A5018414606- Data Quality and Management
- Research Data Management Practices
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Immune responses and vaccinations
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Medical Coding and Health Information
- Immunodeficiency and Autoimmune Disorders
- Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Religion, Society, and Development
- Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
2014-2024
University of London
2024
University of Michigan
2023
Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit
2021
National Institute for Medical Research
2014-2017
University of Limpopo
2010
Background Schistosomiasis affects 218 million people worldwide, with most infections in Africa. Prevalence studies suggest that chronic schistosomiasis may have higher risk of HIV-1 acquisition and impaired ability to control replication once infected. We hypothesized that: (1) pre-existing schistosome infection increase the odds effects differ between men women, (2) individuals active at time immune HIV-1, resulting viral loads seroconversion. Methodology/Principal findings conducted a...
The Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA Network, http://alpha.lshtm.ac.uk/) brings together ten population-based HIV surveillance sites in eastern and southern Africa, is coordinated by the London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).It was established 2005 aims to (i) broaden evidence base epidemiology informing policy, (ii) strengthen analytical capacity research, (iii) foster collaboration between network members.All study sites, some...
Mortality data are frequently presented at the overall population level, possibly obscuring small-scale variations over time and space between different sub-groups.Analysis of mortality from Dikgale Health Demographic Surveillance System, in rural South Africa, period 1996-2007, to identify local clustering among eight villages observed population.Mortality person-time observation were collected annually an open-cohort approximately 8,000 people 12 years. Poisson regression modelling...
Introduction Population health data integration remains a critical challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), hindering the generation of actionable insights to inform policy decision-making. This paper proposes pan-African, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable (FAIR) research architecture infrastructure named INSPIRE datahub. cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) on-premises setup aims enhance discovery, integration, analysis clinical, population-based surveys, other...
BackgroundThe Tanzanian national HIV care and treatment programme has provided free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive persons since 2004. ART been available participants of the Kisesa open cohort study 2005, but data 2007 showed a slow uptake modest impact on mortality. Additional from 2010 serological survey provide an opportunity update estimated in this setting.MethodsThe Health Demographic Surveillance Site (HDSS) collected demographic data, including verbal autopsy (VA)...
IntroductionSpectrum epidemiological models are used by UNAIDS to provide global, regional and national HIV estimates projections, which then for evidence-based health planning services. However, there no validations of the Spectrum model against empirical serological mortality data from populations in sub-Saharan Africa.MethodsSerologic, demographic verbal autopsy have been regularly collected among over 30,000 residents north-western Tanzania since 1994. Five-year age-specific rates...
Background Metadata describe and provide context for other data, playing a pivotal role in enabling findability, accessibility, interoperability, reusability (FAIR) data principles. By providing comprehensive machine-readable descriptions of digital resources, metadata empower both machines human users to seamlessly discover, access, integrate, reuse or content across diverse platforms applications. However, the limited accessibility machine-interpretability existing population health hinder...
Data from a cross-sectional survey on non-communicable diseases and their risk factors carried out between 2013 2017 in one rural urban site Malawi by the Epidemiology Intervention Research Unit (MEIRU). also include some anthropometric measures laboratory test results, self-report data relating to socio-economic status.
This paper provides insight into how restricted data can be incorporated in an open-be-default-by-design digital infrastructure for scientific data. We focus, particular, on the ethical component of FAIRER (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Ethical, and Reproducible) data, pseudo-anonymization anonymization COVID-19 datasets to protect personally identifiable information (PII). First we consider need customisation existing privacy preservation techniques context rapid production,...
Wellcome commissioned research to evaluate how forum partners could make datasets easier for potiential users discover and re-use.
Open-access for existing LMIC demographic surveillance data using DDI
Data anonymization and sharing have become popular topics for individuals, organizations, countries worldwide. Open-access of anonymized data containing sensitive information about individuals makes the most sense whenever utility can be preserved risk disclosure kept below acceptable levels. In this case, researchers use without access restrictions limitations.This study aimed to highlight requirements possible solutions health surveillance event history data. The challenges lie in multiple...
<ns3:p>Here we describe a dataset from cross-sectional survey carried out by the Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit, to burden determinants of hypertension, diabetes lipid disorders in rural urban Malawi. Data were collected between May 2013 April 2017 through face-to-face data capture participant’s homes Karonga district northern (n=13,904) Area 25 capital Lilongwe central region (n=16,660). included sections on demographic data, marital status spouse information, household...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Metadata describe and provide context for other data, playing a pivotal role in enabling findability, accessibility, interoperability, reusability (FAIR) data principles. By providing comprehensive machine-readable descriptions of digital resources, metadata empower both machines human users to seamlessly discover, access, integrate, reuse or content across diverse platforms applications. However, the limited accessibility machine-interpretability existing...
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