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2013

Rapid change in China brings significant improvements in health
June 6, 2013
Australia leads on key health measures
May 1, 2013
IHME Director Christopher Murray delivers talk at TEDMED 2013
April 19, 2013
Huge disparities in hypertension seen across US counties
April 5, 2013
New data show countries around the world grappling with changing health challenges
March 4, 2013
New Lancet paper reveals that UK lags behind much of Europe on key measures of health
March 4, 2013
Has the "Golden Age" of global health funding come to an end?
February 6, 2013

2012

Global Burden of Disease: Massive shifts reshape the health landscape worldwide
December 13, 2012
IHME professor named first health measurement winner of prestigious innovation award
August 21, 2012
Americans gaining more weight than they say
August 1, 2012
IHME and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia collaborate on health tracking (Announcement)
May 9, 2012
Girls born in 2009 will live shorter lives than their mothers in hundreds of US counties
April 19, 2012
Paper co-authored by IHME professor wins development award (Announcement)
March 15, 2012
Malaria kills nearly twice as many people than previously thought, but deaths are declining rapidly
February 1, 2012

2011

Global health funding slows as deadline for Millennium Development Goals nears
December 14, 2011
IHME develops fast, affordable ways for countries to better identify causes of death in populations
October 31, 2011
HIV/AIDS prevention initiative averts 100,000 infections in India
October 11, 2011
Countries worldwide are saving mothers’ and children’s lives at a faster pace
September 19, 2011
More women dying from breast and cervical cancer at a younger age in developing countries
September 14, 2011
Owning insecticide-treated bed nets lowers child mortality by 23%
September 6, 2011
IHME faculty contribute articles to The Lancet’s series on health in Japan
September 1, 2011
IHME wins award for innovative mapping tool (Announcement)
July 13, 2011
Life expectancy in most US counties falls behind world’s healthiest nations
June 15, 2011
IHME Professor, Ali Mokdad, receives 2011 Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award (Announcement)
March 25, 2011
CDC makes reproductive health surveys freely available through IHME’s new Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
March 14, 2011
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation to launch new Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) at upcoming global health conference (Media Advisory)
March 7, 2011
Most diabetics in the US and six other countries ineffectively treated for diabetes and related cardiovascular risk factors
March 1, 2011
Global Health Metrics & Evaluation conference (Media Advisory)
February 1, 2011

2010

Despite economic slump, donors give generously to global health, though at a slower rate
November 30, 2010
Rising education levels among women save children's lives worldwide
September 16, 2010
African countries rapidly distribute bed nets to fight malaria
August 17, 2010
Cash payments draw mothers to hospitals and reduce newborn deaths
June 4, 2010
Unexpected decline in newborn mortality drives child deaths below 8 million
May 24, 2010
Adult mortality trends reveal massive rise in global inequalities
April 29, 2010
Maternal deaths fall worldwide from a half-million annually to less than 350,000
April 12, 2010
Developing countries worldwide devote more funding to health, except many in sub-Saharan Africa
April 9, 2010
Without key elements, reform won’t stop US slide in health outcomes
January 6, 2010

2009

IHME Post-Bachelor Fellows creating a new generation of "skeptical optimists"
November 19, 2009
IHME/Harvard study wins competition for best open-access paper
October 20, 2009
Hearing loss rate drops, then stalls nationwide
July 6, 2009
Global health funding soars, boosted by unprecedented private giving
June 18, 2009
Mexican health care reform relieves financial burden on millions of poor
April 9, 2009
Inconsistent survey methods distort true picture of out-of-pocket health spending around the globe
March 4, 2009

2008

Global childhood immunization coverage growing at only half the officially reported rate, IHME study
December 12, 2008
Life expectancy worsening or stagnating for large segment of the US population
April 21, 2008
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and The Lancet to co-host international research conference in Seattle
April 9, 2008

2007

University of Washington and Gates Foundation to announce new Institute to evaluate international health programs
June 4, 2007
University of Washington Launches New Institute to Evaluate International Health Programs
June 1, 2007
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