Scientific Journalism

2 July 2025

How far is your closest hospital or clinic?

Macharia PM, Okiro E in The Conversation Africa

5 September 2024

The power of putting Lubumbashi’s maternal healthcare services on the map

Interview Institute of Tropical Medicine

23 June 2025

Will Gates and other funders save massive public health database at risk from Trump cuts?

Interview with Mariana Lenharo, Nature Magazine

26 June 2023

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

Macharia PM, Pembe AB, Hanson C, Benova L

18 June 2025

Where you live could save—or cost—your life

Interview with Institute of Tropical Medicine

5 May 2021

Rich insights into child survival in Kenya by mapping patterns over 22 years

Macharia PM, Okiro E in The Conversation Africa

12 June 2025

Jil Molenaar & Peter Macharia Discuss the Future of DHS Program Data Access

Interview with Global Health Otherwise

5 November 2020

The ‘science of where’, or GIS, fortified Kenya’s response to COVID-19

Macharia PM in the Conversation Africa

11 June 2025

Regional Social and Epidemiological Vulnerability to COVID-19 in Kenya

Policy Brief

17 February 2019

What mapping Kenya’s child deaths for 50 years revealed

Macharia PM, Okiro E in The Conversation Africa

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