Ouko Rehema

Dr. Ouko Rehema is a Doctoral Researcher in the Maternal and Sexual Reproductive Health Unit at the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium, affiliated with the UrbanBirth Collective project. Her work focuses on quantitative modeling of urban maternal health systems and geospatial analysis to address healthcare access disparities.

Education:

• Pre-doctoral Fellowship: Bayesian joint modeling of foetal growth, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2024)
• MSc in Statistics and Data Science (Biostatistics), Hasselt University (2022)
• MSc in Mathematical Sciences, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (2020)
• MPA in Public Administration, Peking University (2019)
• BSc in Applied Statistics with Computing, Maasai Mara University (2016)

Her research interests span maternal/newborn health, statistical methodologies, and spatial analysis for improving healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa. Recent work emphasizes system dynamics modeling and policy interventions in urban health systems.

Projects: Active contributor to the UrbanBirth Collective, analyzing urban maternal health systems through interdisciplinary approaches.