
Lenka Beňová
@lenkabenova
Researching reproductive and maternal health @SRHgroup_ITM (@ITMantwerp) and Honorary @LSHTM
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#Geographical accessibility & inequalities in access to childbirth care in the Grand Conakry metropolitan area, #Guinea: a #spatial modelling study led by @DrFassou Our new pre-print, collaboration between Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp & CEA-PCMT Guinée 👉Coverage was 100% within 30-minutes of any




📊 How is big data transforming healthcare? Pete Macharia takes us into the world of geospatial data and shows how it helps to direct resources to where they’re most needed. Curious? See how big data is shaping better health systems for everyone. 💪🏥 #geospatialdata

We launched the UrbanBirth Collective Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp! Working with teams & cities in Benin, DRC and Guinea, our mission is to conduct impactful, context-specific research that addresses the complex issues of maternal and newborn health in urban settings. 💫 urbanbirthcollective.org


UBEL PhD studentships available in Demography at UCL UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies & LSHTM for candidates with an interest in population and health related topics. Deadline for preliminary applications: December 2nd. More information here: ubel-dtp.ac.uk/populationheal…

Prevalence & determinants of double and triple burden of malnutrition among mother–child pairs in #Malawi: a #mapping and multilevel modelling study led by Jessie Khaki Sithole based on @DHSprogram data ►Although prevalence was low, it was more prevalent in pairs with women with no


Thank you Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp for the thoughtful surprise! And a special ❤️ for zero plastic!



Sanctions can devastate health systems, limiting access to lifesaving care and essential medicines. I had the privilege of speaking with Louisa Loveluck from the The Washington Post about the critical impact of sanctions on healthcare in Syria. It is time to prioritize people's health


Eliciting the Initial Programme Theory in a Realist Evaluation of Facility-Based Maternal Death Reviews in Benin: Methodological Process, Challenges and Lessons Learned 🔗Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16… Boyi Christelle Dossou Jean-Paul Lenka Beňová Bruno Marchal



‘‘Hoe Trump de stekker uit #globale #gezondheidszorg trok en waarom dat ons allemaal zou moeten verontrusten’’ Lenka Beňová Marie Alice Mosuse MO*magazine mo.be/opinie/hoe-tru…

𝗣𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗯-𝗦𝗮𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 Here is our (renewed) call to create geolocated, comprehensive, updated, openly licensed dataset of health facilities in SSA. Published in BMC Medicine -


Effective healthcare planning in sub-Saharan Africa depends on updated, geocoded Health Facility Databases, yet many are outdated, incomplete, or inaccessible? Our📚#ResearchHighlight:Pete Macharia et al. explore this calling for open, harmonized HFDBs. 🔗: shorturl.at/DilFs


Inequities in #spatial access to childbirth care in the Grand Conakry conurbation, Guinea ► Newly published in Nature Cities, led by Fassou Mathias GROVOGUI ► Major disparities in #geographic access to facilities providing childbirth care ► Driven by the skewed #spatial

