Acknowledgments
In writing this chapter we have drawn on documentation prepared by the many people involved in the GBD studies and acknowledged this as far as possible by means of citations. We would especially like to acknowledge the assistance of Doris Ma Fat and Mie Inoue, who compiled comprehensive summaries of mortality data sources for GBD 2001 (Mathers, Lopez, and others 2004), which we have drawn on here, and the assistance of Chalapati Rao, who carried out analyses of the latest mortality data for China, India, Iran, Turkey, and various other countries.
Many people, both inside and outside WHO, contributed to the GBD analyses reported here. Apart from the authors, current and former staff of the former WHO Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy who worked directly on the GBD 2001 include Omar Ahmad, Jose Ayuso, Prerna Banati, Stephen Begg, Christina Bernard, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Marisol Concha, Carmen Dolea, Majid Ezzati, Doris Ma Fat, Brodie Ferguson, Kim Moesgaard Iburg, Mie Inoue, Jeremy Lauer, Matilde Leonardi, Steve Lim, Rafael Lozano, Sue Piccolo, Chalapati Rao, Tanuja Rastogi, Eduardo Sabate, Joshua Salomon, Toshi Satoh, Kenji Shibuya, Claudia Stein, Lana Tomaskovic, Niels Tomijima, Thomas Truelsen, Bedirhan Ustun, Marie-Claude von Rulach, Sarah Wild, and Hongyi Xu. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of David Evans, director of the Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy.
We also wish to acknowledge the contributions of staff in various WHO programs and of expert groups outside WHO who provided advice and collaborated in the reviews of epidemiological data and in the estimation of the burden of disease. While it is not possible to name all those who contributed to this effort, we would like to note the considerable assistance and inputs provided by Carla AbouZahr, Elisabeth Aahman, Jan Barendregt, Maureen Birmingham, Jennifer Bryce, Mercedes de Onis, Chris Dye, Jacques Ferlay, Anthony Gerbase, Ken Hill, Yvan Hutin, Gareth Jones, Hilary King, Eline Korenromp, Daniel Lavanchy, Silvio Mariotti, Mike McKenna, Catherine Michaud, Chris Nelson, Tomoko Ono, Donatella Pascolini, Margie Peden, Bruce Pfleger, Paola Pisani, Annette Pruss-Ustun, Juergen Rehm, Serge Resnikoff, Sue Robertson, Gojke Roglic, Kate Strong, Deborah Symmonds, Theo Vos, Neff Walker, Catherine Watt, and Lara Wolfson.
We would also like to thank the Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group, chaired by Robert Black, and established to provide technical advice to WHO on the estimation of child mortality and the burden of disease; the Bone and Joint Decade's Bone and Joint Monitor Project coordinated by Anthony Woolf; and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS and WHO Working Group on Global HIV/AIDS and STI Surveillance. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support for this project from the National Institute on Aging (research grant number PO1 AG17625). The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this chapter, which do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the WHO or of its member states.
