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Dear Collaborators,
Happy 2019! The new year is underway here in Seattle, and we wanted to share an upcoming deadline and a new opportunity.
We also wanted to take a moment to wish you a happy new year on behalf of the GBD and IHME, and success in all of your many endeavors.
Warm Regards,
GBD Secretariat
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2019 Roux Prize
Nomination Deadline
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There's still time to
nominate an outstanding colleague
for the Roux prize.
Deadline: January 31, 2019
Nominees may come from anywhere in the world and could include staff in government agencies, researchers at academic institutions, representatives from charitable organizations, or health providers working in communities.
The only requirement is that they have used disease burden evidence to improve health and can show evidence of the impact made at the local, national, or global level. The winner will be announced at an event in fall 2019.
For more information, please visit rouxprize.org.
The Roux Prize was launched in 2013 to recognize individuals or groups, and it was founded by philanthropists David and Barbara Roux. It is awarded annually by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
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2018 Roux Prize Winner:
Dr. Cynthia Maung
Dr. Cynthia Maung, a Burmese physician and Director of a clinic in Thailand, won the Roux Prize in 2018 for using health data to improve the lives of refugees, migrant workers, and internally displaced people along the Burmese-Thai border. Maung, a refugee herself, established the Mae Tao Clinic in 1989 with the help of other Burmese physicians who fled to the city of Mae Sot, Thailand, to escape civil unrest in Burma. Maung collaborated with volunteers and received funding to develop a health information system that today is used throughout Burma and Thailand. The system has increased the quality of data and care for her clients, many of whom are stateless and, therefore, often overlooked in national statistical surveys. You can view past winners here.
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2019 GBD Technical Workshop
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Save the date!
The GBD Technical Workshop is a great learning opportunity for researchers, academic leaders, policymakers, and individuals working at non-governmental organizations, foundations, country offices of health statistics, and national and multinational health organizations.
This workshop aims to help introductory level learners of the GBD develop mastery and greater fluency in GBD methods, tools, and data. It provides both a breadth and depth of exploration and hands-on learning about key aspects of the GBD study, including its analytical methods, data sources, visualization tools, and policy implications. Additionally, the workshop cultivates connections, knowledge sharing, discourse, and debate with an audience of engaged practitioners and collaborators. An important prerequisite of the workshop is completing the GBD online training, which is included in registration for the workshop.
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GBD Technical Workshop:
Scholarship applications open
Deadline Feb 11
IHME is pleased to announce that, thanks to the generosity of the Center for Health Trends and Forecasts, scholarships are available to a limited number of participants who wish to attend the GBD Technical Workshop. Full and partial scholarship are available. Interested individuals need to apply prior to February 11, 2019.
More information is available here.
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Please let us know about recent publications, if you’ll be speaking at a conference, if you have used the GBD in policy work, or any GBD-related news coverage in your country or topic of interest so we can include this information in future updates to the GBD network.
Contact the GBD Secretariat at gbdsec@uw.edu with any updates or questions.
For more news about GBD, please visit www.healthdata.org/gbd. For IHME news please visit our website, www.healthdata.org, subscribe to our RSS feed, follow us on Twitter @IHME_UW, and join us on Facebook.
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