Thank you for your interest in joining the Collaborator Network for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study. If you are a former or current employee of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, please contact gbdsec@uw.edu before completing this form to receive specific guidance about your eligibility and how to apply.
Full details about the GBD Collaborator Network can be found on the IHME website.
Interested individuals must meet all the following minimum requirements:
If an applicant does not meet these requirements, they may be admitted following favorable review by GBD leadership.
If you are a former or current employee of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, please contact gbdsec@uw.edu before completing this form to receive specific guidance about your eligibility and how to apply.
Please review your primary email address. This is the email address to which we will send all GBD-related correspondence.
Personal Information
Personal Information Part 2
Contact Information
Education and Experience
Institutional Affiliations
Areas of Expertise
Acknowledgements
All fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required. Please enter your name as you would like it to appear for authorship purposes.
(How would you like to be addressed?)
To which gender do you most identify?
In pursuit of fostering a diverse community, we request this information to better understand and serve the breadth of our network.
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Please type in abbreviated format and only enter a single degree. For example, type “MDS” instead of "Master of Dental Surgery".
Please note: Affiliations must fit the format listed below and may be reviewed and edited to fit it. (example: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.)
Please provide the name of the organization that pays your salary or manages your current research/studies. If you have multiple roles, list the one most relevant to this collaboration.
For each subset of topics, please select the areas in which you have demonstrated expertise.
By indicating expertise in one or more of the topics below, you are stating you have studied, published, or worked on that topic or in that setting and you feel well qualified to comment, critique, and contribute to improving the GBD results in this area.
We invite you to please indicate the most important and relevant areas of expertise for you in each of the sections below. It is possible that one or more of the sections do not apply. Thank you.
At least one topic from all sections combined must be selected.
Please select the areas in which you have demonstrated expertise.
You may select more than one option, indicating that you would like to be a Collaborator on multiple diseases and/or injuries. Only conditions at the most detailed level are available for selection.
By indicating expertise you are stating that you have studied, published, or worked on that topic or in that setting.
Please select only conditions in which you have significant professional expertise.
Please consider each of the statements below carefully and provide a response to each one.
Many Collaborators wish to be connected with other Collaborators who share similar areas of expertise or geographic location for purposes related directly to the Network and its activities. If you agree, we would potentially share your name, primary institution, title, email address, and topics of expertise with other Collaborators.
We may decide to list Collaborator names, institutional affiliations, and areas of expertise on the IHME website.
Thank you for completing your Collaborator Application Form. We will respond to your application as soon as possible. If you wish to know the status of your application or to update your information, please close this form and contact us at gbdsec@uw.edu. Please do not resubmit this form, as doing so will cause issues with your collaborator account and opportunities for participation.