Publications

Selected publications where I am first or last author, together with papers led by my PhD students. A complete list, including co-authored and consortium work, is on Google Scholar.

Prevalence and molecular characterisation of Giardia spp. and Cryptosporidium spp. at the wildlife-livestock interface in Laikipia, Kenya

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 30, 101263 (2026)

Links: DOI | ScienceDirect

Modelling established and emerging crime hotspots in a period of rapid homicide growth using spatio-temporal Hawkes processes

CrimRxiv preprint (2026)

Decoupling Distance and Networks: Hybrid Graph Attention-Geostatistical Methods for Spatio-temporal Risk Mapping

arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08393 (2026)

Links: arXiv

Disentangling spatial interference and spatial confounding biases in causal inference

arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02777 (2026)

Links: arXiv

Co-morbidity of malaria and soil-transmitted helminths in Nigeria: a joint Bayesian modelling approach

Infectious Diseases of Poverty 14(1):28 (2025)

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Epidemiological and phylogenetic analyses of public SARS-CoV-2 data from Malawi

PLOS Global Public Health (2025)

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Spatiotemporal Analysis of COVID-19 Risk in Malawi: The Impact of Age, Poverty, Population Density, and Environmental Factors

medRxiv preprint (2025)

Links: medRxiv

Understanding and overcoming geographical barriers for scaling up dog vaccinations against rabies

Scientific Reports 14, 30975 (2024)

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Accounting for Multiple Covariates in Non-Stationary Geostatistical Modelling

arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09225 (2024)

Links: arXiv

Spatial variation and inequities in antenatal care coverage in Kenya, Uganda and mainland Tanzania using model-based geostatistics: a socioeconomic and geographical accessibility lens

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 22:908 (2022)

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Geostatistical modelling enables efficient safety assessment for mass drug administration with ivermectin in Loa loa endemic areas through a combined antibody and LoaScope testing strategy for elimination of onchocerciasis

PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 16(2):e0010189 (2022)

Links: Publisher (DOI) · Open Access (PMC)

MBGapp: A Shiny application for teaching model-based geostatistics to population health scientists

PLOS ONE 16(12):e0262145

Authors: Olatunji Johnson; Claudio Fronterre; Peter J. Diggle; Benjamin Amoah; Emanuele Giorgi
Journal: PLOS ONE, 16(12):e0262145 (2021)

Model-Based Geostatistical Methods Enable Efficient Design and Analysis of Prevalence Surveys for Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection and Other Neglected Tropical Diseases

Clinical Infectious Diseases 72(Suppl 3):S172–S179

Authors: Olatunji Johnson; Claudio Fronterre; Benjamin Amoah; Antonio Montresor; Emanuele Giorgi; Nicholas Midzi; Masceline J. Mutsaka-Makuvaza; Ibrahim Kargbo-Labor; Mary…

Rethinking neglected tropical disease prevalence survey design and analysis: a geospatial paradigm

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 115(3):208–210 (2021)

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A modelling framework for developing early warning systems of COPD emergency admissions

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 36:100392 (2021)

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Dealing with spatial misalignment to model the relationship between deprivation and life expectancy: a model-based geostatistical approach

International Journal of Health Geographics 19(1):6 (2020)

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A spatially discrete approximation to log-Gaussian Cox processes for modelling aggregated disease count data

Statistics in Medicine 38(24):4871–4887 (2019)

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