How urbanization is managed will have long-lasting, irreversible impacts on the planet. blogs.worldbank.org/en/sustainable… via @worldbank

New read ~ Prof. Justine Blanford's (Faculty ITC | University of Twente) new book: #Geographic Information, #Geospatial Technologies and #Spatial Data Science for Health #health geography routledge.com/Geographic-Inf…

#PhD opportunity at The University of Edinburgh Background: #geography and #geosciences, computer/data sciences, ecology or social sciences Methodology: Use use of #GIS, Satellite #EO data, #rstats, Python, open-source #geospatial data etc Research questions What are the key services for

Looking forward to the 20th International Conference on Urban Health (#ICUH24 - ) hosted by ISUH in Marrakesh, 🇲🇦(November 18–21, 2024) . ◾I will present our ongoing work (Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp & École de Santé Publique of Université de Lubumbashi) where we monitor local hourly

A cross-sectional #geospatial analysis of access to cesarean delivery in #Uganda by facility functionality by Garba et al in ​​​​​​​​IJS Global Health ►3 levels of facility functionality: I - by designation (339 Hfs) ; II – ≥ 1 cs delivery/year (287 Hfs) ; III – ≥20 cs

Prevalence & determinants of double and triple burden of malnutrition among mother–child pairs in #Malawi: a #mapping and multilevel modelling study led by Jessie Khaki Sithole based on @DHSprogram data ►Although prevalence was low, it was more prevalent in pairs with women with no

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹-𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 #𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 SSA: UrbanBirth Collective (UBC) See our commentary launching the UBC, a portfolio of

#Geographic access to health care & #spatial inequalities Health #geography

𝗣𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗯-𝗦𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 Here is our (renewed) call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in SSA. Published in BMC Medicine -

Putting health facilities on the map: a renewed call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in sub-Saharan African countries bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

#ResearchHighlight from Peter Macharia Pete Macharia KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Putting health facilities on the map: a renewed call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed #dataset of health facilities 👉 ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi Publication 👉 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Effective healthcare planning in sub-Saharan Africa depends on updated, geocoded Health Facility Databases, yet many are outdated, incomplete, or inaccessible? Our📚#ResearchHighlight:Pete Macharia et al. explore this calling for open, harmonized HFDBs. 🔗: shorturl.at/DilFs

Inequities in #spatial access to childbirth care in the Grand Conakry conurbation, Guinea ► Newly published in Nature Cities, led by Fassou Mathias GROVOGUI ► Major disparities in #geographic access to facilities providing childbirth care ► Driven by the skewed #spatial

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐠𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐇𝐒 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 Published in BMC Medicine We highlight key impacts on ►Ongoing data collection & processing activities; ►Future data

Newly published: 𝐏𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬, led by moses musau in Frontiers - Public Health ►►Severe anaemia admissions had the highest median

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 #𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐤𝐨𝐮é 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚, 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧 Newly published medRxiv ►►Used

How far is your closest hospital or clinic? Public health researchers explain why Africa needs up-to-date health facility databases Co-authored with Emelda Okiro based on our recent article. theconversation.com/how-far-is-you… via The Conversation Africa Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp KEMRI-Wellcome

COVID-19 exposed gaps in health facility data—knowing where clinics and beds are could save lives. 🏥📊 theconversation.com/how-far-is-you… 💻 Peter M Macharia, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp and Emelda Okiro, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme #HealthAndMedicine