Mortality in Iraq paper out

I was traveling last week for a verbal autopsy conference, and now that I’m catching up I can share this: my study on Mortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation has been published in PLoS Medicine.

It is great that this paper got some media coverage, because it was really hard work. Here are a few examples of how the science looked in the popular press:

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-iraq-war-deaths-20131016,0,6128082.story

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131015-iraq-war-deaths-survey-2013/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/16/this-chart-shows-that-the-iraq-war-was-worse-than-we-think/

New Study Estimates Nearly 500,000 Died in Iraq War

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/23/new-report-cites-half-a-million-war-related-dead-in-iraq.html

Lots of moving photos in the files to accompany this story!