Projects
In addition to its core research, IHME leads a number of special research projects focusing on the Global Burden of Disease, health resource allocation, malaria control, and population health measurement and evaluation. IHME is collaborating with hundreds of public health experts and researchers around the world on these projects.
The ABCE project aims to identify impediments to cost-effective, equitable access to health systems and provide policy and strategy options to countries for improving equity in health. The project will include more than a dozen countries.
The goal of DCPN is to improve how health resources are allocated in countries by producing estimates of the costs and cost effectiveness of interventions and health service delivery platforms.
The GBD 2010 Study will produce new estimates measuring the impact of hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 21 regions around the world over two decades. The study is being carried out in collaboration with more than 800 researchers and includes more than 220 conditions and injuries and more than 40 risk factors.
IHME is evaluating the effectiveness of malaria interventions in two countries by analyzing their effect on child mortality and producing estimates at the national and local levels.
This project will explore disparities in chronic disease among US communities by designing a cost-effective and easily scalable data collection system to track such diseases and their accompanying risk factors using multiple data sources.
IHME, working in close collaboration with research organizations in four countries, is developing methods to measure mortality, causes of death, and incidence of major illnesses where data are incomplete.
The goal of the PHMRC Mexico Study was to offer better instruments and methods to countries for measuring population health where cause of death coding and information on disease prevalence is incomplete or inadequate. As part of the study, IHME pioneered new ways to collect cause of death information through verbal autopsies.
IHME is measuring effective coverage in all Washington state counties and conducting one of the largest health surveys ever launched in a local population, work that will provide a model for other states.