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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health nominated for MRS prize

CTMGH have been nominated for the Market Research Society President's Medal, awarded annually to an organisation that conduct extraordinary research but who might not be recognised through the usual channels. Our Centre is noted for its ingenious use of freely available online satellite images to gath data on the use of antibiotics in unmapped and inaccessible villages in rural Thailand and Laos. Researchers use the images to identify representative clusters of potential participants.

Satellite image of a village with settlements manually highlighted © Source: Bing Maps

The full story is available on the MRS website

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