📣Upcoming lecture given by Ian Coady (@WorldPopProject):

Join us on Thursday 23 May to find out about the role that geospatial data can play in delivering the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, at University of Southampton. 👇

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🚨New research paper: Inter-district and Wealth-related Inequalities in Maternal and Child Health Service Coverage and Child Mortality within Addis Ababa City

In Journal of Urban Health

#Urban #Health #NeonatalMortality #Ethiopia

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Our Data for Development team members Drs Chris Nnanatu & Ortis Yankey are in Cameroon running an 8-day population modelling workshop for National Institute of Statistics and others.
#Geospatial #statistics #BUCREP #IFORDCameroon
Project info 👉 worldpop.org/current-projec…

🚨 Royal Geographical Society event: Can geographers save the world? 🌍

Deputy Director, Ian Coady is speaking at the University of Southampton at 7pm on Thursday, 23 May.

#geospatial #SDGs #InternationalDevelopment

Free tickets and info 👉 rgs.org/events/upcomin…

Professor Andy Tatem appointed ‘Big data, machine learning and AI’ expert on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Research Advisory Group.

southampton.ac.uk/geography/news…

🚨 New blog post:
WorldPop to advise UK government on big data, machine learning and AI

#FCDO #BigData #machinelearning #AI #InternationalDevelopment

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Through the fellowship program, we're strengthening the capacity of early career researchers to monitor and track progress of life saving health interventions.
More on page 52 of @APHRC newsletter: buff.ly/48VFUNS
The GFF World Bank Johns Hopkins CGH WorldPopProject

Kristine and Winfred from WorldPopProject demonstrating to the #CAM2024 participants how to use maps, an excellent tool for showing geographical context.
APHRC The GFF World Bank Johns Hopkins CGH Ministry of Health | Rwanda Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Caroline Kabiru Yohannes Dibaba E. Sidze (African mothers' mental health MATTERS!) Juliet Ratemo-Okumu

#CAM2024 topics includes how to calculate facility data numerators and denominators for facility data, national and subnational coverage, maternal and perinatal mortality rates, outpatient and inpatient service utilization, and other health systems performance measures.

Informative discussions happening at the ongoing Countdown to 2030 annual meeting. Read more about the meeting here: buff.ly/4d1MuFM
#CAM2024
APHRC The GFF University of Rwanda World Bank Johns Hopkins CGH Ministry of Health | Rwanda WorldPopProject Ifakara Health Institute Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Julieth Sebba Bilakwate, MD

Had an amazing time presenting at this years GISRUK conference hosted by the University of Leeds. Shared insights into uncertainty quantification for population disaggregation for some of the amazing work we do WorldPopProject at Geography & Environmental Science at Southampton

ACLED’s Conflict Exposure Calculator found that more than 10 million children in #Sudan have been exposed to violence in the first year of war — a 60% increase from the 6.6 million children exposed in the first month of the fighting.
Save the Children International
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Excited to be presenting my research today at the GISRUK conference hosted by the University of Leeds, sharing insights on building classification into residential, nonresidential and mixed use in #Lagos , #Nigeria . Part of the great work done at WorldPopProject and Geography & Environmental Science at Southampton

I was honored to deliver the opening talk at the GISRUK conference hosted by the University of Leeds, sharing insights of the great work that we at WorldPopProject at Geography & Environmental Science at Southampton do and encouraging excellent discussions among fellow GIS enthusiasts.

Really interesting #GISRUK24 keynote from. The ⁦WorldPopProject⁩ team showing us how to make data usable and accessible

🚨 New blog post: Geospatial Capacity Strengthening in Nigeria

#NPHCDA #Geospatial #Training #Nigeria #Vaccination #AFENETAfrica

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Call for papers in GeoHealth: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) in Public Health, co-guest edited by Prof Yong GE, Prof Bisong Hu, Dr
Nick Ruktanonchai
and me. Welcome submissions by 31 October 2025. More details: tinyurl.com/2yz4y8nc WorldPopProject Geography & Environmental Science at Southampton

🚨 Latest: WorldPop Directors Discuss Data Empowerment at UN Statistical Commission
#UnitedNations #Geospatial #Statistics

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🚨 New research paper: Building footprint data for countries in Africa: To what extent are existing data products comparable?

Comparing #BuildingFootprint data from #Google #Ecopia #Microsoft #OSM for #Africa

#Settlement #Spatial

doi.org/10.1016/j.comp…

And then we explore moving between industry and academic roles in a job webinar with AGI Early Careers Network, with PhD candidate Thomas Goldring, Ian Coady from WorldPopProject

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