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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. SEDAC data sets disappeared from NASA Earthdata for approximately two months, but are now back online via Earthdata Search. At the same time, CIESIN plans to transition its data to the CAFE collection of the Harvard Dataverse. Data sets should start appearing there in July. For further information please contact [email protected].