IHME GBD

Healthcare and Life Sciences · by Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation · Verified

Connector Explore IHME Global Burden of Disease data: causes of death, disease burden, and risk factors worldwide.

Install

In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors.
Find IHME GBD in the directory, or choose Add custom connector and paste the URL below.
Sign in to Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and review what it asks to reach.

Connector URL

https://gbdmcp.healthdata.org/mcp

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http ihme-gbd https://gbdmcp.healthdata.org/mcp

Run in a terminal, then run /mcp in Claude Code to sign in.

Add in Claude Open on claude.com

About

Ask Claude questions about the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study — the largest and most comprehensive effort to quantify health loss across places and over time — for any country, region, cause, or risk factor. The connector retrieves results directly from the GBD database; it does not model or generate new values.

Query deaths, DALYs, YLLs, and YLDs; risk factor exposures and attributable burden; life expectancy, healthy life expectancy (HALE), child mortality, population, and fertility; and detailed injury, impairment, and pathogen data — with Socio-demographic Index (SDI) context for development comparisons.

Beyond direct queries, five ready-made profiles generate narrative overviews with tables, charts, and maps: Location, Location Comparison, Disease, Sub-cause Comparison, and Risk-Outcome. Ask naturally, then narrow, broaden, or challenge the results through follow-up — no special commands required.

Example questions:

• What are the top causes of death in Nigeria?

• How has life expectancy in China changed over time?

• Which risk factors drive the most cardiovascular disease in Latin America?

• Compare child mortality across India's states.

Think of it as a fast, conversational front-end for exploring GBD data — complementing IHME's GBD Compare and Results Tool rather than replacing them.

Tools

build_choropleth_map
build_disease_children_profile
build_disease_profile
build_location_children_profile
build_location_profile
build_risk_outcome_profile
check_profile_cache
define_term
get_actual_vs_expected
get_cause_burden
get_cause_trend
get_child_mortality_trend
get_etiology
get_fertility
get_hale
get_impairment
get_injury_burden
get_le_decomposition
get_life_expectancy
get_mmr
get_mortality_probability
get_multi_location_trend
get_percent_change
get_population

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From the maker

Facts

Kind: Connector
Category: Healthcare and Life Sciences
Made by: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Runs: Remote server
Works in: Claude, Claude API, Claude Code, Claude Desktop
Sign-in: Required
Added: 2026-09-24
Source: Verified