Air pollution and health in Italy: analysis of time trends 1990-2019 from GBD 2019 estimates
Air pollution is one of the risk factors assessed by the Global Burden of Disease Study and is of great importance in population health. It actually ranks fourth in terms of impact on a global scale. Since it is known that air quality in Italy has peculiar criticalities, especially in the Po...
How to arrive prepared for future pandemics?
In a recent episode of IHME's "Global Health Insights," Joseph Dieleman, professor of Health Metrics Sciences at IHME, and Thomas Bollyky, director of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Global Health program, discuss how to arrive prepared for the next pandemic. The conversation revolves...
IRCCS Neurologico Mediterraneo in Pozzilli joins signatories of agreement
We are happy and honored to welcome IRCCS Neurologico Mediterraneo of Pozzilli (IS) among the signatories of the collaboration agreement for the development and implementation of the Global Burden of Disease project in Italy. With IRCCS Neuromed, there are now 20 research institutions involved in...
WHO WE ARE.
The Italian Global Burden of Disease Initiative, or Italian GBD Initiative, is an Italian network of researchers actively contributing to the project Global Burden of Disease Study, GBD.
To date, more than 150 collaborators from more than 25 research institutions are part of the Italian GBD Initiative.