Towards improving the quality and usefulness of GBD tuberculosis estimates
We, as co-chairs of the Panel of Experts of the Global Burden of Disease Independent Advisory Committee (GBD IAC)’s Deep Dive into the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)’s tuberculosis estimates, welcome publication of GBD 2021 Tuberculosis Collaborators’ study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.1 In the study, the authors estimated age-specific trends in tuberculosis incidence and mortality numbers and rates between 1990 and 2021 and assessed progress from 2015 towards the 2020 WHO End TB milestones.