Reducing children’s exposure to malaria infection in Africa substantially cuts the risk of hospitalization for emergency care. Robert S. Paton, Alice Kamau et.al in their paper; Malaria infection and severe disease risks in Africa. science.sciencemag.org/content/373/65…

Research Highlight from Alice Kamau Alice Kamau KEMRI-Wellcome Malaria infection and severe disease risks in Africa tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/research-… science.sciencemag.org/content/373/65…

Dont forget those out-of-school nature.com/articles/s4159… WorldPopProject CarlaPi Population Health Unit

New work just published examining approaches to map out-of-school adolescents and youths in low- and middle-income countries lead by valegana: nature.com/articles/s4159…

🎉 Huge congratulations to Peter Macharia (Pete Macharia), KEMRI-Wellcome | IDeAL, Africa | Lancaster University on winning RSTMH's 2021 Emerging Leaders Award! 🥇 Find out more about our 2021 Medals & Awards winners: bit.ly/3Dn4x6W

Very grateful to Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for the award; my mentors (@EmanueleLANCS, Emelda Okiro & Bob Snow) family, friends for unwavering support; KEMRI-Wellcome & IDeAL, Africa for the platform; Sam Kinyanjui for nomination; The Royal Society for current NIF fellowship and my host Lancaster University.

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Unmet need for #COVID19 vaccination coverage in #Kenya by Samuel Muchiri et al Vaccine in Dec 2021 was 16.7%, forecasted as 30.75% by end March 2022 In absence of accelerated uptake, 17.2 m adults may not be vaccinated by end 03/2022 doi.org/10.1016/j.vacc…

Research Highlight from Victor Alegana valegana KEMRI-Wellcome Unmet need for COVID-19 vaccination coverage in Kenya ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Our 2nd paper on our work on impact of COVID-19 on utilisation of health services in Kenya while at KEMRI-Wellcome is out. Emelda Okiro @ProfMikeEnglish Ministry of Health Most outpatients services were affected with immunisation services remaining unaffected. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/3/e…

Research Highlight from Steven Wambua Steven Wambua, PhD KEMRI-Wellcome Quantifying the indirect impact of COVID-19 pandemic on utilisation of outpatient and immunisation services in Kenya: longitudinal study using time series analysis ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/3/e…

Recently published! Quantifying the indirect impact of COVID-19 pandemic on utilisation of outpatient and immunisation services in Kenya: a longitudinal study using interrupted time series analysis bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/3/e…

We celebrate Dr. Emelda Okiro for her Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship award! “To be awarded this fellowship is a great honour, I am grateful those who have inspired and supported me so far.” See kemri-wellcome.org/news/celebrati… Philip Bejon Prof. Bob Snow Joseph Mwangangi

Do you have a masters relevant to #epidemiological research, statistics, global &/or public #health? There is a job opening with Population Health Unit at KEMRI-Wellcome to support questnetwork.org/quest-kenya work in #Kenya #IkoKaziKE Apply by 5th June 2022 jobs.kemri-wellcome.org/job-advert/res…

#Geographic access to public & private health facilities in #Kenya in 2021: An updated list & #spatial analysis Our new paper in Frontiers - Public Health led by Turi Updated coordinates, HFs & access metrics Public & private Overlaid with disease burden frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Celebrating GIS Week Faculty of Engineering Join me for a session on GIS in health. Learning from great mentors in the field Pete Macharia Emelda Okiro, Prof. Justine Blanford and colleagues Population Health Unit - now happy to share the knowledge and let the ripple effect continue #GISDay

#PhD studentship at KEMRI-Wellcome with Population Health Unit group. Framework to understand impact of targeted #malaria chemoprevention strategies among primary school children in #Kenya. Msc in Epi, public health, biostats, #geospatial etc Apply by 11/02/23 jobs.kemri-wellcome.org/phd-training-p…

#Geographic accessibility & hospital competition for emergency blood transfusion services in #Kenya by eddahmumo et al in Int J Health Geogr Average travel time was 33 min. Hospitals in urban areas had a spatial competitive advantage over those in rural areas. doi.org/10.1186/s12942…

Blood transfusion is a critical intervention. We look at disparities in access to transfusion service in our New paper from Population Health Unit Sophie Uyoga KEMRI-Wellcome

Population Health Unit is looking for 2 #GIS assistant research officers Support pop health: #malaria epi, physical access, determinants of #health, vulnerability, use of outputs in decision-making BSc in a #spatial related course #gischat apply by 24/4/23 jobs.kemri-wellcome.org/job-advert/ass…