1. Producing Consistent Long-Term Time-Series of Cause-of-Death Statistics with Verbal Autopsies Lessons from the Harmonization of 25 Years of Data in the Africa Health Research Institute • Ariane Sessego , INED; Siyabonga Nxumalo, Africa Health Research Institute; Dickman Gareta, Africa Health Research Institute; Alison Castle, Massachussets General Hospital; Kobus Herbst, Africa Health Research Institute.

2. Clustering mortality data over time and across countries • Pedro Menezes de Araujo , University College Dublin; Isobel Claire Gormley, University College Dublin; Thomas Brendan Murphy, University College Dublin; Ugofilippo Basellini, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

3. Are Age Misreporting Patterns Universal? Evidence and Methodological Solutions for Sub-Saharan Africa • Marília Nepomuceno , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR); Benjamin-Samuel Schlueter, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Yempabou Bruno Lankoande, Institut Superieur des Sciences de la Population at the Joseph Ki-Zerbo University.