# Christopher Murray Back to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/People|Lomborg People]] · [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|@BjornLomborg]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] **Role:** Physician and health economist; director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington; creator of the Global Burden of Disease study and the DALY metric (with Alan Lopez) ⚠️ (biography from general knowledge, not re-checked) - Lead author of the 2026 *Lancet* Commission on 21st-century global threats to health (Murray CJL et al., *Lancet* 2026; 408: 1603–61), whose Table 2 is the source of Lomborg's chart in [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on the Lancet Commission's Global Health Threats (2026-11-01)|the Lancet Commission's Global Health Threats]]. - IHME's summary of the Commission says its estimates "are not a policy ranking and should not be compared directly", and that the true climate burden is "likely even greater" than the quantified figure.