Centre for Global Health Research

Projects

Our mission is to lead high-quality public health research that advances global health for all, with particular attention to the world’s poorest populations.

Open Mortality

Our mission is to empower science for improving global health with the world’s information on mortality – helping the living study the dead. Closing the Global Mortality Divide The causes for a majority of…

Geospatial Mortality

One of the core principles of health is that place matters. In this context, maps serve as valuable reporting tools, providing a visual representation of public health disparities. Disease maps are important tools in the management of…

COVID

CGHR’s COVID research focuses on two pillars. The first is the Action to Beat Coronavirus (Ab-C) Study in Canada that aims to investigate how many Canadians have been infected by the virus which causes…

Statistical Methods for Managing Emerging Infectious Diseases

This project assembles the top biostatisticians in Canada working on infectious diseases, and joins them with epidemiologists…

Nationwide Mortality Studies

In Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and other settings, CGHR is working actively with local governments to introduce high-impact, low-cost innovations that document the leading killers and outline solutions to reduce premature mortality.  The Healthy Sierra…

Healthy Longevity Initiative  

Worldwide, the risk of death before age 80 has fallen from nearly 80% in 1970 to just over 50% in 2019. Continuing this extraordinary success is possible, and by 2050, the risk of death…

Global Tobacco

Unless a significant portion of current smokers quit, smoking will cause approximately one billion deaths this century – mostly in low and middle income countries. The use of effective tobacco control policies (including taxation,…

Million Death Study (MDS)

The Million Death Study (MDS) is one of the largest studies of premature mortality in the world. The MDS is an ongoing study that is conducted in India, where, like most low- and middle-income…