IHME in the news

“COVID is not going to disappear. It's going to stay with us for a long time. And that's what we have seen with similar viruses in the past,” Ali Mokdad, chief strategy officer for population health at the University of Washington, told BuzzFeed News. “This virus is going to keep mutating and could possibly produce an escape variant that could be more severe than what we’re seeing right now."

"Segundo nossa análise, 44,41% das mortes por câncer no mundo podem ser atribuídas a um fator de risco determinado," considera o estudo, publicado na revista Lancet como parte do projeto mundial Global Burden of Disease.

Researchers at the University of Washington’s school of medicine have become the first to work out how risk factors contribute to cancer deaths globally. “This study illustrates that the burden of cancer remains an important public health challenge that is growing in magnitude around the world,” said Dr Christopher Murray, the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s school of medicine and a co-senior author of the study.

The study by the State of Global Air Initiative, a collaboration between Boston-based Health Effects Institute (HEI) and Seattle-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s (IHME) Global Burden of Disease project, is the largest analysis of urban air pollution to date – examining data spanning the years 2010-2019 for 7,239 cities, home to some 2.8 billion people.  It is also the first global analysis to compare trends in cities over time. 

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, based at the University of Washington, estimates that more than 80% of Americans have contracted COVID-19 at least once.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated that in 2019, lead exposure accounted for 900,000 deaths and 21.7 million years of healthy life lost worldwide due to long-term effects on health. The highest burden was in low- and middle-income countries.

According to the Global Burden of Disease, nearly a quarter (24.8 per cent) of all deaths in India is due to CVDs.

The average life expectancy is just 64.5 years in Oglala Lakota County, which includes much of the Pine Ridge Reservation, according to a 2019 estimate from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

Health modeller Sarah Wulf Hanson at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle used Al-Aly’s data to estimate how many heart attacks and strokes COVID-19 has been associated with.

An ambitious new study has prompted a flurry of sensational headlines suggesting that people under 40 should avoid alcohol entirely, while people over 40 may benefit from modest alcohol consumption.  The study was conducted by dozens of researchers through the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Their work was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and published in July in the medical journal the Lancet.

Health modeller Sarah Wulf Hanson at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle used Al-Aly’s data to estimate how many heart attacks and strokes COVID-19 has been associated with.

In the United States alone, there could be up to a million infections a day this winter, Chris Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent modeling group at the University of Washington that has been tracking the pandemic, told Reuters.

In early July, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research center at the University of Washington, released a model suggesting that actual Covid-19 cases are seven times higher than reported cases.

With us to explain what's going on is Dr. Ali Mokdad. He's a professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation suggests that as of earlier this month, 82 percent of Americans have been infected with the coronavirus at least once.