IHME in the news

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.

Noncommunicable diseases cause the majority of deaths in India, but public health responses fall short.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[The risk factors] are among the main determinants of the loss of years of healthy life among Portuguese people.

According to new GBD 2021 data, life expectancy is expected to increase by almost five years around the world by 2050.

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.

According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, countries where life expectancy is currently lower are expected to see the largest increase.

IHME Director Christopher Murray recounts the study's role in shaping global policy and how collaborators overcame COVID.

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.

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.

Why is it that a disease as common as asthma, which affected approximately 262 million people globally in 2019, is so misunderstood?

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.