Global Burden of Disease Study

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India's Call for Action on Noncommunicable Diseases

Noncommunicable diseases cause the majority of deaths in India, but public health responses fall short

Inside the Global Burden of Disease Study

IHME Director Christopher Murray recounts the study's role in shaping global policy and how collaborators overcame COVID

Gender

How Gender and Sex Shape Disease

New research exposes why health systems should tailor responses to the needs of men and women starting at a young age

Gender

Global Fertility Rate Continues To Fall: How Governments Could Prepare

The global fertility rate will decline from now through 2100, according to new projections in The Lancet

Aging

Global Life Expectancy Declines for First Time in 30 Years

Overall life expectancy is struggling, according to a highly anticipated update to the Global Burden of Disease study

Governance

Tackling the World’s Most Vexing Diseases Through Data

A call to re-shape the way policymakers make health decisions by getting the most cost-effective priorities straight

Poverty

Diabetes and TB—A Complicating Combo

Though they are entirely different types of diseases TB and diabetes exacerbate each other in surprising—and costly—ways

Aging

Age Ain’t Nothing but a Number—Except When it Comes to Health

In some parts of the world, forty is the new seventy

Poverty

How to Prevent a Million Children’s Deaths

Closing gap on child mortality for UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 in ten years may take baby steps, not giant leaps