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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Understanding how diseases spread in a connected world is one of the greatest challenges in modern public health. Traditional models (like the well-known Susceptible, Infectious, and Recovered (SIR) framework) often assume that everyone mixes uniformly, meaning each person has an equal chance of interacting with everyone else. But reality is far more complex. Human populations
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.
