Pete Macharia
@Pete_M_M
PhD | GIS | Geospatial health | Spatial epidemiology |
@ITMantwerp | visiting @KEMRI_Wellcome | EBM @CommsMedicine |
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Examining inequalities in #spatial access to national health insurance fund-contracted facilities in #Kenya by Jacob Kazungu et al in Int Journal for Equity in Health
• 3858 NHIF-contracted facilities.
• 81% within 60-minute travel time
• Subnational variation: 28% to 100%
Inform…
You often use Google Maps on your phone to estimate the time to get to a certain place. What if the same technology was used to estimate travel time to emergency obstetric care facilities in urban areas?
See Tackling In-transit delays 4 Mothers in Emergency's new paper #Geographical accessibility to functional…
We are hosting Turi & Moses from Population Health Unit (@KEMRI_Wellcome) at Sexual & Reproductive Health Group at ITM Antwerp (@ITMantwerp).
For the next 3 weeks, they will be improving their #spatial & #geostatistical skills for analysing survey (@DHSprogram) & routine (@dhis_2 ) data for maternal & child…
#Geographic inequalities and social-demographic determinants of reproductive, maternal, and child health at sub-national levels in Kenya by Karimi et al., a Research Square #preprint
👉Counties in the northeastern, eastern, and coastal regions had the lowest RMCH index due to…
Fully funded #PhD studentship:
Novel #geospatial methods for combining data at multiple #spatial & temporal scales in the context of historical disease #mapping Lancaster University
1. Develop geospatial methods to extract and analyse and geographic information from ambiguous &…
Towards more realistic measures of #accessibility to emergency departments in Sweden by Hassler et al in Int J Health Geogr
‣ 'As people go to work or perform other activities, they relocate in space. The “accuracy” of estimates based on resident population data, where it is implicitly…
Participating in the #GEOHeatSprint event at World Meteorological Organization in Geneva🇨🇭
Organised by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), towards developing a Global Heat resilience service to provide every #urban area with localised data, information & insights on the health risks from exposure to extreme heat
Great…
#Geospatial Investigations in Colombia reveal variations in the distribution of mood and psychotic disorders by Song, Loes Olde Loohuis et al in Communications Medicine
Inequitable geographic accessibility of specialty mental healthcare services.
Targeting resources to identify severely ill…
#Mapping heterogeneity in family planning indicators in Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Nigeria, 2000–2020, by Laura Dwyer-Lindgren et al. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in BMC Medicine
'Despite substantial increases in contraceptive use, too many women still have an unmet need for modern methods of…
PhD Student in #Biostatics / #Epidemiology / #Geography at Africa Health Research Institute in collaboration with University of KZN
Quantify the shifts in the #spatial , temporal and demographic burden of HIV incidence and underlying viral load patterns
Design future intervention programs which will maximize…
A consolidated & #geolocated facility list in Senegal from triangulating secondary data by Gueye et al in Scientific Data
Having a geolocated list of all facilities in a country – a “master facility list” – can provide critical inputs for health program planning and…
Researcher – #Geospatial modelling of anti-malarial resistance at University of Oxford, Tropical Medicine Oxford
Relevant PhD/DPhil (or close to completion) in applied statistics, #spatial epidemiology, mathematical biology/ecology etc
Apply by: 15-Feb-2024
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
PhD position (Antwerp, Belgium)
Quantitative health systems modelling in maternal health
with Lenka Beňová @pete_M_M Rachel Cassidy
at @SRHGroup_ITM
More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/phd-in-qu…