VW9: Teaching the Global Burden of Disease

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project is the largest and most comprehensive effort to quantify health status across places and over time so that health systems can be improved and health disparities can be eliminated. This satellite session co-hosted by the CUGH Global Health Educators Community (GHECo, like “gecko”), Teach Global Health (teachglobalhealth.org), and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) will introduce key GBD terminology, methods, and results; demonstrate GBD Compare and other web-based data visualizations (healthdata.org); and discuss strategies for teaching students how to use GBD tools to analyze, compare, and interpret health data from every country in the world