WATCH: “The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Burden of Disease Study” with Chris Murray

2016 Dudley Allen Sargent Lecture

“The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Burden of Disease Study” was presented by Christopher J. L. Murray, MD, DPhil, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington.

Physician and health economist Christopher Murray has dedicated his career to improving worldwide health and health evidence. His work has led to the development of a range of new methods and empirical studies to strengthen health measurement, analyze the performance of public health and medical care systems, and assess the cost effectiveness of health technologies. Murray is a founder of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) approach, a systematic effort to quantify the comparative magnitude of health loss due to diseases, injuries, and risk factors by age, sex, and geography over time.