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Latest Publications:The Lancet - June 10 The Lancet - May 10 Population Health Metrics - May 10 |
Coming Up:"Estimating Age Specific Mortality Rates: An Improved Model Life Table System," a special seminar by IHME post-graduate fellow, Dr. Haidong Wang IHME Opportunities:Education & Training Project Officer Lecturer, Global Health Economics Research Survey:Were you recently contacted regarding an upcoming telephone survey measuring the impact of different health problems? For more information  |
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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research center at the University of Washington rigorously measuring the world’s most pressing health issues and providing scientific evaluations of health system and health program performance in order to guide health policy and accelerate global health progress. Research Areas:Health Outcomes
IHME is generating scientifically sound methods and systematic estimates of health outcomes – including mortality, causes of death, and overall burden of disease, injuries, and risk factors. Health Services
We study how health services contribute to improving health outcomes by measuring the crude coverage of specific health interventions, as well as estimating the effectiveness of those interventions by integrating the concepts of need, utilization, and quality. Resource Inputs
We track, measure, and analyze both sides of health finances. On the funding side, we examine the three components of health spending – development assistance for health, government health expenditure, and private health expenditure. On the spending side, we measure the cost of service delivery platforms, such as hospitals or community health clinics. Decision Analytics
We develop methods and generate better forward-looking and cross-cutting information for policymakers to make decisions about policies and funding. This work ranges from creating a set of common indicators to use consistently in health analyses, to investigating subnational disparities, to estimating the cost-effectiveness of health service delivery platforms and interventions. Evaluations
We conduct impact evaluations of policies, interventions, and programs and assess health system performance to best understand the progress being made in health. Tools and Instruments To catalyze the use of data across different areas requires both new instruments for data collection and archiving and analytic tools to make sense of the data. We develop survey instruments and create analytic tools to harness the value from data in health information systems and locally available sources. Key Projects:The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation is generously supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the State of Washington for its core activities. Additional studies and research are funded through individual research grants.
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