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...

The Department of Public Health of the Institute of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) conducts public health research of international st...

Background Access to quality healthcare services is key to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). The multidimensional nature of access (availability, accessibility, accommodation, affordability a...

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...

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...

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

Interview with Dr Peter Macharia, a spatial epidemiologist from Kenya

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...

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…

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’...

A call to restore DHS Program funding

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

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