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2026-27 September entry: research topics

The programme is offering the following potential projects for the 2026/27 application round. We also encourage you to propose your own research project idea in the field of global health. The research idea should not only be novel but also capitalise on the strengths of the partnership between LSHTM and NU. If you are proposing your own idea you will need to identify supervisors in each institution who would supervise your PhD if your application is successful. Please see the "How to apply section" for further information.

Lead for each project is shown in bold. Joint PhD students are expected to be based in the lead supervisor’s home institution, i.e. either in London or in Nagasaki.

LSHTM/UK/other supervisor(s)	NU/Japan supervisor(s)	Project title
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Kate Atkins	Laura Skrip	Why don’t all HIV infections become resistant to antivirals after implementing universal test-and-treat?
Hannah Blencowe	Hiroyuki Moriuchi	Aetiological Pathways of congenital anomalies in high-burden settings: a multi-site epidemiological study
Oliver Brady	Kaja Abbas Sophearen Ith	Modelling the risk of mosquito spread and dengue emergence in the UK and Japan
Oona Campbell Zeina Jamaluddine	Lina Madaniyazi	A Palestinian refugee birth cohort: using a unique big dataset to explore the effect of climate risks on stillbirth and preterm birth
Han Fu Sandra Mounier-Jack	Laura Skrip	Modelling the role of undernutrition in measles transmission and vaccination
Katherine Horton Rein Houben	Nobuyuki Nishikiori Nobuo Saito	Improving tuberculosis screening outcome by contextual adaptation of artificial intelligence scoring of chest X-ray: Modelling national level impact on disease burden and financing
Zeina Jamaluddine Francesco Checchi Shady Elbassuoni	Miho Sato	Mobile-based dietary assessment in humanitarian settings
Kathleen O’Reilly Chris Bonell	Michiko Toizumi Akira Endo	Feasibility and effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent seasonal influenza in schools, a comparison between Japan and the UK
Kaja Abbas John Edmunds	Laura Skrip	Benefit-risk assessment, clinical trial simulation and health impact modelling of new vaccines: epidemic preparedness and predictive analytics
Hugh Sharma Waddington Shakoor Hajat	Lina Madaniyazi	Natural experiments of weather warning interventions to address compounding impacts of climate events on health: methods toolkit and application
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases
David Lawrence Joe Jarvis	Chris Smith Su Myat Han	Enhanced diagnostics to describe the epidemiology of inpatient advanced HIV disease in San Lazaro Hospital, Manila
Robert Moon	Shinya Miyazaki Osamu Kaneko	Dissection of the interaction between Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells and bone marrow cells
Meghna Ranganathan Akanksha Marphatia	Miho Sato Su Myat Han	Developing and validating trauma-Informed, community-embedded mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) models for sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) survivors in resource-constrained settings
Chris Drakeley Jane Grant	Chris Smith Osamu Kaneko	Risk education interventions to reduce Plasmodium knowlesi infections in Sabah, Malaysia
Shunmay Yeung	Greg Nishihara	Planetary Health – blue circular economy, nutrition and health
Faculty of Public Health Policy
Cherie Part Sari Kovats	Lina Madaniyazi	Advancing flood-health modelling: Multi-country evaluation of exposure metrics and diarrhoeal disease outcomes
Kai Wan Shakoor Hajat	Ramita Thawonmas Lina Madaniyazi	Heat and mental health under climate change: A comparison of impacts to inform adaptation responses in Japan and the UK
James Hargreaves	Su Myat Han Hiromu Ito Michiko Toizumi	Influence of sex work network characteristics on HIV transmission and targeting of prevention
James Hargreaves	Ryuichi Komatsu Miho Sato	Shifts in the global health architecture and health equity: a policy analysis 2-3 years after the funding crisis

Current PhD research projects 

About 20 students are currently registered in the Joint PhD Programme.  

In January 2023, Nagasaki University hold the WISE/Sakigake Symposium in Nagasaki. Most of the current students gave a talk at the symposium, and the recordings are available at the symposium website. See the list of the students and other speakers in the Symposium Programme (pdf).  

The recordings of the students’ turbo talks given at the 2022 Bridging Japan-UK Online Symposium are also available on demand (See the recording on the WISE&LSHTM-Nagasaki Joint PhD Day on 7 March 2022 on the website) 