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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A new MOnitoring Outbreaks for Disease surveillance in a data science context (MOOD) Horizon 2020 study published this week offers an insightful look at how disease modelling and data use changed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The research, led by Dr Esther van Kleef, Technical Consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO), with WorldPop’s Professor Andy
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As climate change drives more extreme weather patterns, the need for accurate and timely flood forecasting has never been greater. A global leader in this effort, Google’s Flood Hub, uses artificial intelligence to predict riverine floods1, and behind the scenes, WorldPop’s Global Project Population dataset is playing a pivotal role in shaping the tool’s impact.
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We’re excited to be working side by side with Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) and UNFPA to modernise survey planning and sampling in Pakistan, through a strategic training programme focused on Advanced Sampling for Complex Integrated Specialized Household and Economic Surveys run by Senior Research Fellows, Dr Sarchil Qader and Dr Gianluca Boo. Dr Qader
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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.
