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Global experts warn that today’s decisions across health, finance, climate, defense and security sectors will determine how many years of good health future generations gain – or lose – to preventable illness and early death by 2100.

A new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation finds that chewing tobacco use contributed to an estimated 251,000 deaths globally in 2023, with health loss overwhelmingly concentrated in South Asia.

This session will highlight the Commission’s analysis, presented through the pyramid of threats.

Established in 2020, the award celebrates scholars who are expanding the GBD evidence base, advancing disease estimation, and addressing critical gaps in global health knowledge. This year’s recipients exemplify this mission through their leadership and contributions to global health research.

Researchers estimate that an additional 34.4 million doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, and pharmacists are needed worldwide to achieve moderate levels of universal health coverage, where people can access essential health services without financial hardship.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), an independent research organization at the University of Washington, has received a landmark 10-year grant from the Gates Foundation to strengthen freely available, scientifically rigorous health evidence used by governments, researchers, and leaders to improve the health and well-being of people in Washington, the United States, and around the world.

The prize honors her leadership as Lead Pediatric Oncologist at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, where she has built evidence-driven services that improve early diagnosis, expand access to treatment, and strengthen locally led research. It also recognizes her broader work across Ghana to advance early detection, workforce development, national research collaboration, and African-led evidence for precision oncology.

People around the world are living longer than ever before but spending more of those additional years in poor health, according to a new Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet Public Health.

In 2023, nearly 51 million people were injured and 1.34 million died from road injuries, making road injuries one of the leading global causes of premature death and disability, according to a new study

A new study provides the most comprehensive and conservative analysis to date of the relationship between alcohol consumption and 20 major health outcomes.

Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide are living with a mental disorder, nearly double the number recorded in 1990.

Major depression fluctuates during and after pregnancy but has the highest prevalence 2 weeks after giving birth, a University of Queensland study has found.

Liver cancer mortality has increased by more than 50% since 2000 — from around 43,000 deaths to approximately 69,000 in 2023. Crucially, liver disease remains one of the few major non-communicable diseases still growing, even as Europe has made progress against conditions like heart disease and cancer.

New global study shows 85% of the world’s new cases and 94% of deaths estimated to occur in low- and middle-income countries.

New estimates through 2023 show global maternal mortality progress slowed between 2015 and 2023 compared with 2000–2015. The maternal mortality ratio in 2023 remained nearly three times higher than the UN's Sustainable Development Goal target for 2030.