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.
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A brief explanation of the statistics used for GlobalPost's Special Report on child mortality.