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Slide 1: Health officials in Nigeria reviewing catchment area maps for COVID-19 vaccinations produced by CIESIN under its GRID3 project
Slide 2: CIESIN scientists contribute to innovative thinking on managed retreat from the coastal zone through research and teaching
Slide 3: CIESIN is the lead on a workshop in Rio De Janeiro in November 2024 to better integrate the social scientific perspectives and data into climate disaster resilience planning
Slide 4: GPW version 4, Basic Demographic Characteristics data set: Percent population of children under 15 years of age.
Slide 5: Cities in Africa, such as Dakar, Senegal (pictured), are growing rapidly. CIESIN scientists are leaders in studying the development and characteristics of informal settlements
Slide 6: Under Mozambique's Reach Every District/Reach Every Community Initiative (RED/REC), program managers and health officials review a map to validate health infrastructure under CIESIN's GRID3/UNICEF project

Health officials in Nigeria reviewing GRID3 catchment area maps for COVID-19 vaccinations produced by CIESIN, supporting vaccination microplanning efforts. Image Credit: Leke Alabi-Isama.

Gridded Population of the World: Basic Demographic Characteristics data set: Percent population of children under 15 years of age compared to total population (darker shading denotes higher percentage of children).

As part of Mozambique's Reach Every District/Reach Every Community Initiative (RED/REC), program managers and health officials convened in the Ovuwa Lodge of the Mocuba District in July 2023 to map and validate health infrastructure, supported by GRID3. Image Credit: Albert Nicolau.

The Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN) is a center within the Columbia Climate School at Columbia University. CIESIN conducts cutting-edge geospatially enabled research and develops interdisciplinary data and systems to advance understanding of human-environment interactions and support public policy and private decision making.

Notice: The contract for the CIESIN-managed NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) was terminated on 30 April 2025, and its data are no longer included in the NASA Earthdata or Data.gov catalogs. CIESIN prepared a spreadsheet with links to the data sets, available here.