Videos

Get the most out of our COVID-19 Projections tool with this short tutorial.

Dr. Chris Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation explains a new focus on forecasting possible relaxation of social distancing.

IHME Editorial Coordinator, Rebecca Sirull, talks about her experience participating in a clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, describes the trajectory of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic based on new data analyses and forecasting.

Preparedness is key when tackling a novel pathogen like 2019-nCoV. Dr. David Pigott, assistant professor and spatial epidemiologist at IHME, discusses the importance of prevention, detection, and treatment in response to an epidemic.

An animation to accompany the study, "Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries."

The Roux Prize is intended for anyone who has applied burden of disease research in innovative ways to improve population health. We are now accepting nominations for 2020.

An animation to accompany the study titled, "Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant, and child deaths between 2000 and 2017."

Dr. Richard Horton, the “activist editor” of the international medical journal The Lancet, has been honored for his accomplishments as one of the world’s most “committed, articulate, and influential advocates for population health.”

Dr. John Nkengasong and Dr. Laura Dwyer-Lindgren discuss a new study on mapping HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

An animation to accompany the study titled, "Mapping HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2017."

An animation to accompany the study titled, "Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016."

Verbal autopsy (VA) is a method of determining individuals’ causes of death and cause-specific mortality fractions in populations without a complete vital registration system. Dr. Abraham Flaxman explains the importance of verbal autopsy and how updated software is improving this method.

An animation to accompany the study titled, "Forecasting life expectancy, years of life lost, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 250 causes of death: reference and alternative scenarios for 2016–40 for 195 countries and territories using data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016."

Dr. Cynthia Maung, a Burmese physician and director of a clinic in Thailand, will be awarded $100,000 for using health data to improve the lives of refugees, migrant workers, and internally displaced people along the Burmese-Thai border.