[Turing-Southampton] S3RI seminar: Chigozie Edson Utazi, Thursday 2-3pm

[Helen Ogden]

Dear all,

On Thursday (11 October) at 2pm in 54 / 7035 (7B), we have an S3RI 
seminar from Chigozie Edson Utazi (University of Southampton) on 
"Mapping vaccination coverage to assess progress towards disease 
elimination in low and middle income countries". Details are given below.

The seminar will also be available via a live web-cast at
https://coursecast.soton.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3e410131-050f-42b4-aa9e-7b0f22df4d63

The talk will be followed by tea and cake in the staff reading room on 
level 4 of building 54.

All are welcome!

Best wishes,

Helen


Mapping vaccination coverage to assess progress towards disease 
elimination in low and middle income countries

Chigozie Edson Utazi, University of Southampton

Vaccination coverage is an important indicator used in assessing the 
performance of immunization programs. However, coverage levels and 
numbers covered are typically measured through national statistics or at 
the scale of large regions. These mask epidemiologically-important 
heterogeneities and coldspots of low coverage that may allow diseases to 
persist, even if overall coverage is high. Hence, to decrease inequities 
and accelerate progress towards disease elimination goals, fine-scale 
variation in coverage should be better characterized.

In this talk, I will discuss Bayesian geostatistical methods and data 
sets used in producing high-resolution maps of the coverage of measles 
and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccinations for varying age 
groups of children under five years in some priority countries. I will 
also present a novel disaggregation approach for mapping vaccination 
coverage using areal unit based data in settings where point-referenced 
data are inaccessible.


For the current schedule of S3RI seminars, see 
https://tinyurl.com/s3riseminar

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