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Tatem, NORAD, Geography of Maternal and Newborn Health: Maping for MNH

Staff

Lead researcher

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.
Other researchers

Professor Zoe Matthews

Prof of Global Health&Social Statistics

Research interests

  • Maternal, newborn and adolescent health
  • Health workforce and health systems
  • Sustainable development goals

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Global Health and Policy

GHaP aims to be a central focus of social science related global health research within the School of Social, Economic and Political Sciences and the whole of the University of Southampton.

WorldPop

We develop and implement open, robust and peer-reviewed geospatial methods. These are used for mapping population distributions, demographics and dynamics, with a principle focus on low and middle income countries.
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