Health Statistics and Informatics, World Health Organization

Health Statistics and Informatics, a part of the World Health Organization, works to enhance the availability, quality, and use of health data to help countries strengthen their health information systems.

Members of Health Statistics and Informatics at the World Health Organization (WHO)  serve on the core team of the Global Burden of Disease Study, led by IHME. The new Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) 2010 Study began in spring 2007 and is the first major effort since the GBD 1990 Study to carry out a complete systematic assessment of the data on all diseases and injuries.

The result will be comprehensive and comparable estimates of the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for the years 1990, 2005, and 2010. The GBD Study will produce estimates for approximately 220 conditions and more than 40 risk factors.

WHO members organized condition-specific expert groups to carry out systematic reviews, provided instrumental disease modeling for the study, and helped to guide the overall intellectual direction of the study. They have hosted a set of consultative meetings that provided valuable feedback on the estimates.

Individual collaborators:

• Ties Boerma
• Colin Mathers