The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study provides a comprehensive picture of mortality and disability across countries, time, age, and sex. It quantifies health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved and disparities eliminated.| Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Max is the founder of Our World in Data and began working on this free online publication in 2011. Today, he serves as the publication’s editor and leads the team as its co-director.He is the Professor of Practice in Global Data Analytics at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, the Programme Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development, and the Executive Co-Director of Global Change Data Lab, the non-profit organization that publishes Our World in Data.| Our World in Data
Hannah joined us in 2017. She became Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead at Our World in Data in 2023. She was previously Head of Research.She focuses on the long-term changes in the environment – energy, pollution, agriculture, food supply – and their compatibility with global development. Hannah completed her Ph.D. in GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh.She is a researcher at the Oxford Martin Programme in Global Development, and an honorary fellow at the University of Edinbu...| Our World in Data
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