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Hospitals in Africa. Flickr

July 8, 2025

Accès aux soins en Afrique : pourquoi cartographier les établissements de santé peut sauver des vies

Peter M Macharia, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp and Emelda Okiro, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme

Etablir une liste des établissements de santé permet de prendre des décisions éclairées pour améliorer la prestation des services à tous les niveaux.

Masaika Clinic in Tanzania. Flickr

July 2, 2025

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

Peter M Macharia, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp and Emelda Okiro, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme

Health lists support informed decision-making to enhance the delivery of services at various levels.

A newborn baby holds a father’s finger. Getty Images

June 26, 2023

Baby deaths in Tanzania: being born in a city no longer increases their chances of survival

Peter M Macharia, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme; Andrea Barnabas Pembe, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences; Claudia Hanson, Karolinska Institutet, and Lenka Benova, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

Urban populations are diverse, and certain neighbourhoods or subgroups may be disproportionately affected by poor birth outcomes.

A community health worker attends to a baby during a free mother and child clinic for the public. Photo by Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images

May 5, 2021

We gathered rich insights into child survival in Kenya by mapping patterns over 22 years

Peter M Macharia, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme and Emelda Okiro, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme

Our findings provide an additional tool for determining what to prioritise, where to target and when to intervene.

Spatial applications show where the COVID-19 vulnerable populations and active cases are, where to find care, and where there are resource gaps. Bushko Oleksandr/Shutterstock

November 5, 2020

The ‘science of where’, or GIS, fortified Kenya’s response to COVID‑19. Here’s how

Peter M Macharia, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme

There are a lot of opportunities in applying geospatial information system to aid COVID-19 response and other outbreaks.

In 50 years, Kenya has experienced an overall decline in under 5 mortality. Shutterstock

February 17, 2019

What mapping Kenya’s child deaths for 50 years revealed – and why it matters

Peter M Macharia, Kenya Medical Research Institute and Emelda Okiro, Kenya Medical Research Institute

Only half of Kenya’s 47 counties achieved the 2000 goal on reducing child mortality

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