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2011

March 25, 2011
IHME Professor, Ali Mokdad, receives 2011 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award (Announcement)
Announcement

Ali Mokdad, PhD, Professor of Global Health at IHME, was awarded the 2011 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR). 

March 14, 2011
CDC makes reproductive health surveys freely available through IHME’s new Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
News Release

A wealth of maternal and child health data is being made immediately and freely accessible through a new collaboration between the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Division of Reproductive Health.

March 7, 2011
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to launch new Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) at upcoming global health conference (Media Advisory)
News Release

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington has created a user-friendly, searchable data catalog for global health, public health, and demographic data. The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) offers a robust search engine and intuitive user interface to make finding data easy.

March 1, 2011
Most diabetics in the US and six other countries ineffectively treated for diabetes and related cardiovascular risk factors
News Release

Millions of people worldwide may be at risk of early death from diabetes and related cardiovascular illnesses because of poor diagnosis and ineffective treatment, a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington shows.

February 1, 2011
Global Health Metrics & Evaluation conference (Media Advisory)
Announcement

Join researchers, policymakers, and global health leaders from around the world to share groundbreaking advances in health measurement and tackle contentious debates at the first conference of its kind, “Global Health Metrics & Evaluation: Controversies, Innovation, Accountability.”

2010

November 30, 2010
Despite economic slump, donors give generously to global health, though at a slower rate
News Release

The worst global economic crisis in decades has not stopped public and private donors from giving record amounts of money to health assistance for developing countries, according to a new report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

August 17, 2010
African countries rapidly distribute bed nets to fight malaria
News Release

In countries susceptible to malaria the number of households that own an insecticide-treated bed net – the chief defense against mosquitos – has grown 16 times over the past decade, according to new research.

June 4, 2010
Cash payments draw mothers to hospitals and reduce newborn deaths
News Release

An innovative program in India that pays women to give birth in a health facility appears to be saving newborns’ lives and lowering the number of stillbirths, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI).

May 24, 2010
Unexpected decline in newborn mortality drives child deaths below 8 million
News Release

Worldwide mortality in children younger than 5 years has dropped from 11.9 million deaths in 1990 to 7.7 million deaths in 2010, a rate of decline that is faster than expected, according to new research from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

April 29, 2010
Adult mortality trends reveal massive rise in global inequalities
News Release

Women’s health is improving faster than men’s, and high-income countries such as the US trail countries that spend less on health care, including Costa Rica, Tunisia, and Albania.

April 12, 2010
Maternal deaths fall worldwide from a half-million annually to less than 350,000
News Release

The number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes has dropped by more than 35% in the past 30 years – from more than a half-million deaths annually in 1980 to about 343,000 in 2008, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and collaborators at the University of Queensland.

April 9, 2010
Developing countries worldwide devote more funding to health, except many in sub-Saharan Africa
News Release

The commitment to health by country governments in the developing world has grown dramatically over the last two decades, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School. Overall domestic government spending on health doubled in low-income countries over 12 years to reach $18 billion in 2006, the study shows.

January 6, 2010
Without key elements, reform won’t stop US slide in health outcomes
News Release

Health reform in the US could fall far short of its promise if critical steps aren’t taken to make improvements that are measureable, impactful, and local, say the authors of a groundbreaking study that ranked the US health care system 37th in the world.

2009

October 20, 2009
IHME/Harvard study wins competition for best open-access paper
Announcement

A study by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Harvard University has been named the best open-access medical paper of the past five years by the journal PLoS Medicine.

July 6, 2009
Hearing loss rate drops, then stalls nationwide
News Release

Americans are hearing better today than they were 30 years ago, but progress on reducing hearing loss has slowed, according to a new study.

June 18, 2009
Global health funding soars, boosted by unprecedented private giving
News Release

Well-heeled donors, private corporations and average citizens sending money to their favorite charities are changing the landscape of global health funding, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

June 18, 2009
Global health funding soars, boosted by unprecedented private giving
News Release

Well-heeled donors, private corporations and average citizens sending money to their favorite charities are changing the landscape of global health funding, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

April 9, 2009
Mexican health care reform relieves financial burden on millions of poor
News Release

Mexico’s recent health reforms appear to have considerably reduced catastrophic and out-of-pocket health spending on both inpatient and outpatient medical procedures, especially among the poor, according to a new study published in The Lancet by a team of researchers—including two scientists from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Known as Seguro Popular, the program reduced the proportion of poorer households that suffered from catastrophic health expenditures from 9.9 to 6.9 percent—a significant reduction that translates into major savings for thousands of Mexican families.

March 4, 2009
Inconsistent survey methods distort true picture of out-of-pocket health spending around the globe
News Release

For many families in the developing world out-of-pocket health spending is a huge financial burden, but measuring the extent of that burden is being hampered by inconsistent survey methods, according to a new study recently published in the WHO Bulletin by lead author Chunling Lu of Harvard Medical School and senior author Dr. Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at University of Washington.

2008

December 12, 2008
Global childhood immunization coverage growing at only half the officially reported rate, IHME study
News Release

A new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington reveals troubling gaps between the number of children reported by countries to be immunized and numbers based on independent surveys in countries receiving aid money from the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisations (GAVI) Immunisations Services Support (ISS) program.

April 21, 2008
Life expectancy worsening or stagnating for large segment of the US population
News Release

One of the major aims of the US health system is improving the health of all people, particularly those segments of the population at greater risk of health disparities. In fact, overall life expectancy in the US increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000.

April 9, 2008
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and The Lancet to co-host international research conference in Seattle
Announcement

Open house tour of Institute set for Wednesday, April 9, followed by two-day research conference to be held Thursday and Friday, April 10- 11, 2008.

2007

June 4, 2007
University of Washington and Gates Foundation to announce new Institute to evaluate international health programs
Announcement

Center will be supported by new Gates Foundation grant and led by world-renowned health expert

June 1, 2007
University of Washington Launches New Institute to Evaluate International Health Programs
News Release

The University of Washington (UW) announced today the creation of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a new research center that will conduct independent, rigorous evaluations of health programs worldwide.

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