The world has made tremendous progress in global health during the past 25 years, reducing the impact of some major…
For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Chris Murray, director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and…
By Robert Fortner, special to Humanosphere It seems like a no-brainer: Distribute insecticide-treated nets to poor countries most at risk…
A massive cause-of-death study finds that we are living about six years longer than we did in 1990, that child…
Pneumonia may be the leading killer of children, but that doesn’t mean it is a priority for global health spending.…
Two studies published today in The Lancet, both of them led by researchers at the University of Washington, report a…
More than 500 public health experts, policy makers and academics from 50 different countries have gathered in Seattle this week to dig deeper into what one of the leaders in the field characterized as having done for global health what the Human Genome Science project has done for biomedical science and medicine. The Global Burden of Disease study – the new Global Burden of Disease Study – a massive worldwide assessment of what’s killing, injuring and disabling people around the planet. The GBD was created by some 500 researchers in 187 countries looking through hundreds of millions of reports on nearly 300 causes of death and disability.
A new study of health trends in China finds, perhaps unsurprisingly, that rapid economic development over the past few decades has been accompanied by a decline in ‘diseases of poverty’ like malaria and child malnutrition but a rise in the diseases of the rich world like heart disease and obesity.One surprising – and not completely understood or explained – finding out of the study is that China appears to be the undisputed world leader for certain cancers: Liver, stomach and esophageal.
It’s a new dawn for global health data borne of necessity, mind-numbing numbers, Netflix and a desire to avoid insanity. Peter Speyer, head of data development at Seattle’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, explained why he and his colleagues are transforming a massive collection of health data known as the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) into a stunning collection of powerful online and interactive visual tools.
Some of the world’s leading global health number-crunchers, at the Seattle-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, wanted to know…