International Partnerships
LSHTM has longstanding and extensive partnerships, especially in low and middle-income countries, working on a broad range of health issues, such as global mental health, nutrition studies and other non-communicable diseases, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other infectious diseases, as well as health service delivery and health economics. These partnerships are essential for LSHTM’s work, its research, capacity strengthening and having an impact in policy and practice. Your support of these partnerships will help ensure the future of these activities.
Diarrhoea kills more young children each year than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. The world is seriously off track in meeting the Millennium Development Goal on sanitation. This lack of progress has a profound effect on the prospects of people living in the developing world. Your support will accelerate progress on the MDG sanitation target through the generation of critical knowledge to influence policy and practice.
Maternal, reproductive and child health issues cause up to 9 million deaths a year. Our team of researchers, students and practitioners in MARCH are working to address this. Ground breaking multi-disciplinary research, into complex issues such as maternal morbidity and new born health, are ensuring that countless lives can be saved. With your support we could save even more.
East African Diploma In Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The new course is taught in Uganda and Tanzania in partnership with Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College, Makerere University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington. The course is particularly relevant to physicians working locally and is part of our commitment to strengthen capacity in the region. We are keen to raise funds to assist those who could benefit most from this programme.
Gender Violence and Health Centre
The connections between violence and women’s health have increasingly been recognised, yet the scale of the global response to gender-based violence is woefully inadequate. LSHTM’s Gender Violence and Health Centre is a multidisciplinary cross-departmental research group that works with partners around the world to conduct action-oriented, intervention-based research. Help us improve the health and well being of women and girls through funding this important work.
Barriers to effective prevention and treatment of malaria, especially amongst the poorest and most vulnerable, can only be overcome using research which cuts across traditional scientific boundaries. The LSHTM Malaria Centre brings together work from laboratory, field, economic and social sciences. Your support will ensure that this vital work can continue and develop.
