IHME in the news

Read what major media outlets are saying about our work.
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Una ley para reparar los daños

Un estudio del 2018 elaborado por The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimó que en México existen más de 49 mil fallecimientos anuales atribuibles a la contaminación ambiental.

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Cardiovascular disease remains leading cause of death globally: Study

The new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) special report published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology provides an update of health estimates for the global, regional and national burden and trends of CVD from 1990-2022.

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These 117 Spots Need Urgent Action To Reduce Accidents

As per Global Burden of Disease 2016, road injuries were the eighth leading cause of death in India that year, rising by 22.5% over the situation in 2015, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

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Patients with chronic joint & muscle disorders to increase by 115 % by 2050

The projected figure of musculoskeletal disorder cases is an increase of about 115 per cent from that of 2020, and most regions were projected to have at least a 50 per cent increase in cases between 2020 and 2050, the international study by The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, US, found.

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La demografía y la innovación: claves para el futuro de las relaciones empresariales entre Japón y España

Unas previsiones, realizadas en el 2022, por el Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation de Estados Unidos, y con todas las cautelas que las previsiones requieren, dibujan un escenario un tanto preocupante, tanto para Japón como para España, al enfrentarse ambos a una reducción drástica de su población para el año 2100, que disminuiría a la mitad en comparación con 2017.

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Tom Frieden: Covid-19 is still around, and so are these misconceptions

Three independent analyses — by the World Health Organization, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the Economist — come to a similar conclusion, that within the first three years globally, more than a million people died in the US and 20 million people died globally in excess of trends.

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Can governments successfully adapt to demographic disparities?

Incentives such as free child care may spur more births, but not enough to reverse the trend, says Christopher J.L. Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle.

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Public health expert, Abubakar, wins Roux Prize 2023

The Roux Prize, awarded by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine, is a beacon of recognition for individuals, who leverage evidence-based health data to improve population health.

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Introducing the Pandemic Recovery Survey

Meta and its partners — the University of Maryland, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) — designed the Pandemic Recovery Survey to equip public health leaders, academic researchers, and NGOs with data and insights to inform pandemic response across the areas of health, education, and economic recovery.

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Mental health: The invisible effects of neglected tropical diseases

The influential Global Burden of Disease (GBD) database, managed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle, assesses the burden of diseases in terms of a metric called disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).