Presentations
IHME faculty members, research scientists, and fellows are frequent presenters at academic gatherings, scientific conferences, and policy meetings around the world, where they showcase the Institute’s research into health and mortality trends, newly developed methods and tools, and more. A collection of our research presentations is available below.
This presentation analyzes current trends in public and private financing of health programs worldwide and how these trends may affect progress to reach the Millennium Development Goal targets as the 2015 deadline draws near.
Peter Speyer's presentation provided an overview of the Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx), IHME's global health data catalog that connects the community of data users and producers.
The worst global economic crisis in decades did not stop public and private donors from giving record amounts of money to health assistance for developing countries in 2010.
Dr. Lozano presented information about methods to improve maternal mortality estimates (in Spanish).
Dr. Gakidou discussed how IHME's model for maternal mortality was validated, the uncertainty of the model, and how it compares to the new WHO model (in Spanish).
Dr. Gakidou presented details about IHME's method for estimating maternal mortality, including outlier detection and space-time regression modeling (in Spanish).
Dr. Lozano presented details about IHME's method for estimating maternal mortality, including choosing a dependent variable and forming the model and covariates (in Spanish).
Dr. Gakidou presented information about the global mortality landscape, including estimations of maternal mortality (in Spanish).
This presentation provides an introduction to IHME's vision and mission, principles, program areas, research teams, and governance (in Spanish).
Dr. Murray presented the Institute's latest research on trends in global health financing, which shows a continued rise in development assistance for health.