Staff Profiles

PhD: (2019) Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences (Michigan State University, Michigan, USA) 

MA: (2014) Geography (Binghamton University, New York, USA)

PGDE: (2012) (University of Botswana)

BA: (2011) Environmental Science (University of Botswana)

I am a health and medical geographer who uses GIS and spatial epidemiological techniques in population and medical geography that enhance the complex interplay between disease, population and the environment. I also explore 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. I am also an Associate Editor (Geospatial ) for African Geographical Review (AGR), journal of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rafg20

Medical Geography

Population Geography

Quantitative Methods

Medical Geography

ENS 362 Environment and Diseases

ENS 363 Health Care Geography

Population Geography

ENS 260 Environment and Pop Dynamics

ENS 360 Concepts & Principles in Pop Geo

ENS 361 Techniques in Pop Geo

ENS 461 Advanced Techniques in Pop Geo

Quantitative Methods

ENS 112/141, ENS 115/142- Intro to Quantitative methods in ENS

Graduate Classes

ENS 638 Pop, Environment & Development

ENS 633 Sustainable Cities

HIV/AIDS, Antiretroviral therapies adherence,

Spatial Epidemiology, Geographic Information System (GIS),

Health Services Research, PMTCT,  Hypertension, Obesity.

The built environment

HIV and NCDs

Urban and rural Health

Population Dynamics

Kelepile, M., Kebotsamang, K., Mawi, M., Molebatsi, K., Molefe-Baikai, O. J., Babayani, N., ... & Mosepele, M. (2026). Spatial distribution of central obesity in rural and peri urban communities of Botswana: a nested Botswana Combination Prevention Project (BCPP) cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health.

Molefe-Baikai, O.J., Kebotsamang, K., Manyeagae, G.D., Moshomo, T., Mawi, M., Mogaetsho, E., Gaolathe, T., Molebatsi, K., Kelepile, M., Kgotlaetsile, K. and Leeme, T., 2026. Self-reported early-onset menopause among women living with HIV and hypertension in Botswana: a cross-sectional study. Menopause, pp.10-1097.

Kelepile, M., & Grady, S. C. (2025). Prevalence and Factors Influencing Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Nonadherence in Men During Different Stages of the Life Course: A Case Study in Greater Gaborone, Botswana. AIDS Research and Treatment, 

Simela, S.R., Kelepile, M. and Sebobi, T.I., 2025. Spatial analysis and associated risk factors of HIV prevalence in Botswana: insights from the 2021 Botswana AIDS Impact Survey (BAIS V). BMC Infectious Diseases, 25(1), p.69.