Housing design to reduce Overheating and Malaria risk in indoor Environments
HOME studies the dual burden of malaria risks and heat stress risks in low-income homes in Kenya post malaria prevention intervention implementation.
The detailed objectives of the study are:
- Understand the current mosquito-prevention house modification practices, available and acceptable technologies, domestic socio-cultural practices (like cooking fuel, duration etc), and the heat stress experienced by the residents of low-income houses through community workshops.
- Determine the magnitude of indoor heat stress due to the house modifications for mosquito prevention building simulation.
- Propose optimised and acceptable house designs and modifications to reduce indoor heat stress and mosquito entry in low-income rural housing.
- Develop an integrated evidence-based design guideline to inform the policy makers, NGOs and local residents for improved living standards.
Team
| Principal investigator | Dr Ronita Bardhan, University of Cambridge, UK | |
| Co Investigator | Professor Carol Brayne, Cambridge Public Health | |
| Collaborator | Dr Bernard Abong’o, Kenya Medical Research Institute, CGHR, Kenya | |
| Researcher Assistant | Haiwei Li, University of Cambridge, UK | |
| Researcher Assistant | Dr Haima Raman, University of Cambridge, UK | |
| Project Administrator | Mutsuko Grant |
Publications
[Preprint]
Bardhan, R., Li, H., Raman, H., et al . Adapting to the Heat, Fighting with the Bite: A Two-fold Risk Assessment Coupling Indoor Heat Stress and Malaria Disease in Traditional African Settlements, 13 August 2024, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4888777/v1]
