The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD), which began in 1992, is an ongoing project that aims to estimate the impact that diseases, injuries and risk factors have on health and mortality worldwide, by country and over time. Twenty years ago, in four papers published in The Lancet, Murray and Lopez described findings from an early iteration of the GBD. The papers estimated causes of death and disability worldwide in 1990, and projected how patterns were likely to change in subsequent decades. This work formed the basis for the contemporary GBD, which was recently described5 as a “GPS for global health”.
In this paper in which he mentions INDEPTH "In Retrospect: Global health estimated over two decades", Prof. Peter Byass (who is the INDEPTH SAC Chair), argues that despite subsequent advances, better integration of data systems and models is still needed. In 2010, the INDEPTH Executive Director Osman Sankoh called for a collaboration between international institutes that do these global estimates with local institutes in his paper "Global health estimates: stronger collaboration needed with low- and middle-income countries."(PLoS Med 7(11):e1001005). Read more
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