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MRC Unit The Gambia — Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems

Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

HDB-0184

Three integrated HDSS platforms (Farafenni since 1981, West Kiang since 2005, Basse since 2007) operated by a major UK research unit in The Gambia, covering multiple districts with decades of longitudinal demographic and health data. The systems serve as platforms for field research on disease control, nutrition, vaccines, and public health interventions.

Category

Open dataset

Access

Credentialed

Region

Africa — Gambia

Coverage

Three districts across rural Gambia; longitudinal from 1981

License / terms

MRC/LSHTM data sharing policy

Data types

vital events, demographics, health outcomes, clinical

HDSS longitudinal demographic vaccine research malaria

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Record HDB-0184 · last verified 2026-08-06 · listed in Open datasets

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