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Giving to IHME

Support IHME in our mission to generate cutting-edge scientific evidence, helping all people live long lives in full health.

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Our focus areas

Global Burden of Disease (GBD) and forecasting

Quantifying the most comprehensive and comparable data on health outcomes and drivers across the world by age, sex, location, and year and forecasting the impact into the future in order to inform donors, policymakers, and health system decision-makers how to focus efforts to improve health.

Building the field of health metrics

Training the next generation of scholars to develop and apply innovative scientific methods to measure and analyze health data in order to inform policy, improve health care outcomes, and guide public health initiatives.

Apply expertise of metrics to education

Creating a comparable and comprehensive framework to assess education drivers, outcomes, and disparities.

Value and health systems

Analyzing the capacity of and emerging demands on health systems amid epidemiological transitions, assessing disease expenditures and intervention impacts, and evaluating the impact of investments in policies and interventions.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and global health

Exploring avenues to expand our scientific knowledge and capabilities by applying large language models to test innovations, maximize the use of our resources, make sense of more and more data, and to arrive at findings more efficiently and on a larger scale.

Mapping future health risks

Tracking health threats and opportunities to implement effective policies and interventions to mitigate their impact by developing an understanding of real-time population movements and their relation to critical resources and social conditions, such as water scarcity or the presence of refugee camps.

Gender and equity

Illuminating disparities in both data and outcomes in order to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of health outcomes and drivers and to identify avenues to achieve more equitable outcomes.

Climate change

Quantifying the impact of climate change on health outcomes, tracking trends, and evaluating interventions to understand health risks associated with changing environmental conditions.

Join us to make the world happier, healthier, and more equitable.

Our global team of faculty and researchers are some of the most highly-cited, influential professionals in their fields.

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More ways to give

By phone

+1 (206) 551-3461

By mail

Please make your check payable to the University of Washington Foundation and indicate you wish to support the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. You can mail your check to the following address:

Hans Rosling Center for Population Health
Attn: IHME Advancement
3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98195
UW Campus Box #351615

Contact us

IHME Giving

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (206) 551-3461

Annual gifts

Shannon Buyce, Program Specialist, Development
Email: [email protected]

Major gifts

Diane Gu, Ph.D., Chief Philanthropy Officer
Dana Zeidan, Assistant Director, Development
Email: [email protected] 

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