Pete Macharia, PhD

Big data in modelling #geographical accessibility to healthcare: a scoping review protocol

Big data is transforming how we understand #spatial access to services (closer-to-reality estimates). We are cataloguing these

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Not all cities are the same: different tales of maternal health indicators in 62 SSA conurbations (pre-print)

Coverage indicators on utilisation, content & continuity of care for maternal & newborn care

A typology of performance

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Modelling geographical accessibility & inequalities to childbirth services in the Grand Nokoué Metropolitan Area, Benin

Access varied by wealth, urbanicity, & travel speed

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Read our new paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#gischat #geospatial #GeoHealth #HealthEquity

How far is your closest hospital or clinic? Public health researchers explain why Africa needs up-to-date health facility databases Health lists support informed decision-making to enhance the delivery of services at various levels.

How far is your closest hospital or clinic? Public health researchers explain why Africa needs up-to-date health facility databases.

See our recent article in @africa.theconversation.com

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Where you live could save—or cost—your life Interview with Dr Peter Macharia, a spatial epidemiologist from Kenya

Health and place – my journey

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#GeospatialHealth #GISchat #geosky

Published: 𝐏𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬, led by @halolemoses.bsky.social

Travel time associated with the severity of anaemia presentation at admission

#gischat #geospatial #GeoHealth #HealthEquity

Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fepi...

When health data go dark: the importance of the DHS Program and imagining its future - BMC Medicine Background The suspension and/or termination of many programmes funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) by the new US administration has severe short- and long-te...

When health data go dark: the importance of the DHS Program and imagining its future

We discuss;

Consequences on the tracking of population health outcomes & behaviours.

Implications for national decision-makers & the global health community

Potential paths forward

doi.org/10.1186/s129...

Inequities in #spatial access to childbirth care in Conakry, Guinea. Published in Nature Cities

► Disparities in #geographic access to facilities providing childbirth care

► Driven by skewed spatial distribution of facilities, heavy traffic & socio-economic disadvantage

doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Fully Funded PhD Studentships in Spatial Data Science or Geographic Information Science About the PhD studentships We invite applications for two funded PhD studentships situated on topics that sit at the intersection of geographic information science and the creation of groundbreakin…

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Peter Macharia

#ResearchHighlight from Peter Macharia, KWTRP

Putting health facilities on the map: a renewed call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed #dataset of health facilities

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Publication 👉 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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 - BMC Medicine Background Healthcare service provision, planning, and management depend on the availability of a geolocated, up-to-date, comprehensive health facility database (HFDB) to adequately meet a population’...

𝗣𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗯-𝗦𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

A (renewed) call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in SSA.

In #BMCMedicine! bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

#GISchat #GeoSky #GeoHealth, @itmantwerp.bsky.social

When health data go dark A call to restore DHS Program funding

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗴𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸: In this commentary, we draw attention to the consequence of suspending USAID funding to the Demographic and Health Surveys
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Panel plot. a) shows estimated coefficients from models with and without a spatial random field. NDVI is positive for both. LST is strong negative until you add a field. b) predicted rate of VL. High in the north of Bihar, India. c) The fitted random field. High in North Bihar as well.

Hooray! Our paper (led by Emily Nightingale) is out.

Inferring the regional distribution of Visceral Leishmaniasis incidence from data at different spatial scales.

w/ @grahammedley.bsky.social and others.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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Petermacharia | Spatial analysis | GIS | Kenya Petermacharia has an interest in GIS, Mapping, Spatial analysis, spatial access to healthcare and disease mapping.

Hi Bluesky. I am a #spatial epidemiologist: #rspatial, #geohealth, #gischat

I work on spatial health metrics for an improved understanding of maternal health disparities in urban SSA.

Eg., #geographic access, marginalisation, coverage & disease prevalence

Let's connect: www.petermacharia.com

Looking forward to the International Conference on Urban Health in Marrakesh (18-21/11/24)

◾I will present ongoing work where we monitor hourly temperature in >30 locations in Lubumbashi city

◾This includes measurement in delivery rooms & within the compound of health facilities

www.icuh2024.org

Curating a health #geography and #spatial epidemiology starter park

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Mapping Lubumbashi’s maternal healthcare services Recently, health system managers & stakeholders provided input on preliminary maps of maternal & newborn healthcare facilities in Lubumbashi

"This #map represents what I know": the power of putting Lubumbashi’s #maternal healthcare services on the map

"Keeping the maps accurate therefore requires a continuous effort, which is unlikely to happen without local ownership."

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