Think Global Health
Think Global Health launched in 2020 as a joint initiative of the Council on Foreign Relations and IHME. Browse the articles written by IHME authors and published on the Think Global Health website.
Recommendations, analyses, forecasts, interviews, and data visualizations on the site have been circulated widely and many have been featured in or cited by news outlets including the New York Times, BBC, and many others. Think Global Health was nominated for a Webby Award in 2021 and 2022.
Just how do deaths due to COVID-19 stack up?
Since the beginning of 2020, COVID has accounted for nearly 1 in 20 deaths globally. This makes it the fourth-leading cause of death worldwide, second-leading in the US, and number one in Brazil, England, France, and Mexico, among others.
Tackling air pollution starts at home
A critical need for clean household energy in rapidly developing countries.
COVID-19 fueled record-breaking investments in global health
Examining opportunities and challenges related to development spending.
Why it's hard to understand how COVID-19 affected global health system performance
Universal health coverage examined through the lens of tuberculosis.
Family planning: global disparities persist
Contraception access and options need to improve to help empower women, young people.
Eight billion and counting
What to expect this winter
Just one to two servings of vegetables a day improves health
But eating more vegetables is still better.
The cleft palate-malnutrition connection
During food crises, children with cleft lip and cleft palate are the most vulnerable of the vulnerable.
Is it the end of COVID-19 as we know it?
IHME Director Christopher Murray weighs in on the state of the pandemic, the new omicron vaccine, and flu season.
