Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next A new study by an international team of researchers has successfully mapped the neighbourhood-level spread of COVID-19 in Dakar, Senegal, revealing that high-density residential areas in the city’s west face the greatest risk of infection. The research, led by WorldPop Research Fellow, Dr Assane Gadiaga at the University of Southampton […]
Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Last week, WorldPop researchers demonstrated how advanced geospatial mapping and machine learning can solve critical global health challenges, from tracking viral tourism trends to reaching “zero-dose” children. Presenting at the GEOMED 2026 conference at the Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain, Dr Edson Utazi, Krishnaveni KS
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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Last week, Research Fellow Dr Somnath Chaudhri presented new research on mapping the risks of Guinea Worm Disease across Sub-Saharan Africa at the Intelligent Systems for Vector-Borne Disease Study Group Meeting held at The Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. The presentation focused on how spatial
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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Artificial intelligence is already reshaping fields like finance, transportation, and medicine. Now it is being deployed against one of humanity’s oldest and deadliest diseases: malaria. With funding provided by the Web Science Institute, WorldPop is applying its AI and spatial demography and epidemiology expertise to a
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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next WorldPop Associate Professor, Dr Edson Utazi presented Mapping the Risk of Guinea Worm Disease project findings last week at the 2026 Guinea Worm Eradication Program (GWEP) Research Review meeting, organised by The Carter Center. The meeting brought together experts from across the world working in areas such as genomics, geospatial
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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials have worried about a “triple-demic”, a simultaneous surge of COVID-19, the flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV – an infection that causes common cold-like symptoms). But what if these viruses don’t just spread alongside each other?
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In today’s interconnected world, a local outbreak can become a global crisis with remarkable speed. Planes link distant cities in hours, social media connects millions in seconds, and our daily routines weave together countless invisible threads of contact. A recent scoping review led by WorldPop PhD researcher Zhifeng Cheng and published in Infectious Diseases of
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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.
