IHME in the news

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.

India should protect its people not just from cancer, but also from the financial strain of treatment.

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.

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.

Bacterial illnesses that are resistant to available antibiotic medicines will cause more than 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years and indirectly contribute to an additional 169 million deaths, according to a forecast published [from IHME and other partners] on Monday.

The new study reveals that when it comes to the prevalence of AMR and its effects, “we expect it to get worse,” said lead author Dr. Chris Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

An estimated 8.1 million people globally died in 2021 from the health impacts of breathing dirty air, according to a 2024 report by the Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

“The poorest farmers are the hardest hit, having to cope with more droughts, pests, and diseases, which in turn exacerbate food shortages and push up food prices. We’ve been working with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to better understand the climate-induced hunger crisis.” [Bill Gates on Nigeria’s food insecurity.]

These estimates come from the latest Global Burden of Disease study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

The regional mortality estimates are based on an analysis of 2021 Global Burden of Disease data, the latest available from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

From 2004 to 2021 (the most recent year for which IHME data are available), more Europeans were killed by firearms than were American kids.

In May, it was reported that global life expectancy is forecast to increase by 4.9 years in males and 4.2 years in females between 2022 and 2050, according to the latest findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2021.

Published once every two years, the [2022 Environmental Performance Index] report used data from the Global Burden of Disease Study, published by the Seattle-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which compiled data from 204 countries on household water sources and sanitation facilities from 1990 to 2021.

According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, in 2021 alone, approximately 442,000 deaths were attributable to exposure to high temperatures, with 45,000 deaths among children and 31,000 of those occurring among children under age 5.

This might explain why fertility rates have been declining in most developed countries [links to IHME’s recent publication on global fertility rates]— not just in the United States — despite differences in their economic systems and social welfare policies.