IHME

What We Do

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

IHME is an independent research center identifying the best strategies to build a healthier world. By measuring health, tracking program performance, finding ways to maximize health system impact, and developing innovative measurement systems, IHME provides a foundation for informed decision-making that ultimately will lead to better health for people worldwide.

Measuring Health

We provide rigorous, comparable, and current scientific measurement of trends in diseases, injuries, risk factors, and death, analyzing data across countries and over time. Decision-makers need to know what is making people sick in order to design prevention programs and target the delivery of drugs, vaccines, and other interventions.

Tracking Performance

IHME tracks and assesses the impact of policies and interventions as well as overall health system performance to understand the progress being made in health. We also analyze health financing by studying development assistance for health, government health spending, private health expenditures, and health service costs.

Maximizing Impact

We provide decision-makers with timely, comparable, and forward-looking information to inform choices about policies and funding. We measure health disparities and identify challenges to delivering health care. We also estimate the cost-effectiveness of health programs and analyze constraints on scaling up interventions.

Innovative Measurement Systems

We develop analytical methods and computer software to improve detailed analysis of health trends. The new approaches allow us to better correct for errors, fill in gaps in the data, and produce local estimates of health indicators. We also create new surveys, survey techniques, and information systems adaptable to many settings.