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 of decisions made by the GBD Scientific Council can be downloaded here.
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
Indian Council of Medical Research
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