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Assane holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Namur in Belgium and has research interests focusing on spatial epidemiology, health geography, and population modelling. He has worked extensively in Senegal, where his doctoral research concentrated on health inequalities in the capital city, Dakar. He is part of the team responsible for coordinating and providing technical assistance for the 2013 population housing census in the southern portion of Senegal. Currently, he works as a Research Fellow in the Worldpop Research Group within the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, focusing on population modelling aimed at producing high-resolution population data for countries with low and middle incomes. His population estimates are crucial for estimating the population risk of specific diseases, assessing vulnerabilities, and deriving health development goal indicators useful for development organisations in low- and middle-income countries.