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Smith...chronicles an ambitious project to collect comparative data on global health issues...The boy who had seen poverty firsthand in Africa became a man with a mission 'to measure how we sicken and die in order to improve how we live'...A fascinating account of a charismatic visionary who successfully battles the convoluted politics of international health bureaucracies. -- Kirkus Reviews An impressive account of medicine and statistics, epidemiology and global health. -- Booklist Science writer Smith deftly blends the biography of remarkable doctor and economist Christopher Murray with a history of his greatest public health project...Smith's thoughtful, data-dense material is ideal for students of public health policy, who will appreciate why one public health specialist called Murray and Lopez's work 'epic squared, ' but he also makes Murray's relentless search for a way to understand the human health condition into an inspirational tale for everyone. -- Publishers Weekly

Science writer Smith deftly blends the biography of remarkable doctor and economist Christopher Murray with a history of his greatest public health project...Smith's thoughtful, data-dense material is ideal for students of public health policy, who will appreciate why one public health specialist called Murray and Lopez's work 'epic squared, ' but he also makes Murray's relentless search for a way to understand the human health condition into an inspirational tale for everyone. -- Publishers Weekly An impressive account of medicine and statistics, epidemiology and global health. -- Booklist Smith...chronicles an ambitious project to collect comparative data on global health issues...The boy who had seen poverty firsthand in Africa became a man with a mission 'to measure how we sicken and die in order to improve how we live'...A fascinating account of a charismatic visionary who successfully battles the convoluted politics of international health bureaucracies. -- Kirkus Reviews

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Jeremy N. Smith has written for Discover, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Chicago Tribune, among many other publications. His first book, Growing a Garden City, was one of Booklist's top ten books on the environment for 2011. Born and raised in Evanston, Illinois, he is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Montana. He lives in Missoula, Montana, with his wife and young daughter. Patrick Lawlor, an award-winning narrator, is also an accomplished stage actor, director, and combat choreographer. He has worked extensively off Broadway and has been an actor and stuntman in both film and television. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many starred audio reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.

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