Partnership in Brazil
The GBD Brazil Network represents a collaboration between researchers from prominent institutions across the country, producing critical public health resources to reach a broad Portuguese-speaking audience.
Photo by Pavlos Euthymiou, Burst.
About the partnership
For more than 10 years, members of the GBD Brazil network have collaborated 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. Originally led by the Ministry of Health, the network has grown to include more than 200 researchers from partnering organizations across sectors, including academia, health care, philanthropy, and more.
This collaboration has led to the development of a number of resources designed to support the wider dissemination of GBD data. These resources include 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. Collaborating institutions represented in the network include:
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Universidade Federal de Goiás
- Universidade Nacional de Brasília
- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
- Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
- Universidade Federal Fluminense
- Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
- Fundação Oswaldo Cruz
- Universidade Federal de São João Del Rei
- Universidade Federal de São Carlos
- Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Vital Strategies
- Hospital Sírio-Libanês
- Prefeitura de Belo Horizonte
- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
- Ministério da Saúde do Brasil
Featured events
Brazil Network GBD Collaborators at the 12th Congress of Epidemiology in Rio de Janeiro, November 2024.
IHME director Chris Murray and UFMG professor Deborah Malta present findings from GBD 2015.
Representatives from IHME and Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística promote the GBD 2018 launch in Rio de Janeiro.
IHME Professor Mohsen Naghavi presents at the 12th Congress of Epidemiology in Rio de Janeiro, November 2024.
Featured projects
Introduction to GBD Course in Portuguese
The course was designed for users seeking an introduction to the methods and tools of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, translated into Portuguese.
GBD Compare in Portuguese
We provide a Portuguese translation of our most popular data visualization, which compares health trends across over 200 countries and subnational locations.
GBD Brazil website
Created by the GBD Brazil Network, this Portuguese-language website provides a hub for data and findings about Brazilian population health, including state-level data.
Brazil country profile
Country profiles provide an overview of findings from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD), including forecasts for population size, life expectancy, causes of death, and more. They are generated using over 80,000 data sources to produce the most scientifically rigorous estimates possible.
