IHME in the news
Read what major media outlets are saying about our work.Air pollution deaths in children under 5 down 53% since 2000: Global report
Researchers have published the State of Global Air (SoGA) 2024 report, which presents data on exposures to and health impacts of common air pollutants, including fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ozone (O3), and, for the first time, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), from 1990-2021.
India's call for action on noncommunicable diseases
Noncommunicable diseases cause the majority of deaths in India, but public health responses fall short.
Air pollution caused 8.1 million deaths in 2021: State of Global Air Report
The Health Effects Institute’s report [in collaboration with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation] reveals that air pollution was responsible for 8.1 million deaths worldwide in 2021.
What's behind the post-COVID surge in communicable diseases?
Canada, Japan, Singapore and Germany — places lauded for their successful efforts to contain COVID-19 — are now seeing unusual levels of excess mortality, said Christopher Murray, Washington-based director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Climate patterns increase air pollution deaths by 14%
The ambitious study looked at air pollution on a global scale, across a 40 year period using NASA satellite data and incidences of premature death linked to air pollution from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in the US.
Stark differences exist in health, disability between males and females
Substantial differences existed in the way the 20 leading causes of disease affected females and males worldwide, a study [IHME-led GBD 2021 research] involving data from 1990 to 2021 found.
Calls to end tax on healthy food
[The risk factors] are among the main determinants of the loss of years of healthy life among Portuguese people.
How long will we live in future?
According to new GBD 2021 data, life expectancy is expected to increase by almost five years around the world by 2050.
Majority of top health risks are within individual control, global study finds
In the absence of a major health innovation, these factors are predicted to remain relevant over the next several decades,” said Emmanuela Gakidou, co-founder of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.
Global life expectancy to increase by nearly five years by 2050 – study
According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, countries where life expectancy is currently lower are expected to see the largest increase.
Inside the Global Burden of Disease study
IHME Director Christopher Murray recounts the study's role in shaping global policy and how collaborators overcame COVID.
Asbestos is finally banned in the US. Here’s why it took so long
The University of Washington–based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that asbestos caused more than 40,764 worker deaths in 2019 alone; this figure does not include deaths outside industrial settings, such as those of family members exposed to asbestos brought home on a worker’s clothes or shoes.
Suddenly there aren’t enough babies. The whole world is alarmed.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington now thinks [the global population] will peak around 9.5 billion in 2061 then start declining.
Severe asthma: A call for global policy action
Why is it that a disease as common as asthma, which affected approximately 262 million people globally in 2019, is so misunderstood?
Women live more years in ill-health than men, finds gender health gap study
The study’s senior author, Dr Luisa Sorio Flor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, said: “This report clearly shows that over the past 30 years global progress on health has been uneven.