la Mata
Principal Adviser for Health and Crisis Management, European Commission
Patricia Garcia
Professor Cayetano Heredia University, Lima, Peru
Gary King
Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Director, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, USA
Michael Klag
Dean, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, US
Marie Lynn Miranda
Professor, University of Notre Dame; Director, Children’s Environmental Health Initiative; Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University and Indiana University
Lee Chor Pharn
Principal Strategist, Strategy Group, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore
J.V.R. Prasada Rao
Special Advisor to UNAIDS
Camilla Stoltenberg
Director General of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Trevor Sutton
Deputy Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australia
Lance Waller
Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University