Murray, GBD is based in the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
It also introduced the disability-adjusted life year (DALY) as a new metric to quantify the burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors,[4][5][6] to aid comparisons.
[3] In 2000–2002, the 1990 study was updated by WHO to include a more extensive analysis using a framework known as comparative risk factor assessment.
[11][12] The work quantified the burdens of 291 major causes of death and disability and 67 risk factors disaggregated by 21 geographic regions and various age–sex groups.
The life of Christopher Murray and the Global Burden of Disease Study is told in Epic Measures: One Doctor.
Diarrhoeal diseases, lower respiratory infections, neonatal causes and malaria remain in the top five causes of death in children younger than 5 years.
[30][31][32] It also found that the global annual rate of new HIV infections has largely stayed the same during the past 10 years.
[34][35][36] The results of the Global Burden of Disease Study have been cited by The New York Times,[37] The Washington Post,[38] Vox,[39] and The Atlantic.
[42][43][44][45][46][47] "GBD 2010" proper means the paper was published as part of the original triple issue in The Lancet.