Liane Ong

Liane Ong is a lead research scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, where she leads the Brain, Back Pain and Other MSKs, Injuries, Renal, Respiratory, Diabetes, Drugs, and Sensory team.  

Global Cold-Related Deaths
Environment

Out Cold: The Most Common Wintertime Injuries in a Warming World

by Caroline Wilkerson, Andrew Nakamura, Madeline Moberg, Hailey Lenox, Liane Ong

Shifting weather and rising heating costs create wintertime threats, namely among the elderly and other at-risk groups

Men Are Injured More Often Than Women
Gender

Olympics Spotlight Gender-Informed Injury Prevention

by Liane Ong, Madeline Moberg, Hailey Lenox

Some types of injuries are more common among young women athletes

A fentanyl user displays a "safe supply" of opioid alternatives in Vancouver, Canada
Governance

Opioid Overdose Deaths: What the United States Can Learn From Other Countries

by Liane Ong, Garland Culbreth, Annie Chan

Naloxone for everyone and supervised drug consumption rooms could be the future

A woman holds a portrait of her late husband after he passed away due to a diabetes-related heart attack, in Red Wing, Minnesota, on September 29, 2021.
Poverty

Casualties of COVID: Insulin and Dialysis 

by Quinn Rafferty, Lauryn Stafford, Liane Ong

How the pandemic has been life-threatening to people living with diabetes and chronic kidney disease