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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation company history timeline

2007

IHME was launched in June 2007 based on a core grant of $105 million primarily funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Among its earliest projects was to produce new estimates of mortality rates, which were published in The Lancet in September 2007.

2010

The policy report The Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy summarizes the GBD 2010 methods and results.

2011

In 2011, IHME co-sponsored the first Global Health Metrics & Evaluation conference in Seattle with The Lancet, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health, and University of Queensland School of Population Health.

2013

GBD 2013 findings were published in a series of papers on smoking; maternal mortality; child mortality; overweight and obesity; HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis; causes of death, nonfatal outcomes, disability-adjusted life years, and risk factors.

2016

Articles using GBD 2016 results to focus on specific topics followed, including studies of death and disability related to alcohol use, US disease burden at the state level, and global mortality from firearms.

2017

GBD 2017 incorporates major data additions and improvements, and methodological refinements.

In 2017, the Gates Foundation provided IHME with another $279 million grant.

2019

GBD 2019 incorporates major data additions and improvements, and methodological refinements.

2020

Other hospital systems and state governments became interested in the projections as they braced for the pandemic, and our public COVID-19 Projections launched in March 2020.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, IHME jumped into action, creating a tool for the University of Washington School of Medicine to determine if and when COVID-19 could overwhelm their hospital.

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