Acting on Data

As National Hispanic Heritage Month begins on September 15, there is an opportunity to recognize and scrutinize the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 has had on the Hispanic and Latino American demographic.

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in disruptions to routine health services around the world like childhood vaccinations.

We describe how we use survey data to estimate COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the United States.

Commemorating the annual World No Tobacco Day and highlighting the significant toll that tobacco takes on populations with the worlds most comprehensive data and research from the IHME Tobacco Metrics Team the Global Burden of Disease collaboative. 

Maps of mask usage globally, and specifically in the United States, since April 20, 2020

One year after we published our first COVID-19 model, we take a look back at progress made, lessons learned, and how the world has changed.

Dr. Mokdad discusses the importance of ensuring vaccine access to any individual irrespective of their citizenship status, creating a national vaccination plan that heavily involves participation at the local level, details on the COVID-19 virus mutations, and more. 

La vacilación ante la vacuna y otros riesgos de comportamiento reducen la probabilidad de inmunidad colectiva.

Maps of vaccine confidence globally and specifically in the United States.

This week, IHME has decided not to release new projections due to significant delays in death reporting during and following the holidays.

20 figures from studies that our researchers and collaborators published in journals in 2020, as well as data visualizations, infographics, GIFs and designs from other IHME-affiliated projects.

Here we summarize two new views that are available for each chart. For a more detailed walk-through, check out this video tutorial.

With many locations at or past their initial peak in daily deaths, on May 4, we released an adaptation of our model of the initial peak in deaths that links that model to our emerging understanding of disease transmission dynamics. This new hybrid approach between our initial statistical model and a more traditional disease transmission model will enable the exploration of changes in transmission intensity if – or as the data increasingly suggest, when – social distancing mandates are eased and/or human mobility patterns rise.

The White House recently referenced a new COVID-19 forecasting model created by Dr. Christopher Murray and researchers in Washington state that predicts the state-by-state impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health systems in the United States. That model is our model.

Why do GBD researchers bother to use new and potentially unfamiliar metrics instead of tried-and-true, older ways of discussing disease, like prevalence and incidence? To illustrate how GBD metrics complement other population health metrics, let’s consider some standard public health metrics, and how GBD-specific metrics build on them.