May 25, 2016
On May 16, 2016, IHPI held its second annual Director's Lecture, featuring Jeremy N. Smith, author of the book, "Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients." The book recounts the dramatic true story behind the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries and Risk Factors Study. Smith, an experienced journalist, went inside this 20-year, 500-scientist, $100-million moonshot attempt to track and quantify every illness, injury, and death for everyone on Earth. His talk, introduced by IHPI Director John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., shows the power of this "big data" in showing what health issues really burden our world, and different countries, states and even U.S. counties, the most. Watch it online here: