Tim O'Riordan, Author at WorldPop

GRID3 consultant Chisenga Musuka with printed microplanning map used by Ministry of Health EPI teams for vaccination planning, Lusaka, Zambia

Capacity strengthening in Papua New Guinea and Zambia

WorldPop works with government and non-government agencies in low- and middle-income countries to improve capability in statistical methods of population estimation methods that support achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. This week we have two teams providing in-country training – in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and Lusaka, Zambia. Dr Hal Voepel (WorldPop) presenting an introductory […]

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Winfre Dotse-Gborgbortsi receiving runner-up prize at the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2022 ceremony

WorldPop researcher celebrated for outstanding Early Career impact

WorldPop News / Tim O'Riordan

Spatial Epidemiologist, PhD researcher and WorldPop colleague Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi was awarded runner-up prize at the prestigious ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2022 ceremony at the Royal Society last night. Winfred had been nominated as one of two candidates for the Outstanding Early Career Impact award for his work on Geospatial analysis for Ghanaian maternal healthcare delivery

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Map showing population across Africa, with inset maps for Lusaka and Kinshasa, by Heather Chamberlain

WorldPop takes the #30DayMapChallenge

WorldPop News / Tim O'Riordan

We are just a few days away from the start of the #30DayMapChallenge, which begins next Tuesday, 1 November. Initiated in 2019 by Finnish geographer and map designer Topi Tjukanov, this year we are sharing a variety of maps from across the WorldPop team. For each map we’ll try to share some information on the

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Video: Understanding population distributions supports health programmes, census preparation and disaster response

WorldPop News / Tim O'Riordan

Professor Andy Tatem recently spoke at a virtual event on Geospatial for sustainable agriculture and urban development in Africa organised by The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In this recording of his presentation, Professor Tatem gives an overview of our work and shares examples of the impact of our collaborations with UN

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Sarchil Qader presenting the preEA tool, Benin

Benin adopts WorldPop’s ‘preEA’ tool to conduct its first modern, digitised census

WorldPop News / Tim O'Riordan

Senior Research Fellow Dr Sarchil Qader has recently returned from Benin following three weeks providing intensive GIS training and engaging in field work to assist the country’s National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INStaD), National Institute of Geography (IGN) and the University of Abomey Calavi (UAC), as this west African country prepares for its upcoming

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National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Abuja

Capacity strengthening in Nigeria

WorldPop News / Tim O'Riordan

Following his geospatial analyses of recent household survey and disease surveillance data sets from Nigeria, project lead Dr C. Edson Utazi is in Abuja, Nigeria this week facilitating a workshop with officials from the country’s National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, National Bureau of Statistics, Center for Disease Control and other relevant organisations . The focus

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Edith Darin presenting at IBGE workshop 2022

Working with Brazil’s National Statistics Office as they prepare for their biggest ever census

WorldPop News / Tim O'Riordan

As Brazil prepares for its biggest ever census, WorldPop Research Fellow Edith Darin presented on bottom-up population modelling last month as part of a two-week workshop at the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE, the Brazilian Statistics Office) in Rio de Janeiro. Edith’s contribution came at an important milestone for the IBGE. In August

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Field surveyors carrying out data collection in wheat field

Exploring satellite datasets and advanced statistical models to estimate crop production in Iraq

WorldPop News / Tim O'Riordan

Ensuring food security and shaping policy intervention require accurate and timely mapping and monitoring of agricultural dynamics and production. Many low- and middle-income countries do not have sufficient information on agricultural outputs to inform policy decisions and enable field monitoring – especially at the level of individual farms. This lack of high spatial resolution data

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Supporting socio-economic surveys in the DRC

WorldPop News / Tim O'Riordan

With financial support from the World Bank, WorldPop researcher, Dr Sarchil Qader adopted a ‘preEA Tool’ to create a national sampling frame to serve multiple upcoming socio-economic surveys in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Enumeration Areas (EAs) are small areas of a country that are used to administer surveys and censuses. Individual EAs are

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Photo of a community health worker conducting a survey in the Korail slum, Bangladesh

Finding where population health studies have been conducted to inform climate-health research

WorldPop News / Tim O'Riordan

A new research project is setting out to unlock the potential of combining health monitoring data with climate datasets that cover the same times and regions to improve our understanding of the impact of climate on human health. With funding from the Wellcome Trust, this 12-month project brings together expertise from afrimapr (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine),

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Tim O'Riordan

Capacity strengthening in Papua New Guinea and Zambia

WorldPop researcher celebrated for outstanding Early Career impact

WorldPop takes the #30DayMapChallenge

Video: Understanding population distributions supports health programmes, census preparation and disaster response

Benin adopts WorldPop’s ‘preEA’ tool to conduct its first modern, digitised census

Capacity strengthening in Nigeria

Working with Brazil’s National Statistics Office as they prepare for their biggest ever census

Exploring satellite datasets and advanced statistical models to estimate crop production in Iraq

Supporting socio-economic surveys in the DRC

Finding where population health studies have been conducted to inform climate-health research

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