After a productive one-week workshop in Panama where multiple national statical offices (NSOs) and UN agencies from different countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region participated (read more here), Dr Sarchil Qader continued his journey in the region to lead various engagements, discussions and training with NSOs. Panama is planning to conduct various socioeconomic […]
Many countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region have recently conducted censuses and are in the process of compiling and analysing results. Within censuses, challenges can often arise around omission of certain populations, geographical access, distribution of small area results and updating sample frames. WorldPop in collaboration with the Regional Office for Latin America
Three members of our team have recently returned from a very productive few weeks where they were engaged in running workshops in South Africa, Zambia and Benin. Facilitators and participants at DHIS2 workshop in Cape Town South Africa. Photo credit: DHIS2, 2023. Senior Enterprise Fellow Heather Chamberlain joined a 10 strong DHIS2 training facilitation team
Strengthening skills in South Africa, Zambia and Benin Read More »
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
Senior Research Fellow Dr Chris Nnanatu has recently returned Awka, Nigeria where he worked with the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis at Nnamdi Azikiwe University (LISA-NAU) technical group to run a Geospatial Statistical Models in R with Applications in Health and Population Studies workshop. More than 100 participants including lecturers, researchers, and students from the
Health and population data R workshop in southern Nigeria Read More »
In recent weeks WorldPop experts visited Nigeria to run two workshops as part of our GRID3 Phase II project. The workshops were run for staff at the National Population Commission (NPC) and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in support of Nigeria’s 2023 national population and housing census. Senior Research Fellows Dr Sarchil Qader and
“You count, be counted” – Capacity strengthening workshops supporting Nigeria’s census Read More »
Shengjie Lai, University of Southampton and Andrew J Tatem, University of Southampton China stuck rigidly to a zero-COVID policy until December 2022. This included travel restrictions, mass testing and mandatory quarantines. The rapid lifting of this strategy led to a surge of COVID infections across the country. There have been concerns that the Chinese lunar
Earlier this week Senior Research Fellow, Dr Sarchil Qader led an intensive 2-day bi-lingual virtual training workshop to strengthen Benin’s and the Republic of Guinea’s geospatial skills as both countries prepare to conduct their national censuses. Dr Qader gave step-by-step guidance to cartographers from Benin’s National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INStaD) and the Republic
A virtual preEA workshop for the Guinea and Benin Read More »
Our Director, Professor Andy Tatem and Senior Research Fellow Dr Chris Nnanatu have just returned from running a successful 4-day workshop for the Thai National Statistical Office (TNSO) in Bangkok. Thailand was set to conduct a national census in 2020 to provide vital statistics to support governance and the allocation of resources. This was delayed
Workshop on modelled population estimates in Thailand Read More »
Last week one of our project teams returned from running a 5-day capacity strengthening workshop in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Organised with the PNG National Statistics Office (NSO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as part of our Intercensal modelled population estimates for Papua New Guinea project, the workshop was run by Principal Research
Population estimation workshop aids decision making in Papua New Guinea Read More »
The WorldPop research programme, based in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton, is a multi-sectoral team of researchers, technicians and project specialists that produces data on population distributions and characteristics at high spatial resolution.
Initiated in October 2013 to combine The AfriPop Project, AsiaPop and AmeriPop projects, we have a diverse portfolio of projects, including large multi-million-pound collaborative projects with partner organisations, commercial data providers and international development organisations.
