title: Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries.
abstract: Human mobility continues to increase in terms of volumes and reach, producing growing global connectivity. This connectivity hampers efforts to eliminate infectious diseases such as malaria through reintroductions of pathogens, and thus accounting for it becomes important in designing global, continental, regional, and national strategies. Recent works have shown that census-derived migration data provides a good proxy for internal connectivity, in terms of relative strengths of movement between administrative units, across temporal scales. To support global malaria eradication strategy efforts, here we describe the construction of an open access archive of estimated internal migration flows in endemic countries built through pooling of census microdata. These connectivity datasets, described here along with the approaches and methods used to create and validate them, are available both through the WorldPop website and the WorldPop Dataverse Repository.
authors.affiliation: WorldPop, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.|Flowminder Foundation, Roslagsgatan 17, Stockholm SE-11355, Sweden.|Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sorichetta
authors.affiliation: WorldPop, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.|Flowminder Foundation, Roslagsgatan 17, Stockholm SE-11355, Sweden.
authors.forename: Tom J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Bird
authors.affiliation: WorldPop, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.|Flowminder Foundation, Roslagsgatan 17, Stockholm SE-11355, Sweden.
authors.forename: Nick W
authors.initials: NW
authors.lastname: Ruktanonchai
authors.affiliation: WorldPop, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.|Flowminder Foundation, Roslagsgatan 17, Stockholm SE-11355, Sweden.
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zu Erbach-Schoenberg
authors.affiliation: WorldPop, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.|Flowminder Foundation, Roslagsgatan 17, Stockholm SE-11355, Sweden.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pezzulo
authors.affiliation: WorldPop, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.|Flowminder Foundation, Roslagsgatan 17, Stockholm SE-11355, Sweden.|GeoData, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tejedor
authors.affiliation: GeoData, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Ian C
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Waldock
authors.affiliation: GeoData, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Jason D
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8260-6812
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Sadler
authors.affiliation: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 440 5th Ave N., Seattle, Washington 98109, USA.
authors.forename: Andres J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.affiliation: CHICAS, Lancaster Medical School, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YG, UK.
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sedda
authors.affiliation: WorldPop, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.|Flowminder Foundation, Roslagsgatan 17, Stockholm SE-11355, Sweden.
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Tatem
mesh_terms: D019352:Censuses; D003625:Data Collection; D063426:Human Migration; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control