Vaccination

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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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Benin adopts WorldPop’s ‘preEA’ tool to conduct its first modern, digitised census

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Senior Research Fellow Dr Sarchil Qader has recently returned from Benin following three weeks providing intensive GIS training and engaging in field work to assist the country’s National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INStaD), National Institute of Geography (IGN) and the University of Abomey Calavi (UAC), as this west African country prepares for its upcoming

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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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