Space-time mapping of wasting among children under the age of five years in Somalia from 2007 to 2010.

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Published in Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol on January 09, 2016

Authors

Damaris K Kinyoki1, James A Berkley2, Grainne M Moloney3, Elijah O Odundo4, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala5, Abdisalan M Noor6

Author Affiliations

1: Spatial Health Metrics Group, INFORM Project, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi P.O. Box 43640-00100, Kenya. Electronic address: DKinyoki@kemri-wellcome.org.
2: Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research (coast), Kilifi, Kenya; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, CCVTM, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK. Electronic address: JBerkley@kemri-wellcome.org.
3: Nutrition Section, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Kenya Country Office, UN Complex Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address: gmmoloney@unicef.org.
4: Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) - Somalia, United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, Ngecha Road Campus, Nairobi, Kenya . Electronic address: Elijah.Odundo@fao.org.
5: Warwick Medical School, Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Warwick, Warwick Evidence, Gibbet Hill, CV4 7AL Coventry, UK; Department of Mathematics and Information sciences Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK; Health Economics and Evidence Synthesis Research Unit, Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health L-1445 Strassen, Luxembourg. Electronic address: N-B.Kandala@warwick.ac.uk.
6: Spatial Health Metrics Group, INFORM Project, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi P.O. Box 43640-00100, Kenya; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, CCVTM, Oxford OX3 7LJ, UK. Electronic address: ANoor@kemri-wellcome.org.

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