Research

Publications in Economics

Managing the spread of disease with mobile phone data

Journal of Development Economics (2020)

Predicting Dynamic Patterns of Short-Term Movement

World Bank Economic Review (2019).

Effects of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Costs on Social Security Taxable Wages

With Gary Burtless

Soc. Sec. Bull. 73 (2013): 83.

Report: Innovations in US Infrastructure Financing: An Evaluation

With Barry Bosworth

Washington, Brookings (2011)

Publications in Health

Fall injuries in Sub-Saharan Africa: analysis of prospective injury registry from 23 health facilities in Malawi and Tanzania

With Hendry R. Sawe, Wakisa Mulwafu, Linda Chokotho, Kevin Croke, Rachel Chamanga, Meyhar Mohammed, Jonna Bertfelt, Harrieth P. Ndumwa, and Juma A. Mfinanga

BMC emergency medicine 23, no. 1 (2023): 42.

The importance of Maintenance: Geospatial Analysis of Cholera Risk and Water and Sanitation Infrastructure in Harare, Zimbabwe

With Joseph, George, Hugh Riddell, Faith Maidei Kashangura, Sophie Ayling and Yi Rong Hoo

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. (2023).

Epidemiology of adult trauma injuries in Malawi: Results from a Multi-site Trauma Registry

With Croke, Kevin, Linda Chokotho, Jonna Bertfelt, Saahil Karpe, Meyhar Mohammed, and Wakisa Mulwafu

Injury Epidemiology. 9.1 (2022).

Paediatric Trauma Burden in Tanzania: Analysis of Prospective Registry Data from Thirteen Health Facilities

With Hendry R. Sawe, Kevin Croke, Saahil Karpe, and Juma A. Mfinanga

Injury Epidemiology. 9.1 (2022).

Burden of road traffic injuries in Tanzania: one-year prospective study of consecutive patients in 13 multilevel health facilities

With Hendry R. Sawe, Kevin Croke, Saahil Karpe, Meyhar Mohammed, and Juma A. Mfinanga

Emergency medicine international, 2021.

Implementation of a multi-centre digital trauma registry: Experience in district and central hospitals in Malawi

With Kevin Croke, Linda Chokotho, Jonna Bertfelt, Saahil Karpe, Meyhar Mohammed, and Wakisa Mulwafu

The International Journal of Health Management and Planning (2020)

Publications in Data Science

Scale matters: Variations in spatial and temporal patterns of epidemic outbreaks in agent-based models

With Sarah Wise, Sophie Ayling, and Robert Manning Smith

Journal of Computational Science 69 (2023): 101999.

The importance of Scaling for an Agent Based Model: an illustrative case study with COVID-19 in Zimbabwe

With Sarah Wise and Sophie Ayling

International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS). 2022.

Challenges and opportunities in accessing mobile phone data for COVID-19 response in developing countries.”

With Anat Lewin, Tania Begazo Gomez, Dunstan Matekenya, and Kyla Reid

Data & Policy, (2021) 3.

Assessing Bias in Smartphone Mobility Estimates in Low Income Countries

With Daniel Bjorkegren, and Leonardo Viotti

ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies. 2021.

Applying machine learning and geolocation techniques to social media data (Twitter) to develop a resource for urban planning

With Robert Marty, Guadalupe Bedoya, Elizabeth Resor, Sarah Williams and Arianna Legovini

PloS One (2021)

Working Papers

The Unintended Consequences of Curfews on Road Safety

With Guadalupe Bedoya, Amy Dolinger, Caitlin Dolkart, Arianna Legovini, Robert Marty, and Peter Taniform

Conscientiousness and Labor Market Returns: Evidence from a Field Experiment in West Africa

With Mathias Allemand, Martina Kirchberger, Carol Newman, Brent Roberts, and Vincent Thorne

Estimating spatially disaggregated probability of severe COVID-19 and the impact of handwashing interventions

With George Joseph, Hugh Sturrock, Tonderai Mapoko, Sophie Charlotte Amy Ayling, and Yi Rong Hoo

Climate Anomalies and International Migration: A Disaggregated Analysis for West Africa (link to latest version)

With Fernanda Martinez Flores and Arndt R. Reichert

Understanding the Relationship Between Short Term Mobility and Long Term Migration Patterns

With Elisabeth zu Erbach-Schoenberg, Linus Bengtsson Erik Wetter, Andy Tatem

Household recombination, retrospective evaluation, and educational mobility over 40 years

With Andrew Foster

Long-Term Effects of the Matlab Maternal and Child Health and Family Planning Program on Cohort Survival and Health

With Jane Menken, Randall Kuhn, Patrick S. Turner, Tania Barham, Abdur Razzaque, Elisabeth Dowling Root, Andrew Foster, Warren Jochem, Gisella Kagy, Nobuko Mizoguchi