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GF WorldPop Support

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

Mrs Sada Saxton

Deputy Director Development & Operations
Connect with Sada

Email: S.Saxton@soton.ac.uk

Dr Jessica Espey

WorldPop Deputy Director Academic
Research interests
  • The international governance of sustainable development.
  • Science advisory systems and other processes supporting evidence informed policy-making across scales of government.
  • The production, curation, governance and use of data and statistics in support of sustainable development, including fundamental demographic data (as per the work of WorldPop).
Connect with Jessica

Email: J.M.Espey@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs