Global Health Epidemiology Research Group (GHERG) is an extension of Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group (CHERG). GHERG aims to address global health issues in age groups beyond 0-4 years.
Similarly to CHERG (www.cherg.org), the overall goal of GHERG is to develop and deploy new and improved evidence:
on the causes and determinants of morbidity and mortality among adolescents and adults in all world regions, on the importance of a broad range of risk factors, and on the effectiveness of public health interventions, to inform and influence global priorities and programs.
The main purposes of the GHERG are:
- to publish papers, reports and reviews on global health epidemiology, with a special focus on identifying information of sufficient quality in low and middle-income countries and filling the gaps in information for regions where the data are very scarce and of insufficient quality;
- to advise WHO and other international organizations on the most appropriate methods and assumptions for their global, regional and country level epidemiological estimates;
- to advise researchers and public health officials on the different issues involved in the estimation of cause-specific morbidity and mortality.
The core members of GHERG are the editors and regional editors of the “Journal of Global Health”, who are all independent researchers working for the leading academic institutions. However, GHERG is open to everyone to contribute their data, methods and estimates, and it aims to serve global health community by providing unrestricted open access to its datasets, methods and publications, and continuously revising and updating global health estimates for a targeted set of conditions.
Examples of GHERG publications include:
Chan KY, Wang W, Wu JJ, Liu L, Theodoratou E, Car J, Middleton L, Russ TC, Deary IJ, Campbell H, Wang W, Rudan I; Global Health Epidemiology Reference Group (GHERG).
Epidemiology of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in China, 1990-2010: a systematic review and analysis. Lancet. 2013;381(9882):2016-23.
Fowkes FG, Rudan D, Rudan I, Aboyans V, Denenberg JO, McDermott MM, Norman PE, Sampson UK, Williams LJ, Mensah GA, Criqui MH.
Comparison of global estimates of prevalence and risk factors for peripheral artery disease in 2000 and 2010: a systematic review and analysis. Lancet. 2013;382(9901):1329-40.
Chan KY, Zhao FF, Meng S, Demaio AR, Reed C, Theodoratou E, Campbell H, Wang W, Rudan I.
Urbanization and the prevalence of schizophrenia in China between 1990 and 2010. World Psychiatry. 2015;14(2):251-2.
He C, Liu L, Chu Y, Perin J, Dai L, Li X, Miao L, Kang L, Li Q, Scherpbier R, Guo S, Rudan I, Song P, Chan KY, Guo Y, Black RE, Wang Y, Zhu J.
National and subnational all-cause and cause-specific child mortality in China, 1996-2015: a systematic analysis with implications for the Sustainable Development Goals. Lancet Glob Health. 2017;5(2):e186-e197.
Song P, Zhang Y, Yu J, Zha M, Zhu Y, Rahimi K, Rudan I.
Global Prevalence of Hypertension in Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatr. 2019;173(12):1154-1163.
Song P, Rudan D, Zhu Y, Fowkes FJI, Rahimi K, Fowkes FGR, Rudan I.
Global, regional, and national prevalence and risk factors for peripheral artery disease in 2015: an updated systematic review and analysis. Lancet Glob Health. 2019;7(8):e1020-e1030.
Song P, Fang Z, Wang H, Cai Y, Rahimi K, Zhu Y, Fowkes FGR, Fowkes FJI, Rudan I.
Global and regional prevalence, burden, and risk factors for carotid atherosclerosis: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and modelling study. Lancet Glob Health. 2020;8(5):e721-e729.
Adeloye D, Song P, Zhu Y, Campbell H, Sheikh A, Rudan I; NIHR RESPIRE Global Respiratory Health Unit.
Global, regional, and national prevalence of, and risk factors for, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in 2019: a systematic review and modelling analysis. Lancet Respir Med. 2022;10(5):447-458.
Yuan C, Adeloye D, Luk TT, Huang L, He Y, Xu Y, Ye X, Yi Q, Song P, Rudan I; Global Health Epidemiology Research Group.
The global prevalence of and factors associated with Helicobacter pylori infection in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2022;6(3):185-194.
Song P, He Y, Adeloye D, Zhu Y, Ye X, Yi Q, Rahimi K, Rudan I; Global Health Epidemiology Research Group (GHERG).
The Global and Regional Prevalence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: A Systematic Review and Modeling Analysis. Ann Surg. 2023;277(6):912-919.
Zhao J, Xu L, Sun J, Song M, Wang L, Yuan S, Zhu Y, Wan Z, Larsson S, Tsilidis K, Dunlop M, Campbell H, Rudan I, Song P, Theodoratou E, Ding K, Li X.
Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019. BMJ Oncol. 2023;2(1):e000049.
An ongoing JoGH Collection with further GHERG publications is available here: