The science behind askNivi

An update on Vaccine Hesitancy in Kenya and India, May 2021

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We’re monitoring public opinion about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines via askNivi, our free conversational agent for health. This is our May 2021 update.

Tracking vaccine hesitancy, India

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Results from initial polling in India.

Mister P helps us understand vaccine hesitancy

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sampling
non-representative surveys
multilevel regression and post-stratification

In this post we imagine a fictional country called Dansia to illustrate how multilevel regression and post-stratification can help us to make sense of data from non-representative surveys.

Tracking vaccine hesitancy

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kenya
chatbot

Results from an initial poll in Kenya.

New pre-print about predicting healthcare seeking behavior

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family planning
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Behavior change is a process. In this paper we describe the development and validation of a model for predicting who will visit a family planning provider to inform intervention tailoring.

What is the best method of family planning for me?

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sms

A reproducible text mining example from our new paper.

Results of a pilot randomized encouragement trial

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family planning
kenya

This post explores the results of pilot study looking at the impact of automated IVR counseling sessions on contraception take up among women with an unmet need for family planning in Kenya

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