Welcome to the GBD Online Learning Repository!
This online learning repository aims to help users of the GBD in understanding the key analytical strategies, data sources, and results. To orient health experts to the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, this online learning repository will include a general overview of GBD methodology, tools, and data for the purposes of supporting fluency using GBD visualization tools, and interpreting and applying results to decision-making.
Video Resources: This folder contains lecture videos from various graduate courses by the Department of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington. The lecture videos are categorized into following topical areas:
Approach to Measurement: Videos about the conceptual and theoretical approaches used to measurement used in the GBD.
Indicators: Topical videos about different types of indicators that are measured in health metrics sciences
Data: Videos about data utilization, processing, and management in health metrics sciences.
Demography: Videos about the demography estimation process used in the GBD.
History of Health Metric Sciences: Videos about the history of population health, key principles and features in the field of health metrics sciences.
Metrics: Videos about the different types of measures and metrics used in the field of health metrics sciences.
Modeling Processes: Videos about the various techniques used in the GBD to model, manage, and manipulate data
Results: Videos about the high-level results produced by the GBD
Publications: This page contains recent IHME global publications on the Global Burden of Disease Study and the GBD India publications by the India State-Level Disease Burden Initiative. Click the underlined title to access the publication of choice.
GBD Tools: This folder contains links to the various IHME interactive data visual tools. The interactive data visuals provide opportunities for exploring GBD data and results at the global, regional, national, and local levels.
Supplementary materials: In this folder, you will find quick reference materials of important GBD features.