Tele-conferencia Carga de la enfermedad, lesiones y factores de riesgo 1990-2010.

Enviado por el Dom, 05/27/2012 - 09:21

Invitation:

From the Area of Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention & Control - HSD/PAHO/WHO

To the Guest Speaker Lecture on: Global Burden of Diseases, injuries and risk factors 1990-2010: trends and challenges

By Prof. Christopher J. L. Murray, the Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington.

 

January 19, 2012 Time:  2:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Eastern Standard Time (Washington DC USA)

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Language: English

To participate in person: Pan American Health Organization, PAHO/WHO 525 23rd St NW  Washington DC 20037 - PAHO HQ Room 1017

To participate online:  To login to the Elluminate session, use the link below and type your name on the sign in page: http:/www.paho.org/Virtual/HSD-HA 

 

Agenda:

2:00 - 2:15        

Welcome and introduction: Dr. Socorro Gross, Assistant Director PAHO/WHO

2:15 - 3:30              

Presentation:
Global Burden of Diseases injuries-risk factors 1990-2010 trends and challenges

Prof. Christopher J. L. Murray, Director of the Institute for Health metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington

3:30 - 3:45             

Coffee break

3:45 - 5:00             

Q&A session - Moderator - Dr Fatima Marinho, Health Information and Analysis HSD

5:00                       

Closing remarks - Dr Marco Espinal, Manager Area of Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention & Control

Presentation Content & discussion   
“……The presentation   will highlight the preliminary results of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study, emphasizing innovations in the collection of data, novel methods of analysis, and visualization tools for data quality assessment.

The results will be contextualized for the countries of the region, and will show DALYs for more than 200 causes, as well the attributable burden for more than 40 risk factors.  This is the first complete revision of the GBD since the original GBD 1990 was published in 1996.  It utilizes vastly improved methods and a wide array of data derived from systematic reviews, constituting the largest repository of epidemiological data for purposes of GBD yet assembled.

IHME was the coordinating institution of the project with key partners such as: The University of Queensland (UQ), the World Health Organization (WHO), Harvard School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (JHSPH). More than 800 disease and risk factors experts served on advisory groups to help inform the analyses…”

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