A big thank you to @lenkabenova.bsky.social, @pete-m-m.bsky.social and colleagues for organizing this great inaugural forum!
Pete Macharia, PhD
@pete-m-m.bsky.social
GIS | Geospatial health | Spatial epidemiology | | Based @itmantwerp.bsky.social | Funded by @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social | Visiting Scientist @ KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme | https://www.petermacharia.com/
Our preprint, a scoping review on #geospatial approaches for mapping zero-dose (ZD) children in low- and lower-middle-income countries: Reaching ZD children will require better tools, local capacity, open and reproducible methods, and stronger partnerships. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9...
REACH-OUT@reachoutproject.bsky.social · 5mo ago𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧? 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭.
Do standardised metrics flatten urban realities? Read this new article, written by @grlurton.bsky.social, our Chief Data Officer: gh.bmj.com/content/11/3..., and co-authors @jilmolenaar.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @onykepe.bsky.social @pete-m-m.bsky.social.
The richness of urban health realities lost in measurement monocultures
The question seems simple enough: how can a rapidly growing African city improve the health and care of its pregnant women and their babies? But ask this question while navigating the humid, traffic-c...
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𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬? 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: gh.bmj.com/content/11/3... Co-authored with @jilmolenaar.bsky.social, @lenkabenova.bsky.social , @seyeabimbola.bsky.social , @onykepe.bsky.social & @grlurton.bsky.social illustration by Namrata Narendra.
#𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 📍 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐩, 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐮𝐦: @srhgroup-itm.bsky.social at @itmantwerp.bsky.social ► #Geospatial and data analysis for #mapping #spatial inequalities. ► MSc in geospatial, epi, etc. ► Experience in #healthgeography Apply: www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-... #GIS #rspatial #rstats
Research Assistant Geospatial
The Department of Public Health of the Institute of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) conducts public health research of international st...
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Methods for modelling composite indices of access to healthcare facilities: a systematic literature review led by @halolemoses.bsky.social How we measure access to healthcare shapes how we fix it. Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @itmantwerp.bsky.social #GISChat #GeoHealth
Methods for modelling composite indices of access to healthcare facilities: a systematic literature review - Population Health Metrics
Background Access to quality healthcare services is key to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The multidimensional nature of access (availability, accessibility, accommodation, affordability a...
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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 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1... @itmantwerp.bsky.social #GISChat #GeoHealth
Big data in modelling geographical accessibility to healthcare: a scoping review protocol
Introduction Research on modelling geographical accessibility to healthcare services has witnessed rapid methodological advancement and refinement. One of the contributing factors is the increasing av...
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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 www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7... @itmantwerp.bsky.social
Not all cities are the same: different tales of maternal health indicators in 62 sub-Saharan African conurbations
Background: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the majority of global maternal and perinatal deaths. Maternal healthcare service provision in SSA cities is not commensurate with the region's fastes...
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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 @itmantwerp.bsky.social 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. See our recent article in @africa.theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-far-is-y...
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.
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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 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...
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...
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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 geods.ac.uk/2025/03/19/f... #GISchat #GeoSky #GeoHealth
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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#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 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
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’...
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𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗴𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝗿𝗸: In this commentary, we draw attention to the consequence of suspending USAID funding to the Demographic and Health Surveys www.itg.be/en/health-st... @jilmolenaar.bsky.social @m-mariealice.bsky.social @alichristou.bsky.social @wongkerry.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social
When health data go dark
A call to restore DHS Program funding
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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...
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
Petermacharia | Spatial analysis | GIS | Kenya
Petermacharia has an interest in GIS, Mapping, Spatial analysis, spatial access to healthcare and disease mapping.
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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 go.bsky.app/RPmVXKK
"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." www.itg.be/fr/histoires... www.itg.be/en/health-st...
Mapping Lubumbashi’s maternal healthcare services
Recently, health system managers & stakeholders provided input on preliminary maps of maternal & newborn healthcare facilities in Lubumbashi
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