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Global Health Insights

Dive into the latest trending topics in global health.

Think Global Health

An initiative of the  Council on Foreign Relations in collaboration with IHME. 

Commentary

The last mile of nutrition

Introducing a new way to measure the health impacts of community-based food programs and farmers markets.

Commentary

Africa's health financing gap

Donor health funding is declining in sub-Saharan Africa, and domestic spending is not rising to cover the gaps.

Collaborator Spotlight

Get an inside look at the people behind the research in the Global Burden of Disease.

Collaborator Spotlight

Dr. Samar Al-Hajj: Collaborating in Lebanon

Dr. Samar al-Hajj, founder of the Middle East and North Africa Program for Advanced Injury Research, shares her experience as a GBD Collaborator.

Collaborator Spotlight

Advancing public health through data – A partnership spotlight on EPHI’s National Data Management and Analytics Center for Health (NDMC)

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute’s (EPHI) National Data Management and Analytics Center for Health (NDMC), in collaboration with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), has embarked on a transformative journey to revolutionize health data management and utilization for better health outcomes in Ethiopia and beyond.

Acting on Data

Learn how our data is being used for better health outcomes.

Commentaries

Read op-eds and commentaries written by IHME’s global health experts, and listen to podcasts featuring them.

Commentary

Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

In GBD 2021, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, through myriad mechanisms, is a central theme, but GBD reminds us that other macro trends have continued even as the world has gone through a major health shock.

Podcast

The Lancet Neurology in conversation with Jaimie Steinmetz, Theo Vos, Katrin Seeher and Tarun Dua on the global burden of disorders affecting the nervous system

Jaimie Steinmetz and Theo Vos from the Institute of Health Metrics and Katrin Seeher and Tarun Dua from WHO join Heather Brown and Lauren Southwell to discuss new data on the global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system. The Article is published in the April issue of The Lancet Neurology.