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A map of poor livestock owners
This map (from “Mapping of poverty and likely zoonoses hotspots”) is pretty eye-opening. Looking at this, I’m thinking that the next big disease event will most certainly come out of India. Note that...
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Is malaria prevalence really declining?
Malaria study areas. Note the non presence of the DRC and Angola.. along with all of the other areas that are missing. Do we really know what’s going on with malaria?The development community (and the...
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US Bombing of Laos: 1965 -1973: I was there first
Actually, I was an infant, but as an adult, I wrote a blog post and made a cool video of the locations and magnitude of bomb drops in Laos from 1965-1973. Now, Jerry Redfern & Karen Coates have...
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The famous “aho/baka” map of Japan.
Japan, despite the refined image it traditionally likes to present to the world, has no shortage of words with which to call people stupid. These words are mostly regional and the uses and nuances of...
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(Mostly) Vindicated: Euclidean measures of distance are just as good as high...
In my seminal paper, “Distance to health services influences insecticide-treated net possession and use among six to 59 month-old children in Malawi,” I indicated that Euclidean (straight line)...
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The Jigger flea: a neglected scourge
Jigger infestation of the hands. I picked the least awful picture I could find. Note the deformity of the hands. This person has likely been suffering from infections since childhood.I just learned...
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Snake Bites in Kwale, Kenya: Into the Field
We just spent the day driving around Kwale looking for snakes, and/or people who had been bitten by snakes. As the last post showed, snakebites are a persistent problem along the Kenyan Coast, with...
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Kenya 2017 Election Violence: Some Data Analysis
I’m getting used to the new version of ArcGIS (which is a vast improvement!) and gave it a test run on some data from the ACLED (Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project) database, specifically...
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Mapmaking with ggmap
I am always looking for free alternatives to ArcGIS for making pretty maps. R is great for graphics and the new-to-me ggmap package is no exception. I’m working with some data from Botswana for a...
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New publication: Environmental and Household-Based Spatial Risks for...
New publication! I started working on this cool project on tungiasis (jiggers) with colleagues in Kenya and Japan way back in 2014. Today, I am happy to say that after much ado our work has finally...
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