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Matlhogonolo Kelepile

PhD, Michigan State University, 2019

Healthcare and Medical Geography

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Matlhogonolo Kelepile

Dr. Kelepile is a Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Botswana. She is a health and medical geographer who uses GIS and spatial epidemiological techniques to examine the complex interplay between disease, population and the environment. Her research areas are HIV/AIDS, Antiretroviral therapies adherence, Spatial Epidemiology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Health Services Research, PMTCT, and COVID-19. She uses new theoretical perspectives to investigate how environmental change and uncertainties are understood and experienced by individuals and communities, across scales from the household to the nation. In 2022, Dr. Kelepile became an Associate Editor (Geospatial Science) for African Geographical Review, an American Association of Geographers’ journal.

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