Abstract

Unfolding Decades of Global Health Developments
Track: Health and Human Services
Authors: Peter Speyer, John Waterman

With the explosion of data from global health indicators now available, how do we make sense of it? The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), a research foundation based in Seattle, Washington, is tackling that challenge and using geographic information system (GIS) technology to share the results. IHME, established in 2007 with support from the State of Washington and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (the Foundation), has a mission to contribute to worldwide human health improvement by making the best information on population health available to others in comprehensible formats. IHME is doing this by gathering and examining many kinds of information (Census, vital statistics, surveys, and administrative) to produce scientific evaluations of health conditions and health systems performance. With great success, IHME released their data to the public using Esri's ArcGIS Server Flex API. See: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/index.html and http://www.gcs-research.net/ihme/indicatorview/map/ihmeview.html?health=mrt.5q0&aid=aid.in&year=2004

Peter Speyer
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98101
United States
Phone: 1 206 897 2864
E-mail: speyer@uw.edu

John Waterman
GCS Research
115 South Fourth Street W
Missoula, Montana 59801
United States
Phone: 406-532-3254
E-mail: jwaterman@gcs-research.com