A new study led by Senior Research Fellow, Dr Gianluca Boo has introduced a powerful new Bayesian model to estimate population distribution in Kasaï-Oriental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), offering critical insights in a region where public health data has long been scarce. At the heart of this advanced research is a method […]
How do we find out where vaccines aren’t reaching people – especially in places with limited data? A new study led by Dr Edson Utazi at WorldPop, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, has evaluated how different statistical and machine learning methods perform in mapping vaccination coverage at high resolution.
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Senegal is pushing to eliminate malaria by 2030, and a new study could help target the fight more precisely. Researchers at the University of Namur, Belgium, the University of Ghana and WorldPop at the University of Southampton have developed a powerful new way to map malaria risk across the country by integrating both environmental “hazards”
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WorldPop Senior Research Fellow Dr Chris Nnanatu recently took centre stage at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the world’s leading gatherings of statisticians, co-hosted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS). Dr Nnanatu presented pioneering research on improving global population estimates using satellite technology,
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By Attila N Lazar and Tim O’Riordan While global immunisation efforts have seen significant progress, our new high-resolution, digital population and vaccination coverage maps produced for the UNICEF-funded Reach the Unreached project indicate that nearly one million children in five West and Central African countries remain unreached by vaccination services. Despite increased access in many
In a fascinating conversation with journalist and Academy of Social Sciences President Will Hutton, Professor Andy Tatem explains how satellite imagery and mobile phone data are transforming population mapping across the Global South. Used by governments for critical resource allocation, these data is reshaping how policies are made. Professor Tatem shares real-world examples from Papua
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Back in September, BBC Tech Life’s Chris Vallance caught up with our director, Professor Andy Tatem to talk about Google’s Open Buildings project, a massive effort to map and monitor changes in the built environment using satellite data. Professor Tatem explained how this ground breaking dataset is helping WorldPop improve our estimates of where people
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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.
