1. Under-Five Mortality and Associated Factors in India: An Analysis for Small Areas • Emerson Baptista, El Colegio de Mexico; Subhojit Shaw, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS); Sampurna Kundu, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

2. Health Regulation Consequences for Subnational Mortality in the United States, 1990–2018 • Denys Dukhovnov, University of California, Berkeley.

3. Must Whatever Goes up Come Down? Mortality Gradients in the Emergence of COVID-19 • Jordan Klein, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

4. Seasonality in Causes of Death in Italian Regions: A Statistical Exploration Using Circular Data Analysis • Isabella Marinetti, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR); Francesco Lagona, Department of Political Sciences, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy; Dmitri A. Jdanov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research / National Research University Higher School of Economics.

5. Small area estimates of under-five, under-one and neonatal mortality in low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2021 • Erin May, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington; Nathaniel Henry, Henry Spatial Analysis; Haley Comfort, University of Washington - IHME; Darwin Jones, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington; Stefanie Watson, University of Washington; Denny Wang, University of Washington; Nicholas Verghese, University of Washington; Reiner Robert, University of Washington, Seattle; Austin E. Schumacher, University Of Washington.