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A virtual preEA workshop for the Guinea and Benin

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Earlier this week Senior Research Fellow, Dr Sarchil Qader led an intensive 2-day bi-lingual virtual training workshop to strengthen Benin’s and the Republic of Guinea’s geospatial skills as both countries prepare to conduct their national censuses. Dr Qader gave step-by-step guidance to cartographers from Benin’s National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INStaD) and the Republic […]

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Workshop on modelled population estimates in Thailand

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Our Director, Professor Andy Tatem and Senior Research Fellow Dr Chris Nnanatu have just returned from running a successful 4-day workshop for the Thai National Statistical Office (TNSO) in Bangkok. Thailand was set to conduct a national census in 2020 to provide vital statistics to support governance and the allocation of resources. This was delayed

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Population estimation workshop aids decision making in Papua New Guinea

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Last week one of our project teams returned from running a 5-day capacity strengthening workshop in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Organised with the PNG National Statistics Office (NSO) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) as part of our Intercensal modelled population estimates for Papua New Guinea project, the workshop was run by Principal Research

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Population modelling and mapping workshop supports health planning in Ghana

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Next week we welcome health statisticians and planners from Ghana to a bespoke 5 day workshop on population modelling and mapping for health, hosted by the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton as part of our Countdown to 2030 project. Participants from the University of Ghana, the Ghana Health Service

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GRID3 consultant Chisenga Musuka with printed microplanning map used by Ministry of Health EPI teams for vaccination planning, Lusaka, Zambia

Capacity strengthening in Papua New Guinea and Zambia

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WorldPop works with government and non-government agencies in low- and middle-income countries to improve capability in statistical methods of population estimation methods that support achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. This week we have two teams providing in-country training – in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and Lusaka, Zambia. Dr Hal Voepel (WorldPop) presenting an introductory

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Winfre Dotse-Gborgbortsi receiving runner-up prize at the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2022 ceremony

WorldPop researcher celebrated for outstanding Early Career impact

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Spatial Epidemiologist, PhD researcher and WorldPop colleague Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi was awarded runner-up prize at the prestigious ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2022 ceremony at the Royal Society last night. Winfred had been nominated as one of two candidates for the Outstanding Early Career Impact award for his work on Geospatial analysis for Ghanaian maternal healthcare delivery

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Video: Understanding population distributions supports health programmes, census preparation and disaster response

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Professor Andy Tatem recently spoke at a virtual event on Geospatial for sustainable agriculture and urban development in Africa organised by The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In this recording of his presentation, Professor Tatem gives an overview of our work and shares examples of the impact of our collaborations with UN

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Sarchil Qader presenting the preEA tool, Benin

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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About Us

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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