The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Scientific Council oversees and makes key scientific decisions about the GBD process and methods. The Council is composed of leading experts in fields related to GBD. It is not a substitute for peer review of publications or periodic reviews from independent groups. 

A summary is available of the Council's decisions for each round of GBD from 2013 to the present.

Read the decision summary

For any questions, please contact the GBD Secretariat at [email protected].

GBD Scientific Council members

Council Chair

Christopher Murray

Council Secretary

Kara Estep
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Members

Cristiana Abbafati
Sapienza University of Rome

Emilie Agardh
Karolinska Institutet

Peter Allebeck
Karolinska Institutet

Mirza Balaj
Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research (CHAIN)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Zulfiqar Bhutta
Aga Khan University Medical Center

Lalit Dandona
Public Health Foundation of India

Sebastian Haller
Robert Koch Institute

Simon Hay
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Guoqing Hu
Central South University in Changsha

Ardeshir Khosravi
Ministry of Health and Medical Education
Tehran University of Medical Sciences

Ann Kristin Knudsen
Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Hmwe Kyu
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Stephen Lim
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Rafael Lozano
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Stefan Ma
Singapore Ministry of Health

Deborah Carvalho Malta
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

George Mensah
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Lorenzo Monasta
IRCCS Burlo Garofolo Institute for Maternal and Child Health

Mohsen Naghavi
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

John Newton
University of Exeter

Shuhei Nomura
Keio University
University of Tokyo

Liane Ong
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Heather Orpana
Public Health Agency of Canada

Tajudeen Raji
Africa CDC

Joshua Salomon
Stanford University

Inbal Salz 
Ministry of Health of New Zealand 

Zainab Samad
Aga Khan University

Benn Sartorius
University of Oxford
University of KwaZulu-Natal
University of Washington

Awoke Misganaw Temesgen
Ethiopian Public Health Institute
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Roman Topor-Madry
Jagiellonian University Medical College; Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System

Stein Emil Vollset
Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Elena Varavikova 
Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of the Ministry of Health of Russia

Theo Vos
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Haidong Wang
World Health Organization

Elizabeth Wangia
Kenya Ministry of Health

Andrea Werdecker
Federal Institute for Population Research

Harvey Whiteford
University of Queensland