GBD governance
Scientific Council
The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Scientific Council oversees and makes key scientific decisions about the GBD process and methods. The Council is composed of leading experts in fields related to GBD. It is not a substitute for peer review of publications or periodic reviews from independent groups. A summary is available of the Council's decisions for each round of GBD from 2013 to the present.
For any questions, please contact the GBD Secretariat at [email protected].
Officers:
Council Chair: Christopher Murray, IHME
Council Secretary: Kara Estep, IHME
Members
- Cristiana Abbafati, Sapienza University of Rome
- Emilie Agardh, Karolinska Institutet
- Ada Al-Qunaibet, Public Health Authority of Saudi Arabia
- Peter Allebeck, Karolinska Institutet
- Susan Anenberg, George Washington University
- Mirza Balaj, Research Centre for Education & Labour Market, Maastricht University
- Zulfiqar Bhutta, Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children; Institute for Global Health & Development, The Aga Khan University South-Central Asia, East Africa, and United Kingdom
- Michael Brauer, University of British Columbia; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Alarcos Ciezaa, World Health Organization
- Lalit Dandona, Public Health Foundation of India; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Mesay Hailu Dangisso, Ethiopian Public Health Institute
- Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Universidad de Cartagena / Universidad de la Costa
- Sebastian Haller, Robert Koch Institute
- Simon Hay, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Laetitia Huiart, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines - Paris Saclay
- Ardeshir Khosravi, Ministry of Health and Medical Education; Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Ann Kristin Knudsen, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Hmwe Kyu, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Stephen Lim, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Rafael Lozano, National Autonomous University of Mexico; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Deborah Carvalho Malta, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- George Mensah, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- Lorenzo Monasta, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo Institute for Maternal and Child Health
- Mohsen Naghavi, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Marie Ng, National University of Singapore; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Shuhei Nomura, Tohoku University; Keio University; University of Tokyo; International University of Health and Welfare
- Liane Ong, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Heather Orpana, Public Health Agency of Canada
- Joshua Salomon, Stanford University
- Zainab Samad, Aga Khan University
- Jürgen Schmidt, Department of Health and Social Care, United Kingdom
- Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Digestive Diseases Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
- Cheryl Tan, Singapore Ministry of Health
- Awoke Misganaw Temesgen, Ethiopian Public Health Institute; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Roman Topor-Madry, Jagiellonian University Medical College; Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariff System
- Elena Varavikova, Federal Research Institute for Health Organization and Informatics of the Ministry of Health of Russia
- Stein Emil Vollset, Norwegian Institute of Public Health; Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Theo Vos, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Haidong Wang, World Health Organization
- Elizabeth Wangia, World Bank, Kenya
- Nicola Warren, University of Queensland