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Phone:: (023) 8059 2636
Email:: C.Pezzulo@soton.ac.uk

Dr Carla Pezzulo PhD

Senior Research Assistant

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Carla is an expert in analysis of household survey data and socio-economic indicators in low income countries.

Since 2005 Carla has been focusing on population Issues in developing countries, and specifically adolescent fertility, maternal reproductive behavior and health facilities in sub Saharan African Countries. Her PhD thesis, undertaken at Dept. of Politics, Institutions and History and Dept. of Statistics, Università di Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum, Italy aimed at analysing the geographic and socioeconomic determinants of accessing health care facilities by young women in Kenya. During her studies she gained a multidisciplinary profile ranging from development economics to Sub Saharan Africa History. Carla also conducted field research in Kenya, where she interviewed young women in rural areas and urban slums on reproductive behaviours. Part of her thesis work was presented at the European Population Conference, 2010, Vienna.

In 2010 she was visiting research fellow at the Dept. of Social Statistics and Demography of the School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, for six months, under the supervision of Professor Nyovani J Madise. She was Research Assistant at the Evaluation Unit of the International Labour Organization in Geneva for six months in 2012.

Since 2013, Carla has been a research fellow in Geography and Environment, University of Southampton and works on a variety of projects led by WorldPop Project and Flowminder Foundation. She was appointed in Geography and Environment in 2013 to work on "High resolution gridded poverty surface development" Project at the University of Southampton, under the supervision of Dr. Andrew J Tatem and Dr. Peter W. Gething, (University of Oxford) and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

During her spare time, Carla enjoys going to concerts, reading crime books, practicing yoga, hiking and trying to find the best pizza available.

Research

Publications

Contact

Research interests

Maternal and Child Health in Developing Countries
Adolescent Fertility
Urban and Rural Poverty
Mapping and Spatial Analysis
Population dynamics

Research projects

High-resolution gridded poverty surface development

The project aims to develop new geostatistical methodologies to generate gridded population and poverty datasets and associated spatial uncertainty metrics from a variety of household survey data and geospatial covariates. By demonstrating a proof-of-concept and delivering modelled poverty surfaces for target countries, this work may initiate a longer term objective to map a broader suite of demographic indicators and provide a resource for a diverse range of policy, academic and operational users.

Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Under the supervision of Dr Andrew Tatem (Geography and Environment, University of Southampton) and Dr Peter Gething (Zoology, University of Oxford).

Research group

Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)

Research project(s)

Population Health theme

Articles

Steele, J. E., Sundsoy, P. R., Pezzulo, C., Alegana, V. A., Bird, T. J., Blumenstock, J., ... Bengtsson, L. (2017). Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 14(127), 1-10. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0690

Pezzulo, C., Hornby, G., Sorichetta, A., Gaughan, A. E., Linard, C., Bird, T., ... Tatem, A. (2017). Sub-national mapping of population pyramids and dependency ratios in Africa and Asia. Scientific Data, 4, 1-15. [170089]. DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.89

Alegana, V., Wright, J., Pezzulo, C., Tatem, A., & Atkinson, P. (2017). Treatment-seeking behaviour in low- and middle-income countries estimated using a Bayesian model. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 17, [67]. DOI: 10.1186/s12874-017-0346-0

Zu Erbach-Schoenberg, E., Alegana, V. A., Sorichetta, A., Linard, C., Lourenco, C., Ruktanonchai, N. W., ... Tatem, A. J. (2016). Dynamic denominators: the impact of seasonally varying population numbers on disease incidence estimates. Population Health Metrics, 14(35), 1-10. DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0106-0

Ruktanonchai, C. W., Ruktanonchai, N. W., Nove, A., Lopes, S., Pezzulo, C., Bosco, C., ... Tatem, A. J. (2016). Equality in maternal and newborn health: modelling geographic disparities in utilisation of care in five East African countries. PLoS ONE, 11(8), 1-17. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162006

Sorichetta, A., Bird, T. J., Ruktanonchai, N. W., Zu Erbach-Schoenberg, E., Pezzulo, C., Tejedor Garavito, N., ... Tatem, A. J. (2016). Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries. Scientific Data, 3(160066), 1-16. DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.66

Alegana, V. A., Atkinson, P. M., Pezzulo, C., Sorichetta, A., Weiss, D., Bird, T., ... Tatem, A. J. (2015). Fine resolution mapping of population age-structures for health and development applications. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 12(105), 20150073-[11pp]. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0073

Sedda, L., Tatem, A. J., Morley, D. W., Atkinson, P. M., Wardrop, N. A., Pezzulo, C., ... Rogers, D. J. (2015). Poverty, health and satellite-derived vegetation indices: their inter-spatial relationship in West Africa. International Health, 7(2), 99-106. DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihv005

Reports

Vaitla, B., Bosco, C., Alegana, V., Bird, T., Pezzulo, C., Hornby, G., ... Eekhout, W. (2017). Big Data and the Well-Being of Women and Girls: Applications on the Social Scientific Frontier . Data2x.

Pezzulo, C., Bird, T., Utazi, E. C., Sorichetta, A., Tatem, A. J., Yourkavitch, J., & Burgert-Brucker, C. R. (2016). Geospatial modeling of child mortality across 27 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. (DHS Spatial Analysis Reports; No. 13). Rockville, US: ICF International.

Dr Carla Pezzulo
Building 44 University of Southampton University Road Southampton SO17 1BJ

Room Number:54/2001

Telephone:(023) 8059 2636
Facsimile:(023) 8059 3295
Email:C.Pezzulo@soton.ac.uk

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