iSchool Capstone

Kenya and Maternal Health: Delivering Results

Project tags:

data science & visualization

This project aims to provide assistance to the Health Systems - Maternal Mortality Rates and Drivers (HS-MMRD) team at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) on the creation of a health facility classification and healthcare personnel mapping, for use on investigating why maternal mortality ratios have not decreased, despite an increase of deliveries in health facilities. A public interest article was written for the Think Global Health (TGH) website, which illustrates barriers to accessing maternal healthcare in Kenya, and includes an infographic of differences in travel times to birthing facilities for patients in urban versus rural areas.

Project participants:

Erica Yuen

MLIS