With a new report highlighting that one-third of the world’s population is overweight or obese, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s latest analysis is garnering major news coverage from outlets including the Wall Street Journal, BBC News, and GlobalPost, and in India, South Africa, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand, and the UK. The report release, like any big IHME report, features infographics and data visualizations showing growing obesity in the Middle East and developing world. Authors include UW faculty, staff and fellows: Marie Ng, Christopher J L Murray, Emmanuela Gakidou, lan D Lopez, Tom Achok, Ali Mokdad, Tom Fleming, Margaret Robinson, Blake Thomson, Nicholas Graetz, Christopher Margono, Erin C Mullany, Stan Biryukov. Read the study for a full list of authors.
June 02, 2014 | Department News