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BMGF: WorldPop Global Demographic Data

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Andrew Tatem

Personal Chair

Research interests

  • Developing approaches to map population distributions, demographics and dynamics through complementing traditional datasources (census, survey, registries) with new forms of geospatial data from e.g. satellite imagery and mobile devices.
  • Understanding the drivers of small area heterogeneities in population health and development in low and middle income settings.
  • The use of high resolution demographic and mobility data for improving understanding and modelling of pathogen dynamics.
Connect with Andrew

Email: A.J.Tatem@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Nikos Tzavidis PhD

Professor of Statistical Methodology

Research interests

  • Small Area Estimation and official statistics
  • Outlier robust inference; Quantile and M-quantile models
  • Geospatial data; Poverty mapping; Statistical inference under data aggregation and displacement
Connect with Nikos

Email: N.TZAVIDIS@soton.ac.uk

Dr Jason Hilton

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Demographic Forecasting
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Human Mortality
Connect with Jason

Email: J.D.Hilton@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs