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Photo of Incorporating Digital Trace Data into Movement Estimates for Crisis Response panel at Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week 2026

Using Digital Trace Data to Understand Human Movement in Crises 

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next At this year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week in Geneva, a session explored how emerging digital data sources could help humanitarian organisations better understand how people move during crises. Representing WorldPop, Dr Sarchil Qader joined a panel examining how signals from mobile phones, online platforms, and other connected […]

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Researchers reveal global patterns of ‘urban exodus’ 

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next A new study by an international team led WorldPop postgraduate researcher Qianwen Duan has revealed a significant “urban exodus” across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic. By analysing high-resolution data from 35 countries, the research team found that while many people fled dense city centres for

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Movement, Population, and Infection: How Mobility Data Is Transforming Epidemic Modelling and Control

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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

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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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