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Nearly two billion people worldwide live with anemia — a condition defined by insufficient healthy red blood cells — yet public awareness of its scope and diversity remains limited. This piece, co-authored with Theresa McHugh and Nicholas Kassebaum, discusses findings from the GBD 2021 anaemia study published in The Lancet Haematology. We examine the leading causes — dietary iron deficiency, hemoglobinopathies, and tropical infectious diseases — the populations most affected, and the evidence for multi-pronged intervention strategies that move beyond iron supplementation alone.
Read at The Conversation →An interview on the findings of our global anemia burden study and the policy implications of its heterogeneous etiology. The central argument: because anemia arises from a wide range of causes — nutritional deficiencies, inherited blood disorders, chronic infection, and systemic inflammation — treatment and prevention strategies must be targeted to local epidemiology rather than applied uniformly.
Read at News Decoder →Radio interview with KCBS reporter Jennifer Hodges on the global burden of anemia, the GBD 2021 study findings, and what the data suggest about priorities for global public health investment.
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