6 papers
Copula and spatial-regularized variational autoencoder for mapping disease comorbidity in West Africa
Osafu Augustine Egbon, Bassey David Ita, Faith Eshofonie +1
Geospatial health disproportionality remains a critical public health concern, as communities face heterogeneous illness risks due to varying exposures to adverse socioeconomic and…
Decoupling Distance and Networks: Hybrid Graph Attention-Geostatistical Methods for Spatio-temporal Risk Mapping
Toba Temitope Bamidele, Ezra Gayawan, Femi Barnabas Adebola +1
Accurate spatial prediction and rigorous uncertainty quantification are central to modern spatial epidemiology and environmental risk analysis. We introduce a statistically princip…
Violent event-related fatality patterns in Ethiopia: a Bayesian spatiotemporal perspective
Osafu Augustine Egbon, Asrat Mekonnen Belachew, Ezra Gayawan +1
Fatalities resulting from violence in armed conflict have long been a significant public health issue in Ethiopia. Despite the severity of this problem, more comprehensive quantita…
The impact of Women's empowerment on childhood vaccination coverage in Nigeria: a spatio-temporal analysis
Ezra Gayawan, Osafu Augustine Egbon, Edson Utazi +2
Immunization remains one of the most effective public health interventions, substantially reducing childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. Yet, gender disparity and women's di…
Accounting for Multiple Covariates in Non-Stationary Geostatistical Modelling
Olatunji Johnson, Bedilu A Ejigu, Ezra Gayawan
Model-based geostatistics (MBG) is a subfield of spatial statistics focused on predicting spatially continuous phenomena using data collected at discrete locations. Geostatistical…
Mathematical modelling to inform outbreak response vaccination
Manjari Shankar, Anna-Maria Hartner, Callum R. K. Arnold +11
Mathematical models are established tools to assist in outbreak response. They help characterise complex patterns in disease spread, simulate control options to assist public healt…