Tim O'Riordan

The head of our Geospatial Data and Analysis team, Dr Natalia Tejedor-Garavito was a guest speaker and panellist at the “Statistical Mind: 70 making us all count” meeting in Bogotá, Colombia in December. The event was organised by the National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE) as part of their 70th anniversary celebrations and […]

A team led by Principal Enterprise Fellow Dr Natalia-Tejedor-Garavito has recently completed a ground-breaking initiative aimed at improving our understanding of the impact of climate on human health. Through this Wellcome Trust-funded project the team developed an open-source geospatial dataset and interactive web portal that demonstrates the potential for combining health monitoring data with climate

Earlier this month the Thailand National Statistical Office (TNSO) concluded the second phase of innovative WorldPop training in spatial population modelling. Organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Thailand to help improve the efficiency and accuracy of census processes in the country more than 25 participants from the TSNO, academia, and the UNFPA joined

Senior Research Fellow Dr Sarchil Qader recently participated in the Data for Decision-Making panel discussion at the 1st MEED Conference for Regional Development in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Regional development in Iraq is compromised because the country has not conducted a census in several decades. During the debate Dr Qader explained how new satellite

Our Deputy Director for Enterprise and Engagement, Ian Coady recently travelled to Punta del Este, Uruguay to join the Festival de Datos, a celebration of the use of data in international development, organised by Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data. The 3-day festival included debates on AI for Development, inclusive data processes, innovations for public

In early August we concluded and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). ACLED is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project that records the dates, actors, types, locations, and fatalities of all reported political violence and protest events across the world. Our MOU

At last month’s Geopalooza 3.0 virtual symposium our Director, Professor Andy Tatem, spoke about our population modelling work with agencies in low- and middle-income countries. In his talk entitled, Where is everyone? Mixing and matching modelling methods for mapping populations, he called for greater emphasis on co-development with stakeholders to ensure that health, development, and