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David Obor
Affiliation : Kenya Medical Research Institute · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 39Publications (affiliation in Kenya)
Research profile
David Obor has 39 indexed publications (2010–2026). Their work appears mainly in “JMIR mhealth and uhealth”, “BMJ Global Health” and “Global Health Action”. Their most cited article, “The Impact of Wearable Technologies in Health Research: Scoping Review” (2022), has been cited 379 times. 5 of these publications date from the last three years of activity. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in United States, United Kingdom, Ghana, Switzerland.
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- Individual and population-level risk factors for new HIV infections among adults in Eastern and Southern Africa
- Assessing heat exposure and its effects on farmer health, harvest yields, and nutrition: a study protocol for Burkina Faso and Kenya
- Assessment of Heat Exposure and Health Outcomes in Rural Populations of Western Kenya by Using Wearable Devices: Observational Case Study
- “He’ll come with some sugar.” A qualitative study exploring the drivers and consequences of schoolgirls transactional sex behaviours
- The effects of climatic and non-climatic factors on malaria mortality at different spatial scales in western Kenya, 2008–2019
- Malaria, climate variability, and interventions: modelling transmission dynamics
- The relative effect of climate variability on malaria incidence after scale-up of interventions in western Kenya: A time-series analysis of monthly incidence data from 2008 to 2019
- Menstrual cups and cash transfer to reduce sexual and reproductive harm and school dropout in adolescent schoolgirls in western Kenya: a cluster randomised controlled trial
- Widening the lens of population-based health research to climate change impacts and adaptation: the climate change and health evaluation and response system (CHEERS)
- Public health determinants of child malaria mortality: a surveillance study within Siaya County, Western Kenya
- Drivers of Decline in Diarrhea Mortality Between GEMS and VIDA Studies
- The Impact of Wearable Technologies in Health Research: Scoping Review
- Impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on adolescent pregnancy and school dropout among secondary schoolgirls in Kenya
- Wearables for Measuring Health Effects of Climate Change–Induced Weather Extremes: Scoping Review
- Cost-Effectiveness and Cost–Benefit Analyses of Providing Menstrual Cups and Sanitary Pads to Schoolgirls in Rural Kenya
- ‘You don’t have to sleep with a man to get how to survive’: Girl’s perceptions of an intervention study aimed at improving sexual and reproductive health and schooling outcomes
- Feasibility, acceptability and validation of wearable devices for climate change and health research in the low-resource contexts of Burkina Faso and Kenya: Study protocol
- Impact of mobile phone delivered reminders and unconditional incentives on measles-containing vaccine timeliness and coverage: a randomised controlled trial in western Kenya
- Factors associated with the prevalence of HIV, HSV-2, pregnancy, and reported sexual activity among adolescent girls in rural western Kenya: A cross-sectional analysis of baseline data in a cluster randomized controlled trial
- Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems Within the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network
- Menstrual cups and cash transfer to reduce sexual and reproductive harm and school dropout in adolescent schoolgirls: study protocol of a cluster-randomised controlled trial in western Kenya
- Comparing use and acceptability of menstrual cups and sanitary pads by schoolgirls in rural Western Kenya
- Decreased HIV-associated mortality rates during scale-up of antiretroviral therapy, 2011–2016
- Community-based intermittent mass testing and treatment for malaria in an area of high transmission intensity, western Kenya: development of study site infrastructure and lessons learned
- HIV incidence in western Kenya during scale-up of antiretroviral therapy and voluntary medical male circumcision: a population-based cohort analysis
- Use of menstrual cups among school girls: longitudinal observations nested in a randomised controlled feasibility study in rural western Kenya
- Do Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conditions in Primary Schools Consistently Support Schoolgirls’ Menstrual Needs? A Longitudinal Study in Rural Western Kenya
- Association between internal migration and epidemic dynamics: an analysis of cause-specific mortality in Kenya and South Africa using health and demographic surveillance data
- Uptake of skilled attendance along the continuum of care in rural Western Kenya: selected analysis from Global Health initiative survey-2012
- Maternal influenza vaccine strategies in Kenya: Which approach would have the greatest impact on disease burden in pregnant women and young infants?
- The Mobile Solutions for Immunization (M-SIMU) Trial: A Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial That Assesses the Impact of Mobile Phone Delivered Reminders and Travel Subsidies to Improve Childhood Immunization Coverage Rates and Timeliness in Western Kenya
- Individual level determinants for not receiving immunization, receiving immunization with delay, and being severely underimmunized among rural western Kenyan children
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Conditions in Kenyan Rural Schools: Are Schools Meeting the Needs of Menstruating Girls?
- Mortality from external causes in Africa and Asia: evidence from INDEPTH Health and Demographic Surveillance System Sites
- Health Care-Seeking Behavior During Childhood Diarrheal Illness: Results of Health Care Utilization and Attitudes Surveys of Caretakers in Western Kenya, 2007–2010
- Profile: The KEMRI/CDC Health and Demographic Surveillance System--Western Kenya
- The feasibility of using mobile-phone based SMS reminders and conditional cash transfers to improve timely immunization in rural Kenya
- A Reversal in Reductions of Child Mortality in Western Kenya, 2003–2009
- Mortality and health among internally displaced persons in western Kenya following post-election violence, 2008: novel use of demographic surveillance
Publication venues
- JMIR mhealth and uhealth × 3
- BMJ Global Health × 3
- Global Health Action × 2
- Malaria Journal × 2
- Clinical Infectious Diseases × 2
- PLoS ONE × 2
Publications per year
- 20261
- 20251
- 20243
- 20236
- 20225
- 20213
- 20195
- 20185
- 20171
- 20161
Collaborations
Partner institutions : Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine · Ministry of Health · Center for Global Health · Indepth Network · African Population and Health Research Center
Co-authors’ countries : United States · United Kingdom · Ghana · Switzerland
Co-authors
- Elizabeth Nyothach
- Daniel Kwaro
- Stephen Munga
- Frank Odhiambo
- Kayla F. Laserson
- Emily Kerubo
- Bryan O. Nyawanda
- Isaac Ngere
- Maquins Odhiambo Sewe
- Emily Zielinski-Gutiérrez
- Sammy Khagayi
- Eunice Fwaya
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