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The longstanding partnership between Brazil’s Federal University of Minas Gerais and IHME has produced an abundance of critical public health resources reaching a broad Portuguese-speaking audience.

IHME has an excellent opportunity for a Research Scientist to join the Environmental, Occupational, and Dietary (EOD) Risk Factors team on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) Study.

Fifteen members of the IHME community are honored as Highly Cited Researchers of 2024.

About $4.3 trillion of the $10 trillion spent on health globally is in the US. Despite this huge investment, there are still wide disparities in health and health spending across the country.

We make datasets and our sources freely available so that policymakers have the evidence they need to make informed decisions about how to allocate resources to best improve population health.

Today, AARP, the Alzheimer’s Disease Data Initiative (AD Data Initiative), and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington announced the Dementia Risk Reduction Project, a new collaboration to study how factors – air pollution, alcohol use, depression, diabetes, high body mass index, hearing loss, hypertension, low education, physical inactivity, social isolation, smoking, and traumatic brain injury—vary by state and their correlation to dementia.

Over the past several decades, the overweight and obesity epidemic in the USA has resulted in a significant health and economic burden.