On Thursday, Professor Ali Mokdad from IHME will release new data on alcohol trends for every county in the United States. Then, on Friday, we’ll present “The big picture: measuring the health of cities and states, countries and continents,” with Jeremy N. Smith, author of “Epic Measures: One Doctor, Seven Billion Patients”; Dr. Christopher Murray, IHME’s director and co-creator of the Global Burden of Disease project; and Dr. George Rutherford, director of UC San Francisco’s Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and one of the world’s leading experts on valley fever.