Report of the Second meeting of the Burden of Disease Manual Working Group of the European Burden of Disease Network (EBoDN)

The second meeting of the Working Group took place on 21 August 2018 in Berlin, Germany. It was convened by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, jointly with IHME, and cohosted by the Robert Koch Institute. The meeting fully achieved its objectives of:

• discussing the proposed content of the BoD manual;
• reaching agreement on the next steps for finalizing the manual.

The goal of the BoD manual is to provide an update of the 2001 WHO publication National burden of disease studies: a practical guide, taking account of recent developments in BoD methodologies.