Playing Games With Public Health Data.

Thanks to $600 million from the Gates Foundation, the IHME can make its own rules. The relationship between The Lancet and the institute was further underscored last year when Murray nominated Horton to receive the $100,000 Roux Prize from the IHME. In 2012 the two commissioned an external IHME evaluation, which found that the institute is "not consistent in when and to whom it shares methods, data sources, authorship and this is perceived as not being transparent" and that "the extensive resources of IHME relative to other institutions have created an unhealthy imbalance in the field." In 2019, Lancet editor Richard Horton (below) was nominated by Murray for the $100,000 Roux Prize PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): The juggernaut: IHME director Chris Murray is a towering figure in global health. [Extracted from the article]

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