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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.

The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) is the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to measure epidemiological levels and trends worldwide. We continue to build and sustain an even larger and more diverse network of GBD Collaborators from around the world with expertise in demography, specific diseases, injuries, risk factors, and impairments, the epidemiological profile of individual countries, health financing, geospatial analysis, and health systems. We invite you to apply to join the GBD Collaborator Network.

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.

Air pollution affects millions of people worldwide. Both household and outdoor air pollution pose severe threats related to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancers, and other conditions.

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Explore our research and analysis on a wide range of health topics.

Use this guide to understand the data from the latest GBD study, presented in our web-based tools. 

Mental health conditions are among the top 10 leading causes of health loss worldwide, with anxiety and depression ranked as the most common across all age groups and locations.

Learn about the Institute, our DEI initiatives, culture, and what it's like to work here.

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The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides a comprehensive picture of mortality and disability across countries, time, age, and sex. It quantifies health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved and disparities eliminated.

IHME offers a variety of education and training opportunities for policymakers and scholars engaged in population health and health metrics research, advocacy, and policy.

Dr. Damian Santomauro shares the latest findings on the global burden of autism.

An estimated 61.8 million individuals (one in every 127 people) were on the autism spectrum globally in 2021.

Dr. Hmwe Kyu shares findings from the Global Burden of Disease showing that diarrheal diseases are causing fewer deaths than in 1990, but remain a significant burden on children under 5 and elderly populations.

Diarrhoeal diseases claim more than 1 million lives annually and are a leading cause of death in children younger than 5 years.

New global study reports a 60% drop in global mortality from diarrheal diseases, but children and the elderly still have the highest death rates, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

The GBD Brazil Network represents a collaboration between researchers from prominent institutions across the country, producing critical public health resources to reach a broad Portuguese-speaking audience.

Dr. Christopher Murray shares findings from a series of papers published in The Lancet on US health.

IHME's Dr. Michael Arndt shares the latest findings on global nutrition targets set by the World Health Assembly in 2012.