When certain groups of people are systematically undercounted, they become invisible to policymakers.
- WorldPop Director, Professor of Spatial Demography and Epidemiology, University of Southampton
There have been concerns that lunar new year may cause the current wave of COVID infections in China to spread much further and faster. But the worst has likely passed.
Analysis of smartphone data shows why countries need to coordinate border closures to stop the spread of the new variant.
Immunisation programmes have taken a back seat because of Ebola and it leaves countries vulnerable to other outbreaks.
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them – some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the developing…
In the developed world where many people happily post their current locations on Facebook and can look up the exact locations of buildings online, it is often overlooked how poor locational information…
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