Tim Exton

Tim Exton is a Communications Officer with the Global Engagement Team at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). A multimedia journalist who joined IHME in early 2020, Exton's career has taken him to more than twenty countries, where he reported on a wide range of topics. Prior to joining IHME he covered the Pacific Northwest of the United States as a freelance video journalist for Reuters and other outlets.

A 3-year-old boy named Eduardo holding father Luis’s hand on Nov. 7, 2018. Both are from Central America, where progress toward reducing stunting in children under 5 has been particularly noticeable. Picture shows Eduardo looking up pensively at his father at they walk along a road in what appears to be dusk or pre-dawn dim light. Luis is off-camera and only his arm visible. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
Poverty

Rethinking Ways to Address Child Growth Failure

by Simon I. Hay, Tim Exton

Precision health mapping of regional and local targets would help steer limited resources to the places of greatest need