Measuring healthcare utilisation with routine health data in Africa
This talk explores how routine health data can reveal real healthcare use across Africa, improving monitoring, highlighting gaps, and supporting stronger, data-driven health systems.
Measuring healthcare utilisation with routine health data in Africa
21 Oct 2025, 13:00 – 14:00
Join us for this week’s Human Geography Seminar, featuring Dr Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi. His talk examines how routine health data can be used to measure real healthcare use across Africa, revealing service gaps and strengthening health system monitoring.
Building on his research in public health and spatial epidemiology, Dr Dotse-Gborgbortsi explores how routine health data can provide timely, detailed insights into how people use healthcare services across Africa. The talk highlights innovations in data collection and analysis that improve understanding of health system performance, identify service gaps, and support more responsive, evidence-based policy decisions.
Dr Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi is a UCL geographer and public health researcher focusing on maternal, newborn, and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. He works on healthcare accessibility, utilisation, and spatial inequalities, and previously co-led the Countdown to 2030 project at WorldPop. He has worked with the Ghana Health Service and international NGOs and serves on the editorial board of BMC Health Services Research and as a visiting fellow at WorldPop.
Routine Health Data
Routine health facility data capture actual service use year-round, providing more timely and granular insights into health system performance than population-based surveys conducted every few years.
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UCL Human Geography Seminar Series – weekly on Tuesdays, 1–2pm, NWW 304
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