Performance of Road-Traffic-Based Exposure Proxies Against Personal PM <sub>2.5</sub> Measurements in Three Sub-Saharan African Countries
Road-network proxies provide context-dependent signals of personal PM <sub>2.5</sub> exposure, and predictive performance is strengthened when proxies are combined in a hybrid model.
Authors
- Esperança Sevene (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9025-4052)
- Hiten D. Mistry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2564-7348)
- Laura Munthali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1871-6344)
- Fortunate Machingura (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4623-8180)
- Laurine Chikoko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2244-7500)
- Tamara Govindasamy
- Sibusisiwe Audrey Makhanya
- Terence Darlington Mushore
- The PRECISE Network
- Handsome Bongani Nyoni
- Umberto D'Alessandro
- Peter von Dadelszen
- P. Tatenda Makanga
- Anna Roca
- Marleen Temmerman
- Liberty Makacha
- Matthew F Chersich
- Benjamin Barratt
- Marie-Laure Volvert
- Stanley Luchters
Institutions
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- University of Zimbabwe (ZW)
- University of Leicester (GB)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- Eduardo Mondlane University (MZ)
- King's College London (GB)
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Trinity College Dublin (IE)
- Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MW)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Aga Khan University Nairobi (KE)
- NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (GB)
- MRC Unit the Gambia (GM)
- Manhiça Health Research Centre (MZ)
- Africa Health Research Institute (ZA)
- Centre for Sexual Health and HIV AIDS Research (ZW)
- IBM Research - Africa (ZA)
- Midlands State University (ZW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- medRxiv
- Published
- 2026-03-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.13.26348337
- Primary Topic
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00