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Research Group: Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)

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We combine expertise in population, health and wellbeing with the application of technical excellence in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis and qualitative methods. The group has attracted significant support from the UK Research Councils and international charities. Members have ongoing advisory roles with UK and overseas governments as well as international agencies. The renowned WorldPop Team is part of PheW.

Group Overview

Our research expertise spans local and global population and health challenges — Global population and health

Current research priorities

Spatial analysis and population modelling

Population health

Cultures, spaces and practices of care and wellbeing

Main areas of expertise

Health Geography

Population Geography

Geographical Data Science

Publications

Articles

Books

Brown, T., Andrews, G. J., Cummins, S., Greenhough, B., Lewis, D., & Power, A. (2017). Health geographies: a critical introduction. (1 ed.) (Critical Introductions to Geography). Wiley-Blackwell.
Barnett, R., Moon, G., Pearce, J., Thompson, L., & Twigg, L. (2016). Smoking Geographies: Space, Place and Tobacco. (RGS-IBG Book Series). Wiley-Blackwell.
Fox, A., & Macpherson, H. (2015). Inclusive Arts Practice and Research: A Critical Manifesto. Routledge.
Moon, G., Kearns, R., & Joseph, A. (2015). The afterlives of the psychiatric asylum: the recycling of concepts, sites and memories. Ashgate.
Power, A., Lord, J., & DeFranco, A. (2013). Active Citizenship and Disability: Implementing the Personalisation of Support. (Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series). Cambridge University Press.
Power, A. (2010). Landscapes of care: comparative perspectives on family caregiving. Ashgate.
Hatton, C., Robertson, J., Power, A., Baines, S., Emerson, E., & Department of Health (2008). Summary of responses to the Consultation on Valuing People Now: from progress to transformation. Department of Health.

Book Chapters

Conferences

Journal Special Issue

Spielman, S. (Guest ed.), Xiao, N. (Guest ed.), Cockings, S. (Guest ed.), & Tanton, R. (Guest ed.) (2017). Spatial analysis with census data: Emerging issues and innovative approaches. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 63. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01989715/63
Gray, B., Weal, M. J., & Martin, D. (2016). Social media and disasters: applying a new conceptual framework to the case of Storm Desmond. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 8(4), 41-55. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJISCRAM.2016100103

Letters/Editorials

Lai, S., Chen, Q., & Li, Z. (2021). Human brucellosis: an ongoing global health challenge. China CDC Weekly, 3(6), 120-123. https://doi.org/10.46234/ccdcw2021.031
Reuschke, D., & Ekinsmyth, C. (Accepted/In press). New spatialities of work in the city. Urban Studies.
Utazi, C., & Tatem, A. (2020). Precise mapping reveals gaps in global measles vaccination coverage. Nature, 589, 354-355. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03391-1
Jia, P., Dong, W., Yang, S., Zhan, Z., Tu, L., & Lai, S. (2020). Spatial lifecourse epidemiology and infectious disease research. Trends in Parasitology, 36(3), 235-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pt.2019.12.012
Weich, S., Duncan, C., Fenton, S. J., Moon, G., Singh, S., Bhui, K., Twigg, L., Madan, J., Crepaz-Keay, D., & Parsons, H. (2019). Authors' reply. British Journal of Psychiatry, 214(1), 52-53. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2018.217
Matthews, Z., Rawlins, B., Duong, J., Molla, Y. B., Moran, A. C., Singh, K., Serbanescu, F., Tatem, A., & Nilsen, K. (2019). Geospatial analysis for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health: gaps and opportunities. BMJ Global Health, 4(5). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001702
Tatem, A. J. (2018). Innovation to impact in spatial epidemiology. BMC Medicine, 16(1), 209. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1205-5
Grüntzig, K., Graf, R., Hässig, M., Welle, M., Meier, D., Lott, G., Erni, D., Schenker, N. S., Guscetti, F., Boo, G., Axhausen, K., Fabrikant, S., Folkers, G., & Pospischil, A. (2015). Corrigendum to "The Swiss Canine Cancer Registry: A Retrospective Study on the Occurrence of Tumours in Dogs in Switzerland from 1955 to 2008" [J Comp Pathol 152 (2-3) (2015) 161-171]. Journal of Comparative Pathology, 153(1), 64-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpa.2015.04.008

Reports

Reviews

Theses

Working Papers

Lai, S., Bogoch, I. I., Ruktanonchai, N., Watts, A. G., Li, Y., Yu, J., LV, X., Yang, W., Hongjie, Y., Khan, K., Li, Z., & Tatem, A. (2020). Assessing spread risk of Wuhan novel coronavirus within and beyond China, January-April 2020: a travel network-based modelling study. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020479
Lai, S., Ruktanonchai, N. W., Carioli, A., Ruktanonchai, C., Floyd, J., Prosper, O., Zhang, C., Du, X., Yang, W., & Tatem, A. J. (2020). Assessing the effect of global travel and contact reductions to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic and resurgence. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.17.20133843
Bosco, C., Tejedor Garavito, N., de Rigo, D., Tatem, A., Pezzulo, C., Wood, R., Chamberlain, H., & Bird, T. J. (2018). Geostatistical tools to map the interaction between development aid and indices of need. (AidData Working Paper; No. 49). AidData. http://docs.aiddata.org/ad4/pdfs/wps49_Geostatistical_Tools_to_Map_the_Interaction_between_Development_Aid_and_Indices_of_Need--optimized.pdf
Robards, J., Gale, C. G., & Martin, D. (2017). Creating a synthetic spatial microdataset for zone design experiments. (National Centre for Research Methods Working Papers; Vol. 17, No. 5). National Centre for Research Methods, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton. http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/4038/1/Synthetic%20spatial%20microdataset.pdf
Macpherson, H. (2004). Participation, practitioners and power: community participation in North-East community forests. (ODPM Working Paper Series). ODPM. http://eprints.brighton.ac.uk/6035/

Research Staff

List of all staff members in Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)
Staff Member	Primary Position
Victor Alegana	Research Fellow
Hannah Barker (Barnes)	Postgraduate research student
Sarah L Belben	Postgraduate Research Student
Gianluca Boo	Research Fellow
Monique Campbell	Post Graduate Researcher
Heather R Chamberlain	Enterprise Fellow
Samantha Cockings	Associate Professor in Geography
Alexander Cunningham	Research Technician, GIS
Simon Damkjaer	Research Fellow, ESRC-GCRF funded Water and Waste Project
Edith Darin	Specialist Research Technician in Population Modelling
Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi	Postgraduate research student
Alexandra Frosch	Research Project Manager
Kate Goldie	Postgraduate Research Student
Graeme Hornby	GIS Data Analyst and GIS Trainer for Geodata and WorldPop/Flowminder
Rachel Houweling	Postgraduate Research Student
Warren C. Jochem	Research Fellow
Shengjie Lai	Senior Research Fellow
John Latham	Visiting Professor
Christopher T Lloyd	Research Fellow
Bianca Luna	Postgraduate Research Student
David Martin	Professor of Geography
Graham Moon	Emeritus Professor of Human Geography
Kristine Nilsen	Research Fellow
Laura I Paddon	PhD Researcher
Hao-Che Pei	Postgraduate Research Student
Carla Pezzulo	Senior Enterprise Fellow
Andrew Power	Associate Professor in Human Geography
Sarchil Hama Qader	Research Fellow
Darja Reuschke	Associate Professor
Amanda Roden	Senior Administrative Officer
Emma Roe	Associate Professor in Human Geography
Dianna Smith	Lecturer in GIS
Alessandro Sorichetta	Associate Professor
Jessica E Steele	Senior Enterprise Fellow
Andrew J Tatem	Professor
Robert Taylor	Postgraduate Research Student
Natalia Tejedor Garavito	Research Fellow
Rebecca Thomas	Postgraduate Research Student
Mair L.H. Thomas	Postgraduate Researcher
Mair L.H. Thomas	Postgraduate Researcher
Chigozie Edson Utazi	Senior Research Fellow
Nicola Wardrop	Visiting Academic
Eleanor Wilkinson	Associate Professor in Human Geography
Dorothea Woods	GIS trainer and analyst
Jim Wright	Professor in Geographic Information Science and International Development
Weiyu Yu	Research Fellow

Related Projects

List of related projects to Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)
Related Projects	Status
Groundwater2030	Active
Mapping seasonal denominator dynamics in low and middle income settings (Seasonality)	Active
Mapping Zero-Dose Populations: conflict, remote, rural, urban poor (Zero Dose)	Active
National Centre for Research Methods	Active
Monitoring Outbreak events for Disease surveillance in a data science context	Active
The Wessex FRIEND Toolbox (Family Risk IdEntificatioN and Decision)	Active
UK Data Service	Active
GRID3 (Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development)	Active
Enhancing Understanding of Domestic Groundwater Quality and Contamination Hazards in Greater Accra	Active
Estimating Health Census Geographies: Using Synthetic Estimation with Secondary Survey and Census Data	Active
Care theme	Active
Novel Bayesian Time Series Regression Methods For Estimating National Immunization Coverage	Active
Urban Drinking Water and Health Outcomes - Early Phase Study for a Randomized Controlled Trial in Accra, Ghana	Active
SPIRIT (Southampton Platform for Inclusive Research and Ideas Transaction)	Active
OneHealthWater: Drinking-water under a “One Health” lens - quantifying microbial contamination pathways between livestock and drinking-water	Active
Workplace Zones	Active
Population Health theme	Active
Spatial Population Analysis and Modelling theme	Active
Malaria Eliminations - Mobility and Connectivity Mapping (Years 1-4)	Dormant
Census2011Geog	Dormant
Use of novel modeling approaches to improve measles and rubella vaccination strategies (VaxPop)	Dormant
Mapping gender-disaggregated migration movements at subnational scales in and between low- and middle-income countries	Dormant
ReStore-Sustaining Online Resources	Dormant
MAUPP (Modelling and forecasting African Urban Population Patterns)	Dormant
Population24/7: Space–Time Specific Population Surface Modelling	Dormant
High resolution global mapping of women of childbearing age, pregnancies and births for Zika burden estimation	Dormant
Sustaining groundwater safety in peri-urban areas	Dormant
Seasonal drivers of human movement and aggregation in a changing climate: consequences for infectious disease dynamics and control	Dormant
Nuclear Families	Dormant

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