Dr Chris Murray lecture: "New insights from the Global Burden of Disease study"

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Dr. Chris Murray

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New insights from the Global Burden of Disease 2013 study

by Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington

Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 11 am EST

Masur Auditorium, NIH Clinical Center

NIH Campus, Bethesda, Maryland

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About the lecture

Dr. Chris Murray leads the Global Burden of Disease research project, the largest and most comprehensive effort to date to measure and visualize health trends worldwide. During his talk, Murray will discuss the latest findings from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors Study, focusing on four papers recently published in The Lancet. Key points are related to: child and adult mortality; causes of death; communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional disorders; noncommunicable diseases (NCDs); and injuries and risk factors.

GBD 2013 expands the methodology, datasets and tools used in the prior update, GBD 2010, which Murray addressed during an NIH visit in 2013.

A physician and economist, Murray is a professor of global health and director of theInstitute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. He is a founder of the Global Burden of Disease, which he describes as a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries and risk factors by age, sex, geography and over time. GDB is a collaboration that involves more than 1,000 researchers in over 100 countries assembling the world’s data. The IHME aims to provide the most accurate and comprehensive population health information to create a strong foundation for strategic decision making. In addition to collecting data, IHME develops methods to understand it, and trains the next generation of data scientists.

Related Publications

Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
The Lancet, January 10, 2015 (online December 17, 2014)
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.
The Lancet, August 22, 2015 (online June 7, 2015)
Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 306 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 188 countries, 1990-2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition
The Lancet, (online August 26, 2015)
Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
The Lancet, (online September 10, 2015)

Updated October 8, 2015

Funding Opportunities

NIH funding opportunities for which foreign organizations, foreign components of U.S. organizations and/or other foreign components may apply.

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The goal of this challenge is to create an app to be used by addiction researchers in future studies which will help to improve the scientific understanding of drug use and addiction. Non-U.S. citizens and non-permanent residents can participate as a member of a team.
Deadline for submissions: April 29, 2016
NHLBI Progenitor Cell Translational Consortium (U01) (RFA-HL-16-021) and Coordinating Center (U24) (RFA-HL-16-022)
Application Receipt Date(s): February 08, 2016

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Application deadline: November 30, 2015

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