Andrew K. Githeko
Kenya Medical Research Institute
209 Papers
751 Citations
Andrew K. Githeko is an academic researcher from Kenya Medical Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anopheles gambiae & Malaria. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 176 publications. Previous affiliations of Andrew K. Githeko include Kenyatta University.
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Papers
Climate change and vector-borne diseases: a regional analysis.
TL;DR: The greatest effect of climate change on transmission is likely to be observed at the extremes of the range of temperatures at which transmission occurs, and climate change has far-reaching consequences and touches on all life-support systems.
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Climate Change and Human Health. Risks and Responses
Anthony J. McMichael,Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum,Carlos Corvalan,Kristie L. Ebi,Andrew K. Githeko,J. D. Scheraga,Alistair Woodward +6 more
- 25 Nov 2003
TL;DR: Climate change and human health: risks and responses updates this work — and opens new pathways through which to exam-ine the consequences the future climate may hold for the ecological systems that underpin the authors' health.
Association between climate variability and malaria epidemics in the East African highlands
TL;DR: The results suggest that there was a high spatial variation in the sensitivity of malaria outpatient number to climate fluctuations in the highlands, and that climate variability played an important role in initiating malaria epidemics in the East African highlands.
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Predicting malaria epidemics in the Kenyan highlands using climate data: a tool for decision makers.
Andrew K. Githeko,William Ndegwa +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that permissive climatic conditions in the normally cool highlands are required for the epidemics to occur and an association between rainfall and unusually high maximum temperatures and the number of inpatient malaria cases 3–4 months later is found.
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Africa Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
M. Boko,I. Niang,Anthony Nyong,A. Vogel,Andrew K. Githeko,M.A. Medany,Balgis Osman-Elasha,R. Tabo,Pius Z. Yanda +8 more
- 18 Apr 2018
TL;DR: The most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change, the vulnerability of natural and human environments, and the potential for response through adaptation is presented in this paper.
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