Partnerships

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and IHME collaborate to enhance the use and policy relevance of health metrics research in Africa, improve data sharing and accessibility, and strengthen capacity to enhance health outcomes. Together, Africa CDC and IHME have implemented a series of regional workshops on GBD and are writing manuscripts and reports on priority diseases, training Africa CDC staff, and hosting evidence translation workshops. 

The Department of Health (DOH) and IHME have collaborated since 2018 to leverage GBD evidence to guide strategic investments, exchange knowledge on GBD through virtual and in-person workshops and trainings, and estimate the burden of disease for the Philippines for 82 provincial administrative units. The aim of this partnership is to generate for the first time a reliable set of burden of disease estimates for every province, and to use those estimates to better understand the distribution of risk factors, guide clinical benefits packages, and inform ongoing health policies. 

The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) and IHME have been in partnership for more than 10 years, working together to drive use of the GBD for policy development, to support research on key topics impacting the health of Brazilians, and to provide learning opportunities for health professionals across the Portuguese-speaking world. UFMG and IHME work to coordinate the Brazil GBD Network, a collaboration of more than 200 researchers across research institutes, universities, and the Ministry of Health. This collaboration has led to the development of a number of resources designed to support the wider dissemination of GBD data through mediums such as the Portuguese-language GBD Brazil website and GBD Compare. UFMG has worked with IHME to develop numerous important publications focusing on key health topics for Brazil including the burden of interpersonal violence against women, road traffic injuries and death, and trends in mortality due to tobacco use.

The Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (GRAM) Project is a partnership between the University of Oxford and IHME to provide rigorous quantitative estimates of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) burden; to increase global, regional, and country-level awareness of AMR; to boost surveillance efforts, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); and to promote the rational use of antimicrobials worldwide.

IHME and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) work together to ensure a mutually comprehensive understanding and review of data and methods for diabetes, and to share knowledge and results from the global estimates produced by both IDF and the Global Burden of Disease study. We jointly engage with content and country experts to strengthen our understanding of new developments within the diabetes research community. 

The Center for Global Health Inequities Research (CHAIN) based at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is a leading center in interdisciplinary research of global health inequalities and health determinants. CHAIN and IHME are exploring the global association between social determinants of health and mortality, with the goal of including low education as the first socioeconomic risk factor in the Global Burden of Disease study.