1/17 Global Burden of Disease study discussion with co-author Dr. Chris Murray Live Videocast
Please join us for a presentation of The Global Burden of Disease 2010 study just published in The Lancet.
Thursday, Jan. 17 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
The event will be videocast live and archived: http://videocast.nih.gov
“The Global Burden of Disease 2010 study: What does it mean for the NIH and global health research?”
Welcome and introduction: Dr. Francis S. Collins, NIH Director
Presentation: Dr. Chris Murray & Colleagues
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation University of Washington Co-author, The Global Burden of Disease 2010 study
What diseases cause the greatest numbers of deaths and disabilities? They might not be what you’d expect. Hear the results of The Global Burden of Disease 2010 study from the senior author and his team. Come armed with the questions most pertinent to your research area so you can join in the discussion.
The recent GBD 2010 study is the largest single report ever published by The Lancet. The project is a systematic, scientific effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of deaths and disability due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography with a look at these trends over time. The GBD construct of the burden of disease is health loss, not income or productivity loss. For decision makers, health-sector leaders, researchers, and informed citizens, this approach provides an opportunity to see the big picture, to compare diseases, injuries, and risk factors, and to grasp the most important contributors to health loss.
Read the December 14th issue of The Lancet on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010: http://www.thelancet.com/themed/global-burden-of-disease
Check out the interactive data visualizations: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/visualizations/regional
About the lead speaker:
Christopher J.L. Murray, M.D., D.Phil., is a Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington and Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). A physician and health economist, his work has led to the development of a range of new methods and empirical studies to strengthen the basis for population health measurement, assess the performance of public health and medical care systems, and estimate the cost effectiveness of health technologies. IHME is focused on the challenges of measurement of health outcomes, health services, financial and human resources, and evaluation of policies, programs and systems, and decision analytics.
Dr. Murray’s early work focused on tuberculosis control and the development with Dr. Alan Lopez of the Global Burden of Disease methods and applications. In this work, they developed a new metric to compare death and disability from various diseases and the contribution of risk factors to the overall burden of disease in developing and developed countries. This pioneering effort has been hailed as a major landmark in public health and an important foundation for policy formulation and priority setting. Dr. Murray worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1998 to 2003 where he led the Evidence and Information for Policy cluster. From 2003 until 2007, Dr. Murray served as director of the Harvard University Initiative for Global Health and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, as was the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Murray has authored or edited 14 books, many book chapters, and more than 130 journal articles in internationally peer-reviewed publications. He holds Bachelor of Arts and Science degrees from Harvard University, a D.Phil. in International Health Economics from Oxford University, and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School.
