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IHME home to 15 of Clarivate's highly cited researchers for 2024
Fifteen members of the IHME community are honored as Highly Cited Researchers of 2024.
AARP and leading research organizations announce risk factors of dementia research findings
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.
The Lancet: Without immediate action nearly 260 million people in the USA predicted to have overweight or obesity by 2050
Over the past three decades, there has been a startling increase in the prevalence of obesity across the USA, at least doubling in adult men and women (aged 25 and older) and older female and male adolescents (aged 15-24 years) since 1990, with the number of people living with overweight and obesity reaching over 208 million in 2021.
Q&A: The epidemic of obesity in the US
IHME's Dr. Marie Ng shares key findings and policy recommendations from our latest research on BMI, overweight, and obesity in the United States.
Q&A: Where do people have the highest and lowest levels of well-being in the US?
IHME Director Dr. Chris Murray discusses our latest research using the Human Development Index (HDI) to measure well-being in the United States.
Measuring well-being across the US
Race, gender, and where you live can have a profound impact on your well-being. In a first-of-its kind analysis, new data shows significant disparities in individual well-being as measured by lifespan, education, and income.
A stillbirth every 10 seconds
A new study estimates global stillbirths down to 20 weeks' gestation.
First-of-its-kind analysis of US national data reveals significant disparities in individual well-being as measured by lifespan, education, and income
In the first analysis of its kind, the Human Development Index (HDI) was adapted to examine trends and inequities at the individual rather than the group level from 2008 to 2021.
How ‘miracle’ weight-loss drugs will change the world
Such policy-based behavioral interventions usually have little effect on preventing weight gain or causing weight loss in the real world, at least in the short term. But the GLP-1 drugs could be different, says Theo Vos, an epidemiologist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Q&A: Less than two thirds of countries are on track to prevent stillbirths
Dr. Nick Kassebaum highlights the significant burden of stillbirths and the challenges of gathering accurate data.
Q&A: Risk of pulmonary arterial hypertension increases with age
Dr. Gregory Roth, Director of the Program for Cardiovascular Health Metric at IHME, shares the latest findings on pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) from the Global Burden of Disease study.
India's cancer burden drives generational poverty
India should protect its people not just from cancer, but also from the financial strain of treatment.
New “Prevalence of glaucoma in the US in 2022” study finds higher prevalence of the eye disease than previously estimated
New research study estimates glaucoma and vision-affecting glaucoma prevalence by demographic factors, and by U.S. state and county.
Community Health Workers are key to remote global care
On behalf of the Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC), Dr. Madeleine Ballard, global health leader and CEO of CHIC, is the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s 2024 Roux Prize winner.
Roux Prize 2024 Recipient: Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC) CEO Dr. Madeleine Ballard
On behalf of the Community Health Impact Coalition (CHIC), Dr. Madeleine Ballard, global health leader and CEO of CHIC, is the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s 2024 Roux Prize winner.
Mental health of adolescents
Globally, it is estimated that one in seven (14%) of 10–19-year-olds experience mental health conditions [according to GBD data], yet these remain largely unrecognized and untreated.
One million people who never regularly smoked now vape in England – study
Another study from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors (GBD) Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators, also published in the same journal, looked at speeding up the decline in tobacco smoking globally.
The last mile of nutrition
Introducing a new way to measure the health impacts of community-based food programs and farmers markets.
The Lancet Public Health: Accelerating actions to eliminate tobacco smoking could help increase life expectancy and prevent millions of premature deaths by 2050, modelling study suggests
Stepping up actions to eliminate smoking could increase global life expectancy by around five years by 2050, according to a study from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries and Risk Factors (GBD) Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators published in The Lancet Public Health journal.
Superbugs could jeopardise food security for over two billion people and increase annual health care costs by US$ 159 billion annually by 2050, finds most extensive modelling to date
Data from more than 200 countries forecasts the full toll of drug-resistant pathogens on people, livestock and the economy and estimates a return on investment of 28 to 1 if the problem is addressed now.
Q&A: The rate of common colds and ear infections are declining
Despite declining rates, the number of new episodes has increased due to population growth, with 12.8 billion new episodes of URIs and 390 million new episodes of otitis media in 2021, as estimated by our study.