Immunisation

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New high-resolution mapping reveals critical measles vaccination gaps in children

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next A team of international researchers led by WorldPop Associate Professor Edson Utazi, has developed a new geospatial mapping method to identify exactly where and at what age children are missing life-saving measles vaccines. Accurate and contemporary data is essential for the success of immunisation programs in […]

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Mapping 25 Years of Vaccination Progress in Nigeria: New High-Resolution Insights

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At WorldPop, we believe that everyone should count in data – especially the people who are most likely to be missed. That principle is at the heart of a new preprint and open data release we’re excited to share: the most detailed spatiotemporal analysis to date of childhood vaccination coverage in Nigeria, spanning 25 years

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Mapping the Last Mile: How Data Is Helping Reach Unvaccinated Children

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Imagine a life-saving vaccine is available, but reaching it means walking for hours, sometimes days. For millions of families in low- and middle-income countries, this isn’t a thought experiment. It’s everyday life. In 2021 alone, around 15.7 million children did not receive their first dose of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP1) vaccine. One of the biggest challenges

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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.

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