IHME in the news
Read what major media outlets are saying about our work.Inside the Global Burden of Disease study
IHME Director Christopher Murray recounts the study's role in shaping global policy and how collaborators overcame COVID.
Asbestos is finally banned in the US. Here’s why it took so long
The University of Washington–based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that asbestos caused more than 40,764 worker deaths in 2019 alone; this figure does not include deaths outside industrial settings, such as those of family members exposed to asbestos brought home on a worker’s clothes or shoes.
Suddenly there aren’t enough babies. The whole world is alarmed.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington now thinks [the global population] will peak around 9.5 billion in 2061 then start declining.
Women live more years in ill-health than men, finds gender health gap study
The study’s senior author, Dr Luisa Sorio Flor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, said: “This report clearly shows that over the past 30 years global progress on health has been uneven.
How vaccines are a key tool to tackle Antimicrobial Resistance
Recently, IHME published a first estimate of global mortality associated with bacterial pathogens, attributing 7.7 million deaths to 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019, making bacteria the second leading cause of death.
Protecting Our Health Starts With Our Planet: A Heart Surgeon’s View
A recent Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study estimates that air pollution resulted in 9 million deaths globally, 61.9% of which was due to cardiovascular disease.
The ten trillion dollar disease
To quantify the economic cost of Alzheimer’s disease, we have undertaken a comprehensive analysis, drawing on data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a leading research organization specializing in analyzing the global burden of diseases, as well as from other organizations and prior studies.
Covid cut life expectancy by 1.6 years globally, but the leading causes of death haven’t changed since 1990
Each of the regions studied by the report “showed an overall improvement from 1990 and 2021, obscuring the negative effect in the years of the pandemic,” write the GBD 2021 Causes of Death Collaborators, who comprise hundreds of researchers led by Mohsen Naghavi and Kanyin Liane Ong of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
Kenyans’ life expectancy drops for first time in 20 years
The decline was revealed in the world’s most comprehensive analysis of health indicators, known as the Global Burden of Disease study.
Global fertility rate continues to fall: How governments could prepare
The global fertility rate will decline through 2100, continuing a trend since 1950, according to new projections.
Births crisis: Nearly every country to shrink by 2100, study warns
“The implications are immense. These future trends in fertility rates and live births will completely reconfigure the global economy and the international balance of power and will necessitate reorganising societies,” said Natalia V Bhattacharjee, co-lead author and lead research scientist at the IHME.
Neurological conditions ‘leading cause of disability and ill health worldwide’
“We hope that our findings can help policymakers more comprehensively understand the impact of neurological conditions on both adults and children to inform more targeted interventions in individual countries, as well as guide ongoing awareness and advocacy efforts around the world.”
A longer life begins in the classroom
A new study measures how much extra life comes from being educated.
A nivel mundial, entre 2019 y 2021 el covid-19 redujo en 1.6 años la esperanza de vida
Entre los otros hallazgos clave de GBD, la mortalidad infantil continuó disminuyendo en medio de la pandemia de covid-19, con medio millón menos de muertes entre niños menores de 5 años en 2021 en comparación con 2019.
Covid lowered global life expectancy more than previously thought, new study suggests
“For adults worldwide, the Covid-19 pandemic has had a more profound impact than any event seen in half a century, including conflicts and natural disasters,” study author Austin Schumacher said in a statement.