The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today awarded its neighbor, the University of Washington, $279 million over 10 years to develop and maintain databases that measure health trends around the globe.
The university’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation was created in 2007 after a $105 million grant from the Gates Foundation helped lure three Harvard researchers to the West Coast. Since then, its staff has grown to 300. The institute’s computers analyze data from 2,000 collaborating researchers from around the world. It’s hallmark effort, the Global Burden of Disease project, aims to quantify diseases, risk factors, and injuries in 130 countries.
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