Determination of the causes of death by verbal autopsy in rural Senegal: A study of malaria mortality • Géraldine Duthé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Serge Faye, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Emmanuelle Guyavarch, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Pascal Arduin, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) ; Malick Kante, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Aldiouma Diallo, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) ; Raphael Laurent, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Adama Marra, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) ; Gilles Pison, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

Adult mortality estimations from cohort and census/survey data: A comparison of direct and indirect methods in rural Malawi • Patrick Gerland, United Nations Population Division ; James Kaphuka, University of Malawi ; George Mandere, University of Malawi ; Humphreys Misiri, University of Malawi ; Peter C. Fleming, University of Pennsylvania

Modeling spatial effects on childhood mortality via geo-additive Bayesian discrete-time survival model: a case study from Nigeria • Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Stockholm University ; Diddy Antai, Karolinska Institutet

Ensuring the sustainability of DSS by making scientific results available to lay persons: case studies in Senegal and Burkina Faso • Nathalie Mondain, Université d'Ottawa ; Pascal Arduin, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)

Measuring cause-specific mortality burden in low-income countries: Experiences from a feasibility study of a post-census mortality survey using verbal autopsy • Robert G. Mswia, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Elisio Mazive, National Institute of Statistics, Mozambique ; Pedro B Duce, Instituto Nacional de Estatística - Mozambique ; Dan Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Philip W Setel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Yusuf Hemed, National Institute of Statistics, Mozambique ; David R Whiting, University of Newcastle upon Tyne ; Loraine A. West, U.S. Census Bureau ; Dennis J Donahue, U.S. Census Bureau ; Peter Young, National Institute of Statistics, Mozambique ; Kimberly Marsh, CDC Mozambique

Population modeling for a small area: a comparative analysis of census and demographic surveillance system data in South Africa • Makandwe Nyirenda, University of Kwazulu-Natal ; Victoria Hosegood, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) ; Tom A. Moultrie, University of Cape Town