Timothy Tuti
@timothytuti
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Postdoctoral Fellow @KEMRI_Wellcome｜Applied Researcher｜Digital Health Systems & Services Research | @AfrikanaScholar for my professional tweets
Oxford, UK | Nairobi, KE
Joined April 2009
The Bridging the Gap Hackathon 2025, is a 5-day event organized by the MRC Center for Global Infectious Diseases Analysis(MRC-GIDA) at Imperial College London, and the Center For Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (CEMA) at the University of Nairobi,
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10 years of making a difference! Today, the Clinical Information Network (CIN) celebrated 10 years of impactful work at the Stakeholders Dissemination Meeting. This event brought together paediatricians, nurse-in-charges, and HRIOs linked to CIN projects to reflect on a decade
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Once you realize p-values are probabilities relating to observing data rather than probabilities of an hypothesis being true, you are already doing significantly better than most people
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On not studying (and stating) the obvious -
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This blog questions current academic knowledge production in global health, providing published examples to illustrate the argument.
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Join us for a hybrid talk by @timothytuti on his research in designing and implementing a paper-to-digital info pipeline for clinical surveillance and service improvement. Networking lunch for in-person attendees! Register: https://t.co/yj4KVe3kIr
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There's just something wrong about the current climate change narrative (& politics) that expects LMICs to "pay the costs" and forego development because HICs obliterated the environment during industrialisation. #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction
WATCH‼️ President of Guyana slaps down arrogant BBC reporter. “You cannot lecture us on climate change, I will lecture YOU! …we have a forest the size of England and Scotland together that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon. …the world has destroyed 65% of its biodiversity —
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Kudos for the outstanding work by @AfriUncensored and @Odipodev, as always. I'd like to raise some methodological concerns for your consideration. First and foremost, let me begin with disclaimers—I am an avid admirer of Africa Uncensored's work and closely follow it. 1/n
Think that the recent murders of women are isolated incidents? Think again. @Odipodev @AfricaDatahub have got the data on the #SilencingWomen in Kenya here: https://t.co/Aph338aikK. Having covered too many murders, I know the data shows the reality. Here’s a short thread (and
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What Kenyans need is not financial literacy; it's economic literacy. Financial literacy is about how to spend money. Economic literacy is about the relationship between power, society and your ability to earn a living.
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If you torture the statistician long enough they will confess they still don't fully understand your research question
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All statisticians & data scientists training for healthcare research would benefit from dedicated time observing clinicians, GPs & health professionals make decisions & seeing the pathway involved Should be part of any MSc in med stats/health data science, & training fellowships
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For anyone who hadn't realized yet, there is a new link for the web calculator to perform prediction model development sample size calculations according to @Richard_D_Riley et al's method https://t.co/imNfupsRyS
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@laure_wynants Strange it seems to work for me. Using this link?
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"..Health insurance companies have rejected medical claims for as long as they’ve been around...AI is now driving their denials to new heights.." absolutely immoral! We ought to consider how to arrest this "innovation" path before it muddies #UHC landscape @EdwineBarasa....
"Behind the scenes, insurers are using unregulated predictive algorithms, under the guise of scientific rigor, to pinpoint the precise moment when they can plausibly cut off payment for an older patient’s treatment." Big and sad if true https://t.co/VaGMyCWql8
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We have opened a call for applications for emerging researchers to attend and present their work at the AI4D conference in June with a bursary for travel. More details: https://t.co/3wQ6PSvrd7
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The 2021 #NationalMPDSRreport showed that only 15% of perinatal deaths were audited and only 30 counties reported on KHIS. There is need for universal reporting and follow up of recommended actions at County and facility level. #LSTMinKenya @MOH_Kenya
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1/ More than anywhere else in the world, Africa's internet economy is mobile-first or mobile-only 75% of online traffic in Africa comes from mobile—the highest percentage worldwide Here are 3 implications for folks building for, investing in, or learning about African markets👇🏽
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.@UNAIDS chief @Winnie_Byanyima tells me that @wef #Davos proposing a #metaverse to tackle global challenges is “an insult to ordinary people who are suffering.” On tax, debt & climate she says “These are things where we want political will. We are not short of the technology.”
World Economic Forum Establishes Purpose-driven Metaverse to Tackle World’s Most Pressing Challenges
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