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Targeted allocation is critical to improving child survival equitably. As a first step, it requires an evaluation of child mortality, its determinants and their impacts.

Spatially varying relationships between birth registration and influencing factors in Kenya, using a suite of geographically weighted regressions

Robert BN, Macharia PM, Lessani MN, Chepkurui V, Kamau J, Snow RW, Li Z, Okiro EA | Science Direct 2025

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Geospatial approaches for mapping zero-dose prevalence and routine childhood immunisation coverage in low- and lower-middle-income countries: A scoping review

Njogu AM, Musau MM, Srivastava S, Menegale F, Clarke E, Mudereri C, Kitema FR, Opanga Y, Mmbando A, Gashaija A, Sibomana H, Condo J, Osei F, Beňová L, Blanford JI, Poletti P, Torbica T, Melegaro A, Federici C, Macharia PM | Science Direct

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Concordance of coverage estimates from routine and survey data of measles second dose vaccine in Western Kenya

Moturi AK, Musau MM, Muchiri SK, Macharia PM, Snow RW, Okiro EA. Frontiers

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Paediatric anaemia in rural Kenya and the role of travel time to emergency care services

Musau MM, Khazenzi C, Akech S, Omondi E, Okiro EA, Snow RW, Macharia PM, Kamau A. Frontiers

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Neonatal and perinatal mortality in the urban continuum: a geospatial analysis of the household survey, satellite imagery and travel time data in Tanzania

Macharia PM, Lenka Beňová, Jessie Pinchoff, Aline Semaan, Andrea B. Pembe, Aliki Christou, Claudia Hanson

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Investigating rapid diagnostic testing in Kenya’s health system, 2018–2020: validating non-reporting in routine data using a health facility service assessment survey

Angela K Moturi, Bibian N Robert, Felix Bahati, Macharia PM & Emelda A Okiro

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Progress towards achieving child survival goals in Kenya after devolution: Geospatial analysis with scenario-based projections, 2015–2025

Joseph NK, Macharia PM, Okiro EA . PLOS Glob Public Health, 2022

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Subnational estimates of factors associated with under-five mortality in Kenya: a spatio-temporal analysis, 1993-2014

Macharia PM, Joseph NK, Sartorius B, Snow RW, Okiro EA .BMJ Global Health, 2021

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The impact of child health interventions and risk factors on child survival in Kenya, 1993-2014: a Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis with counterfactual scenarios

Macharia PM, Joseph NK, Snow RW, Sartorius B, Okiro EA. BMC Medicine, 2021

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Spatial access inequities and childhood immunisation uptake in Kenya

Joseph NK, Macharia PM, Ouma PO, Mumo J, Jalang’o R, Wagacha PW, Achieng VO, Ndung'u E, Okoth P, Muñiz M, Yaniss G, Panciera R, Ray N, Okiro EA. BMC Public Health, 2020

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Determinants of subnational disparities in antenatal care utilization: a spatial analysis of demographic and health survey data in Kenya

Wairoto KG, Joseph NK, Macharia PM, Okiro EA . BMC Health Services Research, 2020

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Sub national variation and inequalities in under-five mortality in Kenya since 1965

Macharia PM, Giorgi E, Thuranira PN, Joseph NK, Sartorius B, Snow RW, Okiro EA . BMC Public Health, 2019

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Spatial models for the rational allocation of routinely distributed bed nets to public health facilities in Western Kenya

Macharia PM, Ouma PO, Odera PA, Snow RW, Noor AM . Malaria Journal, 2017

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Leveraging geospatial technologies and data to strengthen immunisation programmes: Rapid guidance for investment planning

Gachen C, Panciera, R, Muñiz M, Seaman V, Levy M, Kim-Blanco P, Snell J, Renn S, Ecker J, Tschirhart K, Riley C, Dufay E, Ebener S, Okiro E, Macharia PM, Ouma P, Diallo, M. S, Ray N, Akpan G, Petragallo S, Tatem A, Lazar, A, Boo G, Mechael P, Cunard C.S, 2021

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