Global Projects
The global projects in collaboration with international partners aim to reduce the global burden of diabetes. DDT contributes technical skills and resources to international or national organizations and public health agencies in other countries to support research and programs related to diabetes prevention and control in these countries.
Current Research Projects
- Estimating Global Health Care Expenditure Associated with Diabetes
This project estimates health care expenditures associated with diabetes by country, by region, and for the world. Quantifying the diabetes burden for individual countries, different regions of the world, and the world as a whole can help researchers and public officials monitor changes over time and assess the effect of their efforts to prevent and manage diabetes at national, regional, and international levels. - Collaborative Research in Diabetes Epidemiology and Economics
This project, in collaboration with national organizations or public research institutes in other countries, is designed to provide technical skills and resources to support diabetes epidemiology and economics research that is mutually beneficial to DDT and to DDT’s partners, especially in developing countries.
Recent Publications
- Green A, Hede SM, Patterson CC, Wild SH, Imperatore G, Roglic G, Beran D. Type 1 diabetes in 2017: global estimates of incident and prevalent cases in children and adults. Diabetologia. 2021 Dec;64(12):2741–2750.
- Bracco PA, Gregg EW, Rolka DB, Schmidt MI, Barreto SM, Lotufo PA, Bensenor I, Duncan BB. Lifetime risk of developing diabetes and years of life lost among those with diabetes in Brazil. J Glob Health. 2021 Jul 3;11:04041.
- Siegel KR, Albright AL. Population-level approaches to preventing type 2 diabetes globally. Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am. 2021 Sep;50(3):401–414.