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Partnership in Brazil
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.
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.
Insights blog
Find expert insights, commentaries, and researcher explanations of their work.
Podcasts
Dive into the latest trending topics in global health with IHME's Global Health Insights podcasts.
A stillbirth every 10 seconds
A new study estimates global stillbirths down to 20 weeks' gestation.
United States (US) health
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.
Foodborne trematodiases
Schistosomiasis
Well-being in the US
A new analysis reveals stark disparities within the United States and highlights the urgency of tackling deeply rooted structural inequalities through social programs.
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.
Disparities in wellbeing in the USA by race and ethnicity, age, sex, and location, 2008–21: an analysis using the Human Development Index
Years of education, household consumption, and expected lifespan—and thus the Human Development Index—varied considerably among adults in the USA during the 2008–21 period.
WHO Rehabilitation Need Estimator
Analyze estimates of the world’s need for rehabilitation services from 1990 to 2021.
Human African trypanosomiasis
Malaria
Data transparency
IHME estimates are freely available for non-commercial use to the world’s researchers and policymakers according to GATHER best practices.
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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.
Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks’ gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021
In 2021, the global stillbirth rate was 23 per 1000 births at 20 weeks’ gestation or longer, compared to 16 per 1000 births at 28 weeks’ gestation or longer.
Project Officer, Neglected Tropical Diseases
IHME has an exciting opportunity for a Project Officer to support the estimation of malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs), and anemia and hemoglobinopathies within the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study.