Data Science Program: Recent submissions
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Data Law Companion: Enhancing Data Protection Law Compliance in the Digital Age
(Data Science Journal, 2024)The rapid expansion and use of digital data in the era of generative Artificial Intelligence raises significant challenges in legal compliance and ethical data handling. The DataLawCompanion (DLC) emerges as a pivotal tool, ... -
Widening Geographic Range of Rift Valley Fever Disease Clusters Associated With Climate Change in East Africa
(BMJ Global HealthResearchGate, 2024)Recent epidemiology of Rift Valley fever (RVF) disease in Africa suggests growing frequency and expanding geographic range of small disease clusters in regions that previously had not reported the disease. We investigated ... -
INSPIRE Datahub: A Pan-African Integrated Suite of Services for Harmonising Longitudinal Population Health Data Using OHDSI Tools
(Frontiers in Digital Health, 2024)Population health data integration remains a critical challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), hindering the generation of actionable insights to inform policy and decision-making. This paper proposes a ... -
Sex-Disaggregated Data Matters: Tracking the Impact of COVID-19 on the Health of Women and Men.
(National Library of MedicineSpringerLink, 2022)Sex and gender matter to health outcomes, but despite repeated commitments to sex-disaggregate data in health policies and programmes, a persistent and substantial absence of such data remains especially in lower-income ... -
Adaptations to HIV Services Delivery Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in Kampala, Uganda: A Qualitative Study.
(National Library of MedicinePLOS, 2022)The enforcement of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic restrictions disrupted health services delivery and currently, there is a limited understanding regarding measures employed by health facilities to ensure ... -
Encouraging Social Innovation for Combating Poverty: Master’s Students’ Gendered Experiences With a Service-Learning Intervention in Kenya and Uganda
(Semantic ScholerResearchGate, 2022)This study aims to understand masters students experiences of service-learning, following their participation in a workshop with local social innovators whose activities had contributed to combating poverty in East Africa ... -
A Call for Citizen Science in Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Beyond Data Collection
(National Library of MedicineBMJ Global Health, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management. Citizen science, ... -
Determinants of Contraceptive Use Among Women 0–23 Months Postpartum in Kitui County, Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Study
(National Library of MedicinePLOS, 2022)The risk of unintended pregnancy is high in the postpartum period, especially during the first year of delivery. Yet, short birth intervals are associated with increased risk of adverse maternal and infant outcomes. In ... -
Use of A Context-Specific Package to Increase Sputum Smear Monitoring Among People with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Uganda: A Quality Improvement Study
(National library of medicineResearchGateEurope PMC, 2023)People with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis (BC-PTB) require sputum smear monitoring (SSM) to ascertain response to anti-TB treatment and cure from TB disease. We aimed to increase SSM at 2, 5 and 6 ... -
Experiences of Mothers and Health Workers with Momcare and Safecare Bundles in Kenya and Tanzania: A Qualitative Evaluation.
(National library of medicine, 2023)Between 2019 and 2022, the digital dividend project (DDP), a technology-based intervention that combined care (MomCare) and quality improvement (SafeCare) bundles to empower mothers to access quality care during pregnancy, ...
