Elizabeth Stuart

GlobalPost

Elizabeth Stuart is a Kaiser Global Health Fellow at GlobalPost. Before joining the team, Elizabeth wrote for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, where she specialized in poverty, immigration and education. She has a B.A. from Brigham Young University and an M.S. from Columbia University.

Health experts assess global immunization efforts

July 30, 2016Politics

Global health experts at a panel discussion Tuesday said vaccines are helping in the battle against child mortality, but funding and health worker shortages are slowing the work.

Pollution and autism linked, kids in poor countries more at risk

July 30, 2016Politics

Focus on health: Obama’s trip to Africa

July 30, 2016Politics

Q & A: Researchers close in on malaria vaccine

July 30, 2016Politics

A look at teen pregnancy around the world

July 30, 2016Politics

Civil war is killing children in the Central African Republic — but it’s not doing it with bullets

July 30, 2016Politics

Experts weigh in on the short- and long-term ways war negatively impacts child health.

Jenny McCarthy’s hiring on ‘The View’ raises public health concerns

July 30, 2016Politics

Critics worry Jenny McCarthy will use her new position as a host for ABC’s “The View” to promote her widely discredited belief that vaccines cause autism.

House foreign aid cuts could hurt children

July 30, 2016Politics

Global health advocates worry deep cuts to development funding in the US House of Representatives’ State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill could hamper efforts to lower child mortality rates.

Already an unlikely success story, Liberia boosts efforts to end child death

July 30, 2016Politics

Liberia recently launched an aggressive new health plan as part of an international movement to end preventable child deaths.

Doctors Without Borders pullout: What will become of Somalia’s children?

July 30, 2016Politics

Doctors Without Borders has played an integral part in Somalia’s child health care system for more than 20 years. In the wake of the international NGO’s decision withdraw from the country this week, other NGOs are scrambling to come up with a plan to fill in the gaps.