📊 Launch of the new Global Burden of Disease Study at
#WHS2025
Join us at
#WHS2025 for the launch of the latest Global Burden of Disease 2023 study, the world’s most comprehensive assessment of health challenges and progress.
The session will highlight:
🔹 Progress in global life expectancy and child health
🔹 The growing burden of mental health and NCDs
🔹 How data can shape more resilient and equitable health systems
The keynote session will be presented by the
@IHME_UW and
@TheLancet - moderated by Jane Halton from
@CEPIvaccines.
🎤 On the panel:
🔵 Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet, United Kingdom
🔵 Ximena Aguilera, Minister of Health, Chile
🔵 Emmanuela Gakidou, Co-Founder & Professor of Health Metrics Sciences, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), United States of America
🔵 Christopher J.L. Murray, Director, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), United States of America
🔵 Alarcos Cieza, Unit Head, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, and Disability, World Health Organization (WHO)
🔵 Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Founding Director, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University (AKU), Pakistan
🔵 Irene Akua Agyepong, Public Health Physician, Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, Faculty of Public Health, Ghana
🔵 Michael Brauer, Professor, School of Population and Public Health, The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
🔵 Ibrahim Abubakar, Dean and Pro-Provost (Health), Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London (UCL), United Kingdom
🔵 Damian Santomauro, Stream Lead, Epidemiology and Burden of Disease Research, Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR), Australia
🗓️ Sunday, October 12
🕓 16:00–17:30 CEST | 14:00–15:30 UTC
📍 Berlin & Online
🔗 Learn more about this session:
worldhealthsummit.org/sessio…