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Centres, groups and projects

With research grant income of more than £180 million per year, LSHTM is home to a large number of exciting and impactful research activities. We have a global presence with staff conducting research in more than 100 countries and we are deeply committed to working in collaboration with external partners. We are also home to four designated World Health Organization Collaborating Centres.

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PROJECT

Adapting a complex violence prevention intervention.

Eastern Africa
PROJECT

Reconstructing Africa’s demographic past. Exploring new sources, methods and technologies to uncover long-term population trends.

Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
PROJECT

The Afya Consortium for research on public health threats in populations affected by crises: a multi-disciplinary, collaborative research programme

Capacity Building
Covid-19
Data analysis
Global health
Reproductive health
Sub-Saharan Africa
Data science
Epidemiology
Global health
Infectious Diseases
Mixed Methods
GROUP

How does agriculture affect health? Besides its impact on diets and nutrition, changing agricultural landscapes and food systems can have major effects on the transmission of human infectious diseases. We study these interactions and welcome other LSHTM researchers and collaborators to join us in this exciting work.

Vector borne disease
AMR
Antibiotic resistance
Zoonotic disease
Malaria
Worldwide
LMICs
Western Africa
Southeast Asia
Eastern Africa
Malaria
AMR
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Entomology
GROUP

Broadening the evidence base on HIV epidemiology for informing policy, strengthening the analytical capacity for HIV research, and fostering collaboration between network members.

HIV/AIDS
Non-communicable diseases
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Reproductive health
Surveillance
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Bioinformatics
Demography
Epidemiology
Life-course epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
GROUP

Website dedicated to research on the African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei.

Molecular biology
Microbiology
PROJECT

AMBITION (High Dose AMBISOME on a Fluconazole Backbone for Cryptococcal Meningitis Induction Therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: A Randomised Controlled Non-inferiority Trial) is a four-year project funded at just under €10M by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, the Swedish International Development Agency and the DFID/MRC/Wellcome Trust Joint Global Health Trials Fund. It runs from 1 January 2017 – 31 December 2020 across a consortium of five European and six African partners.

Meningitis
HIV/AIDS
Clinical trials
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
PROJECT

The AMRnet project aims to develop a data-visualisation dashboard that makes genome-derived antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data accessible to a wide range of stakeholders including policy makers.

Antibiotic resistance
Data analysis
Epidemiology
Infectious disease
Public health
Genomics
Infectious disease policy
Public health
Surveillance
United Kingdom
Low and Middle Income Countries
AMR
Bioinformatics
Data science
Epidemiology
Genomics
GROUP

The Anthropological Approaches to Global Health group (AAGH) brings together a team of medical anthropologists conducting innovative research on a variety of topical challenges in global health

GROUP

We provide a forum for discussion, research dissemination, and building new research collaborations between researchers within LSHTM who associate themselves with this discipline.

Health policy
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Medicine
Ethnography
PROJECT

We develop perspectives on antimicrobial resistance that draw from social theories about medicines, care, technologies, infrastructures, global arrangements on health, multi-species interactions, futures and more.

Infectious disease
Drug resistance
Health systems
Social and structural determinants of health
Worldwide
Anthropology
Ethnography
PROJECT

The Anti-fibrinolytics Trialists Collaboration (ATC) is an international collaboration to conduct individual patient data meta-analyses of results from randomised trials of anti-fibrinolytics versus placebo.

Clinical trials
PROJECT

Fresh approaches to the study of antimicrobials in society.

Infectious disease
Behaviour change
Drug resistance
Health systems
Social and structural determinants of health
Eastern Africa
Southeast Asia
Anthropology
Ethnography
History
Medicine
Sociology
Centre

Inspiring innovation in AMR research through interdisciplinary and international engagements. 

AMR
Antibiotic resistance
Infectious disease
Disease control
Drug resistance
LMICs
Worldwide
Clinical research
Epidemiology
Genomics
Microbiology
Social Sciences
GROUP

The Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents’ Study (APCAPS) is a prospective inter-generational cohort that has been incrementally built through long-term follow-up of a nutrition trial (1987-90) in Telangana, south India.

Chronic disease
Diabetes
Environment
Cardiovascular disease
Urbanisation
Ageing
Environmental health
India
South Asia
Epidemiology
Development studies
Demography
Life-course epidemiology
Cardiovascular disease
PROJECT

Ayurveda for Promoting Recovery In Long COVID (APRIL) is a randomised trial examining whether a traditional Indian herbal medicine benefits adults suffering with long-term symptoms of COVID-19 (Long COVID) in the UK.

Covid-19
Long COVID
Herbal medicines
Ayurveda
Clinical trials
UK
Clinical research

B

GROUP

A general framework for behaviour change programming, founded in the latest behavioural science and design thinking.

Behaviour change
Evolutionary psychology
Design thinking
Public health
Marketing
PROJECT

Using Big Data to Identify Opportunities for Disease Prevention after Cancer.

Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Mental health
Non-communicable diseases
Electronic health records
England
United Kingdom
Europe
Epidemiology
PROJECT

BHF PROTECT-TAVI is a research study examining the effect of cerebral embolic protection devices on the risk of stroke in patients undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation for aortic stenosis. 

Cerebral Embolic Protection
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
United Kingdom
England
Wales
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiology
Clinical trials
PROJECT
HIV/AIDS
Diagnostics
Zambia
Southern Africa
Epidemiology
GROUP

State-of-the-art facility to analyse and assess a variety of key medicinal drugs (notably antimalarials, antiretrovirals and antimicrobials) as formulations, in patient samples, and insecticides on fabrics.

PROJECT

Understanding drivers of global brain health using diverse data 

Dementia
Epidemiology
Infectious disease
Mental health
Neurological diseases
Ageing
Electronic health records
Epidemiology
Global mental health
Inequalities
London
PROJECT

Former England rugby players are taking part in a major study to investigate the sport's effects on brain health.

Dementia
Neurological diseases
Rugby
Sport
Concussion
Ageing
Occupational health
Physical activity
Epidemiology

C

PROJECT

A platform to support policymakers and researchers working on the economics of COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). 

Covid-19
Infectious disease policy
LMICs
Economics
Economics and statistics
GROUP

Explaining trends and inequalities in cancer survival at regional, national and international level, including in socio-economic, racial and ethnic groups of the population.

Cancer
Non-communicable diseases
Chemotherapy
Health systems
Health care policy
Health inequalities
Worldwide
United Kingdom
East Asia
Europe
Ireland
Demography
Epidemiology
Medicine
Statistics
PROJECT

Looking into existing data from ongoing cohort to explore how social norms and attitudes towards violent experiences affect the relationships between violence and various health, education, labour and biomarker outcomes. 

Violence
Children
Violence
PROJECT

Promoting skin & soft tissue infection care and preventing AA amyloidosis among people who inject drugs in the UK.

Addiction
Hygiene
Bacteria
London
United Kingdom
Public health
Social Sciences
PROJECT

The Catch-up Screen project offers Human Papillomavirus (HPV) urine testing as a tool for cervical screening among women aged 60-79 who ceased from the NHS Cervical Screening Programme without a primary HPV test.

Cancer
Epidemiology
Human papillomavirus
UK
Epidemiology
PROJECT

The Causes And MEchanisms foR non-atopic Asthma in children (CAMERA) study will investigate the causes of non-atopic asthma and also investigate three possible mechanisms of non-atopic asthma in four settings.

Asthma
Adolescent health
Child health
Brazil
Uganda
Epidemiology
Centre

Bringing together data and statistical science expertise from across LSHTM to generate new opportunities for research, training and knowledge exchange into policy and practice.

Data analysis
Health policy
Methodological development
Missing data
Social sciences
Electronic health records
Health impact analysis
Statistical methods
Data science
Bioinformatics
Electronic patient records
Genomics
Modelling
Centre

Bringing together interdisciplinary research and expertise from across the world to improve learning and prepare for future pandemics and disease outbreaks.

Covid-19
Emerging and Pandemic diseases
Infectious disease
Public health
Outbreaks
Low and Middle Income Countries
South America
Southeast Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Worldwide
Global health
Mathematical modelling
Policy and Health Systems
Social science
Centre

Improving the design and conduct of public health evaluations, and facilitating the use of robust evidence to inform policy and practice decisions. 

Accountability
Behaviour change
Data analysis
Implementation research
Methodological development
Complex interventions
Evaluation
Impact evaluation
Randomised controlled trials
Worldwide
Development studies
Health Systems Research
Operational research
Programme evaluation
Qualitative evaluation
Centre

Improving understanding of and responses to chronic conditions in low, middle and high-income country settings through research, policy and public engagement and teaching.

Cardiovascular disease
Covid-19
Diabetes
Multimorbidity
Non-communicable diseases
Complex interventions
Social and structural determinants of health
Europe
LMICs
South America
Sub-Saharan Africa
Worldwide
Cardiovascular disease
Epidemiology
Health services
Health Systems Research
Social Sciences
PROJECT

The J&J Satellite Centre for Global Health Discovery at LSHTM is focused on advancing the development of drug regimens for the treatment of tuberculosis to counter the threat from AMR.

AMR
Tuberculosis
Bacteria
Drug discovery and development
Drug resistance
Low and Middle Income Countries
United Kingdom
Worldwide
AMR
Bacteriology
Tuberculosis
GROUP

Strongly encourages research and collaboration fostering integration of mental health with the care of other communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Mental health
Mental Health
GROUP

Promoting and undertaking high quality research to develop and deepen historical understanding in the field of public health and health services policy. 

Alcohol and drug use
Behaviour change
Health policy
HIV/AIDS
Public health
Health policy
Health systems
NHS
Nigeria
North America
South America
UK
Worldwide
History
Centre

Strengthening and promoting innovation, evaluation and evidence-based policy making by fostering communication and collaboration between researchers and policy makers.

Adolescent health
Child health
Malnutrition
Schools
Violence against women
Adolescent health
Child health
Maternal health
Neonatal health
Reproductive health
LMICs
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
United Kingdom
Worldwide
Epidemiology
Global health
Nutrition
Policy and Health Systems
Research
Centre

Modelling infectious disease dynamics to improve global health.

Covid-19
Emerging and Pandemic diseases
Infectious disease
Decision analysis
Immunisation
Infectious disease policy
Modelling
Outbreaks
Worldwide
Geospatial modelling
Immunoepidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Mathematics
Phylogenetics
Centre

Supporting sustainable and healthy cities, understanding and controlling infectious disease, and delivering sustainable and healthy food systems.

PROJECT

The CHAMNHA project investigates the effects of heatwaves and climate change on maternal and neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa.

Maternal and newborn health
Climate Change
Burkina Faso
Kenya
Sub-Saharan Africa
Europe
Epidemiology
Social science
Evaluation
Risk Assessment
Climate science
PROJECT
GROUP

Bringing a public health approach to prevention of violence in childhood and adolescence, and to improving child protection internationally.

Behaviour change
Capacity Building
Disability
Implementation research
Mental health
Adolescent health
Child health
Reproductive health
Social and structural determinants of health
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Uganda
Tanzania
Worldwide
Anthropology
Development studies
Epidemiology
Economics
Public health
PROJECT

CCSS-Z is a mixed-methods study that works with partners in Zimbabwe to support the design and intervention of a child safeguarding intervention in Catholic Primary schools. The study consists of qualitative research being conducted alongside the development of the intervention, a process evaluation, and an impact evaluation.

Violence
Schools
Child protection
Zimbabwe
Child protection
Behaviour change
Zimbabwe
Sub-Saharan Africa
Social Epidemiology
Social Sciences
PROJECT

This project explores the intersection between Children, Cities and Climate Change and has three primary aims:

  1. To model the potential co-benefits to child and adolescent health that could arise from changes to the construction and design of cities
  2. To understand young people’s views about their cities and
  3. To collate and share through a diverse range of channels our research findings and young peoples’ visions for healthy cities of the future.
Adolescent health
Child health
Climate Change
Environment
Planetary Health
Adolescent health
Child health
Climate change
Community empowerment
Global health
Health
Public health
Research
PROJECT

CHIP-BCIS3 (Controlled trial of High-risk coronary Intervention with Percutaneous left ventricular unloading) is a research study investigating whether a heart pump improves the safety and effectiveness of high-risk coronary artery stenting procedures.

United Kingdom
England
Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Clinical trials
GROUP

The LSHTM Clinical Trials Unit is accredited by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration. We conduct high-quality, high-impact trials in the UK and internationally.

Public health
Cardiovascular disease
Global health
Injuries
Methodological development
Maternal health
Emergency care
Randomised controlled trials
Sexual behaviour
UK
Nigeria
Pakistan
Zambia
Cardiovascular disease
Clinical trials
Population health
Statistics
PROJECT

The CDRG conducts research on the effects of unhealthy commodities, and on the tactics used by their manufacturers. It also researches the misinformation strategies used by harmful industries.

Misinformation
NCDs
Policy analysis
Social determinants of health
GROUP

Group of eye health organisations from several Commonwealth countries working together to deliver an exciting, integrated, five-year programme of fellowships, research and technology which aims, over the long-term, to strengthen eye health systems and quality of eye care throughout the Commonwealth.

Blindness
Diabetes
Eye diseases
Non-communicable diseases
Health care policy
Health sector development
Health services research
Health systems
Eye health
Worldwide
Opthalmology
GROUP

Research for policy reform on international disease control in Southeast Asia and beyond.

PROJECT

Exploring pathways to intimate partner violence prevention and developing methodology to evaluate gender transformative programmes.

Methodological development
Intimate partner violence
Schools
Adolescent health
Co-production
Evaluation
Complex interventions
Gender
Mexico
Programme evaluation
Social Sciences
Global health
Health services
PROJECT

Understanding how family, peer, school and community contexts affect children’s experience of violence in adolescence and early adulthood.

Adolescent health
Child health
Gender
Eastern Africa
Epidemiology
PROJECT

The COSMIC project uses system dynamic and agent-based modelling to better understand how health systems function and respond to health programmes, such as payment for performance schemes. 

Payment for performance
Health systems
Tanzania
Zambia
Health economics
System dynamics and agent-based modelling
Social Sciences
PROJECT

UK-wide study explores how Covid is impacting young people (aged 15-25) over time. We are investigating how Covid experiences, including Long Covid, intersect with health, wellbeing, inequalities, and futures.

 

Social sciences
Covid-19
Equity
UK
PROJECT

The COVID-19 Surveillance Intensification Ghana Network is a multidisciplinary team working to improve tracking of the COVID-19 epidemic in Ghana and support response efforts.

Covid-19
Ghana
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
Genomics
GROUP

Driving clinical & biomedical research to improve the recognition, diagnosis and treatment of ME/CFS.

Chronic disease
Disability
Neurological diseases
Clinical trials
Diagnostics
Physical activity
Social and structural determinants of health
Europe
Epidemiology
Genetics
Immunology
Virology

D

PROJECT

Dagu aims to develop Ethiopian excellence in public health evaluation and improve quality and utilisation of primary and community-based health care services.

Ethiopia
Eastern Africa
GROUP

The DCMG aims to become the world-leading centre of excellence in evaluating methods for improving data collection in global health research.

Missing data
Epidemiology
Public health
Data analysis
longitudinal research
Methodology
Worldwide
PROJECT

Seeking to measure and solve the mystery of a kidney disease epidemic which is leading to the premature deaths of thousands of young people in low and middle income countries.

Southern Africa
South Asia
South America
North America
GROUP

Participatory research to promote health and equity

Adolescent health
Complex interventions
United Kingdom
Worldwide
Ethnography
Psychology
Sociology
GROUP

The Disability Research Group at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, conducts research to improve the health, development and quality of life of people with disabilities in East Africa. 

Disability
Public health
Inclusive community development
Rehabilitation
Uganda
PROJECT

The Disease Control Priorities 3 (DCP3) UHC Country Translation is a multi-year project, designed to respond to the increasing need of low and middle-income countries for technical guidance and support in priority setting and in accelerating progress towards Universal Health Coverage.

Global health
Capacity Building
Health Policy and Planning
Universal Health Coverage
Economic evaluation
Health care financing
Low and Middle Income Countries
Pakistan
Global health
Health economics
PROJECT

Evaluating the impact of the Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) Partnership

Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
PROJECT

The purpose of this project is to map the geographical distribution of resistance mutations in African Plasmodium falciparum malaria.

E

PROJECT

The Ebola vaccine projects – EBOVAC1, EBOVAC2, EBODAC and EBOMAN – are a series of trials and associated projects which aim to assess a novel prime-boost preventive vaccine regimen against Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

Emerging and Pandemic diseases
Infectious disease
Zoonotic disease
Clinical trials
Drug discovery and development
Immunisation
Vaccines
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Europe
Tanzania
Kenya
Anthropology
Immunology
Mathematical modelling
Vaccinology
GROUP

A diverse team capitalising on research opportunities offered by routinely collected data, bringing methodological rigour to provide real-world evidence for important questions regarding human health.

Asthma
Cancer
Cardiovascular disease
Mental health
Non-communicable diseases
Electronic health records
Worldwide
Epidemiology
Pharmacoepidemiology
Statistics
PROJECT

Combining high quality reproducible parasite drug sensitivity tests and genomics to detect malaria drug resistance and support antimalarial drug policy in West Africa

PROJECT

The Erythema Nodosum Leprosum International STudy (ENLIST) group is an international partnership between seven countries focused on improving the understanding and treatment of Erythema nodosum leprosum (ENL).

Eastern Africa
South Asia
Southeast Asia
South America
PROJECT

The Entebbe Mother and Baby Study (EMaBS) is a unique birth cohort, on-going in Africa.

Eastern Africa
GROUP

The Environment and Health Modelling Lab creates and applies cutting-edge statistical methods to understand the interactions between climate change, environment and human health.

Methodological development
Public health
Climate Change
Modelling
Statistical methods
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
Statistics
Public health
Data science
GROUP

The focus for the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s work on water, sanitation, hygiene and health.

PROJECT

This project investigates how Brazil’s national programme for improving primary care access and quality has affected inequalities in the financing and delivery of primary care.

Payment for performance
Health systems
UK
Brazil
Health economics
Social Sciences
PROJECT

Effect of Remote Ischaemic Conditioning on clinical outcomes in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (ERIC-PPCI).

PROJECT

Research question: how effective and cost-effective is emergency surgery for patients with common acute conditions presenting as emergency admissions to NHS hospitals.  

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of surgery
Health policy
London
UK
Economics
Statistics
PROJECT

This project worked collaboratively with researchers at LSHTM and academics and researchers in Yemen to estimate mortality in Yemen employing a range of novel methods.

Mortality
Yemen
Epidemiology
GROUP

ZIKAlliance is a multinational and multi-disciplinary research consortium comprised of 53 partners worldwide and coordinated by Inserm, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research.

Animal disease
Emerging and Pandemic diseases
Infectious disease
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Vector borne disease
Health services research
Clinical trials
Reproductive health
Organisational research
Perinatal health
Worldwide
South America
Southeast Asia
Biochemistry
Pathology
Vector biology
Immunoepidemiology
Virology
PROJECT
GROUP

Developing disease, behavioural and economic models to assess whether and how to intervene to improve global health.

PROJECT

Piloting and evaluating a tool to help LSHTM and our partners establish strong foundations and equitable processes for our research partnerships.

Evaluation
Organisational research
LMICs
UK
PROJECT

African ecosystems are highly vulnerable to climate change, with implications for health. This project will build evidence for a Planetary Health approach to policy making in Sub Saharan Africa.

Climate Change
Health policy
Kenya
Africa
Implementation research
Development
GROUP

This interdisciplinary group applies the theoretical framework of evolutionary biology to human demographic behaviour.

Adolescent health
Child health
Gender
Health inequalities
Social and structural determinants of health
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Europe
Worldwide
Anthropology
Demography
Life-course epidemiology
Psychology
Sociology

F

PROJECT

Working closely together with government policymakers and food system stakeholders, including farmers, retailers and consumers, the FACE-Africa project aims to jointly generate evidence to inform climate change adaptation strategies in food systems.

Food systems
Nutrition
Agriculture
Environmental sustainability
Resilience
Nutrition
Climate change
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
The Gambia
West Africa
PROJECT

FIEBRE aims to reveal leading causes of fever in sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia. What are the main infections causing fever in children and adults, and how should they be treated?

Fever
Non-malarial fever
Febrile illness
Infectious disease
Drug resistance
Diagnostics
Bacteria
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Southeast Asia
Southern Africa
Anthropology
Ethnography
Bacteriology
Epidemiology
PROJECT

The Forms of Care project ethnographically examined practices of 'not doing' in UK palliative and end-of-life care practice, and how these may be an active and valuable form of care.

Non-interventions
Not-doing
Palliative care
ethnography
Palliative care
London
Medical Anthropology
Social science
PROJECT

G

PROJECT

Understanding the mechanistic pathways of extreme heat and poor pregnancy outcomes to develop evidence-based and sustainable interventions.

Climate Change
Maternal and newborn health
Planetary Health
Newborn health
Climate change
Maternal health
Newborn health
The Gambia
UK
GROUP

An inter-disciplinary research group with expertise on violence against women, violence against children, violence against men, violence among same-sex people, migration, labour exploitation and human trafficking. A WHO Collaborating Centre since 2019. 

Violence
Behaviour change
HIV/AIDS
Gender
Migration
Sexual health
Sexual behaviour
Worldwide
Social Sciences
Epidemiology
Health economics
Medical Anthropology
GROUP

The GPC facilitates population-based research on diseases of public health importance in Uganda and the wider region, and vital demographic data on changing patterns of ill health in sub-Saharan Africa.

Medical research council
HIV
Epidemiology
Diabetes
Kyamulibwa
Entebbe
Uganda
Masaka
Medicine
Health
Science
PROJECT

Investigating genetic mechanisms underlying attractiveness of humans to mosquitoes.

Vector control
Malaria
Worldwide
Entomology
Genetics
Vector biology
GROUP

The Global Asthma Network was established in 2012 to improve asthma care globally, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries, through enhanced surveillance, research collaboration, capacity building and access to quality-assured essential medicines.

PROJECT

Eye Health is essential to Child Health. We work to ensure that all children are getting access to eye health services to ensure they have the best vision possible.

Eye diseases
Child health
Eye health
Tanzania
India
Eastern Africa
South Asia
Public health
Health services
Centre

A world-leading group working on a diverse portfolio of health economics research, with work ranging from developing innovative methods and empirical research to policy engagement and impact.

Economics
Health economics
GROUP

An independent group of influential experts with a commitment to tackling global challenges in food and nutrition security.

PROJECT

Supporting government and partners in strengthening health systems for better mental health of Syrian refugees and host communities in Lebanon.

GROUP

Improving governance in the real world to strengthen health systems

H

PROJECT

Developing surveillance and research in Eastern Ethiopia to improve maternal and child health.

Infectious disease
Emerging and Pandemic diseases
Child health
Maternal health
Neonatal health
Surveillance
Vaccines
Eastern Africa
Epidemiology
Anthropology
Medicine
GIS/Spatial analysis
PROJECT

Former football players are taking part in a major study to investigate effects of the sport on brain health.

Concussion
Dementia
Football
Neurological diseases
Sport
Ageing
Occupational health
Physical activity
Epidemiology
GROUP

We are a group of over 50 staff with internationally recognised expertise in a wide range of disciplines including health economics, policy analysis, public health, epidemiology and social science.

GROUP

The Health Equity Action Lab is an international team of infectious disease epidemiologists and public health researchers dedicated to building a more just society.

Social determinants of health
Health Policy and Planning
Public health
Maternal health
Worldwide
Epidemiology
Health policy
Sociology
Social Policy
GROUP

High-impact research on health financing to improving health service delivery and equity in low and middle-income countries

Centre

Promoting research, education and knowledge translation to improve health and health equity in populations affected by humanitarian crises.

Covid-19
Data analysis
Global health
Outbreaks
Public health
Natural disasters
Public health
Central America
East Asia
LMICs
South America
Sub-Saharan Africa
Global health
Mathematical modelling
Policy and Health Systems
Research
Social science
GROUP

The HPP Debated blog offers news, comment and analysis on the latest research published in Health Policy and Planning.

HIV/AIDS
Infectious disease
Malaria
Non-communicable diseases
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Health care policy
Health inequalities
Health services research
Health systems
Worldwide
Policy analysis
Social Policy
GROUP

Presenting the health systems research being undertaken by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine as well as listing relevant teaching programmes, resources and events.

Cardiovascular disease
Human papillomavirus
Malaria
Mental health
Tuberculosis
Health care financing
Health care policy
Health systems
Worldwide
Anthropology
Economics
History
Policy analysis
Political science
GROUP

Strengthening health systems through evidence-based and interdisciplinary research

GROUP

The overarching purpose of this award is to provide an intellectual and policy history of ‘health systems’ thinking.

Health care policy
Health services research
Health systems
Worldwide
History
GROUP

Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Interest Group aims to promote research and awareness on preventing and controlling infections in healthcare settings. Dedicated to improving healthcare patient, staff and visitor outcomes through interdisciplinary collaboration, implementation research, evidence-based practices and research dissemination.

Hospital acquired infection
Infectious disease
Public health
Hygiene & Sanitation
Antibiotic resistance
Behaviour change
Hygiene
Surveillance
Africa
Europe
Asia
Worldwide
America
AMR
Epidemiology
Infectious Diseases
Microbiology
Public health
PROJECT

The UNITAID/PSI HIV Self-Testing Africa (STAR) Project is a four-year initiative to catalyse the market for HIV self-testing.

HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Clinical trials
Diagnostics
Economic evaluation
Health care policy
Southern Africa
Malawi
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Economics
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
PROJECT

Evaluating the impact of Peer Advocates on the use of health care for adults in London who are homeless.

Homeless health
Homelessness
Emergency care
London
Epidemiology
Health economics
PROJECT

This study aims to contribute to the development and implementation of a controlled human infection model for schistosomiasis that can be used to test innovative and early proof-of-concept candidate schistosomiasis vaccines.

Human infection studies
Schistosoma mansoni
Uganda
Health
Vaccine development
Controlled human infection
GROUP

Our facility is open to the whole scientific community to study the human malaria parasites and their relationship with mosquito vectors.

Infectious disease
Malaria
Vector borne disease
Vector control
United Kingdom
London
Entomology
Infectious Diseases
Vector biology
Parasitology

I

PROJECT

We are focused on improving outcomes for people with kidney and cardiovascular disease in the UK.

Non-communicable diseases
Multimorbidity
Health services
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
PROJECT

IDEAS aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice.  Working in Ethiopia, North-Eastern Nigeria and the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, IDEAS uses measurement, learning and evaluation to find out what works, why and how in maternal and newborn health programmes.

Child health
Maternal health
Ethiopia
South Asia
Nigeria
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Economics
Epidemiology
Statistics
PROJECT

An NIHR Global Health Research Group for Improving Hypertension Control in Rural sub-Saharan Africa (IHCoR-Africa)

Cardiovascular disease
Hypertension
Global health
Non-communicable diseases
Disease burden
Complex interventions
Kenya
The Gambia
West Africa
East Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Cardiovascular disease
Epidemiology
Health Systems Research
Clinical trials
PROJECT

Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) is a five-year programme which will accelerate progress on tools, data and capacity needed to guide evidence-based policy in agriculture-food systems, nutrition and health.

PROJECT

IMPALA is a phase 3, randomised, open-label clinical trial testing the effectiveness of the novel 2-monthly injectable long-acting (LA) antiretroviral therapy (cabotegravir LA plus rilpivirine LA) compared to continuation of daily oral antiretroviral therapy in people with a history of sub-optimal HIV control in sub-Saharan Africa.

Health
HIV
HIV/AIDS
Quality of care
Health outcomes
Quality of life
Uganda
South Africa
Kenya
Africa
Clinical trials
Health
Medicine
PROJECT

IMPALA is a phase 3, randomised, open-label clinical trial testing the effectiveness of the novel 2-monthly injectable long-acting (LA) antiretroviral therapy (cabotegravir LA plus rilpivirine LA) compared to continuation of daily oral antiretroviral therapy in people with a history of sub-optimal HIV control in sub-Saharan Africa.

HIV/AIDS
Health
HIV
Quality of care
Health outcomes
Quality of life
Uganda
South Africa
Kenya
Africa
Clinical trials
Health
Medicine
GROUP

IMPRESS investigates whether enhanced management practices can improve newborn survival and the quality of clinical care in hospitals in Malawi.

Hospital management
Quality of care
Newborn health
Health systems
Newborn health
Impact evaluation
UK
Malawi
Health economics
Management science
PROJECT

Investigating quality improvement in general practices – what do they do and how do they do it? A survey of GPs and Practice Managers.

Organisational research
Health services research
United Kingdom
Management
PROJECT

Improving Hospital Opioid Substitution Therapy (iHOST): implementation and assessment of an intervention to reduce late presentations, discharges against medical advice and repeat admissions among people who use opioids.

Public health
Social sciences
Addiction
Behaviour change
Health policy
Complex interventions
Health services research
UK
Health
Mixed Methods
Mixed methods evaluation
Social science
Policy and Health Systems
PROJECT

The IMPULSE study aims to improve newborn routine data quality and use in high mortality settings for Every Newborn to survive and thrive.

Neonatal
Neonatal health
Maternal health
Central African Republic
Ethiopia
Tanzania
Uganda
Global health
Routine health information systems
Health Systems Research
Data science
GROUP

Academic research group describing and explaining regional and socio-demographic differences in cancer outcomes, to influence policy and improve outcomes for all.

Cancer
Data analysis
Missing data
Methodological development
Health inequalities
Health systems
Health care policy
Health outcomes
UK
Europe
Southern Africa
Eastern Africa
Japan
Epidemiology
Statistics
Public health
Data science
PROJECT

INTEGRATE seeks to use evidence from routinely collected electronic health record data to inform and evaluate healthcare guidance, to maximise benefits for the health of the population.

Epidemiology
Data analysis
Primary care
Health economics
Implementation research
Epidemiology
Health inequalities
Health services research
Implementation research
Qualitative methods
UK
GROUP

Developing tools, techniques and evidence about disability, leading to scalable interventions for public health and development.

GROUP

The International Centre for Eye Health is a research and education group working to improve eye health and eliminate avoidable visual impairment and blindness, with a focus on low-income populations.

Eye diseases
Blindness
Trachoma
Eye health
Worldwide
Opthalmology
GROUP

Facilitating the development, evaluation and implementation of accessible, quality assured in-vitro diagnostics for global health, through information sharing and advocacy.

PROJECT

This mixed-method study combines a four-wave longitudinal quantitative design with qualitative interviews to explore the predictors of intimate partner violence in Mwanza, Tanzania. 

Intimate partner violence
longitudinal research
Violence against women
Violence against women and girls
Mwanza, Tanzania
Social Epidemiology
Sociology
PROJECT

The Invisible Girls research programme aims to raise the visibility and voices of child domestic workers in Southeast Asia. This programme is designed to generate intervention-focused evidence to guide programming and policies that promote a brighter future for child domestic workers, and ultimately reduce children’s engagement as domestic workers.  

Child domestic work
Child labour
Child labour
Complex interventions
Southeast Asia
Myanmar
Intervention evaluation
Implementation science

K

PROJECT

Kilgoris (Masai for ‘Unstable’ to describe the ever-changing nature of HIV-1) is a clinical study that investigates the ability of the human body to control the amount of free Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1) early in infection without antiretroviral drugs.

HIV
Uganda
Epidemiology
Immunology
Microbiology

L

PROJECT

LAMP4Yaws is a multi-country EDCTP-funded project, assessing the real-life accuracy of a new diagnostic test in yaws-endemic areas of Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon, to support WHO’s yaws eradication strategy.

Neglected Tropical Diseases
Cameroon
Cote D’Ivoire
Ghana
Diagnostics
PROJECT

Developing evidence-led actions for financing primary healthcare in LMICs.

Health policy
Health Policy and Planning
Primary health care
Health care financing
Health care policy
Health policy
Primary health care
Worldwide
Health economics
Health Systems Research
Policy and Health Systems
GROUP

LASER combines expertise in the fields of spatial statistics and GIS technology, quantitative epidemiology and operational research to build the evidence-base around diseases of poverty and the communities they affect.

Infectious disease
Malaria
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Vector borne disease
Clinical trials
Evaluation
Health impact analysis
Worldwide
Eastern Africa
Middle Africa
Southern Africa
Western Africa
Epidemiology
GIS/Spatial analysis
Operational research
Statistics
GROUP

Promoting best practice in learning and teaching through educational research (to join, contact Anna Foss).

PROJECT

A project with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and University of Gondar to develop Ethiopian institutional capacity for public health and health system research focussing on women’s and children’s health.

Public health
Capacity Building
Implementation research
Maternal health
Ethiopia
Implementation research
Health Systems Research
PROJECT

Exploring the potential of communities and social norms to prevent violence against and exploitation of children and adolescents.

Violence
Behaviour change
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
HIV/AIDS
Sexual behaviour
Sexual health
Gender
Tanzania
Uganda
Social Sciences
PROJECT

Investigating the best use of liver transplantation to treat patient’s with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

GROUP

Our research group is focussed on the discovery, evaluation and implementation of novel interventions for the control vector borne diseases, from basic scientific studies in the laboratory understanding vector-host-pathogen interactions, to large scale field trials.

GROUP

Collaborating with leading scientists from Germany, UK, and further afield to conduct, and promote discussion around, cutting-edge research on global health issues including migration, gender, health equity and health systems.

Social sciences
Health policy
Public health
Global health
Berlin
Germany
Europe
Global health
Anthropology
Political science
GROUP

With one of the largest groupings of Neglected Tropical Diseases researchers, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is internationally recognised as a leading centre for NTD research. The NTD Network is designed to make it easier for you to find and access that expertise.

M

GROUP

Network for the use of drones for malaria vector control.

GROUP

Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling of health, health policy or broader policy with implications for health

GROUP

Violence, mental health, biological changes to the immune system and HIV risk: a three-year mixed-method, longitudinal study with 1000 women in Nairobi, Kenya

Violence
Mental health
Alcohol and drug use
HIV
Nairobi
Kenya
Epidemiology
Immunology
Social science
Centre

Providing the authoritative academic voice on malaria.

GROUP

The Malaria Reference Laboratory (MRL) provides laboratory reference and diagnostic parasitology of malaria, and surveillance data on all imported malaria reported in the UK.

Malaria
Diagnostics
GROUP

MEIRU, formerly known as Karonga Prevention Study (KPS), has been making major research contributions to the understanding and control of long-term conditions, including HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and common mental health conditions in rural Karonga and urban Lilongwe, to complement its continuing research on infectious diseases.

Infectious disease
HIV/AIDS
Cardiovascular disease
Diabetes
longitudinal research
Sub-Saharan Africa
Malawi
Epidemiology
Demography
Population health
GROUP

The Maternal Health Group in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiolgy was created in 1989 and expanded in 2015 to include the Newborn Health and Stillbirth Team at LSHTM.

GROUP

We conduct multidisciplinary research on the role of the private and public health sectors in delivering maternal and reproductive health care.

Maternal health
Private sector
Reproductive health
Health care financing
Health systems
South Asia
Uganda
Senegal
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Epidemiology
Anthropology
Health economics
Programme evaluation
Demography
PROJECT

To better understand the mortality burden of antimicrobial resistance in low and middle income countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

AMR
Antibiotic resistance
Disease burden
LMICs
Sub-Saharan Africa
West Africa
East Africa
Southern Africa
Epidemiology
Microbiology
AMR
GROUP

Staff and research degree students in Department of Global Health and Development conducting interdisciplinary social science research to strengthen the health, wellbeing and voice of people affected by humanitarian crises.

Anthropology
Political science
Health Systems Research
Health economics
Social Epidemiology
PROJECT

Evaluating the impact of a multi-component menstrual health intervention in Ugandan secondary schools on girls’ education, health, and wellbeing.

Adolescent health
Behaviour change
Hygiene & Sanitation
Mental health
Schools
Adolescent health
Complex interventions
Uganda
East Africa
Clinical trials
Epidemiology
GROUP

We are an interdisciplinary group seeking to support collaborative research on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Research Network and its dissemination at LSHTM and partners.

PROJECT

Our research aims to develop new guidance for systematic reviewers when making a decision about whether or not to use a meta-analytical approach to the synthesis of quantitative evidence, with a particular emphasis on the synthesis of studies of complex interventions.

GROUP

MaPs in ENL is the largest international multicentre randomised clinical trial on ENL treatment ever to be conducted in six leprosy referral centres in five countries.

Neglected Tropical Diseases
Bangladesh
Ethiopia
India
Indonesia
Nepal
Research
PROJECT

A research collaboration addressing pressing issues facing health systems globally and at a national level in South Africa – the impacts of and response to migration and its intersection with gender.

GROUP

This site exists to support researchers from the social and medical sciences with the analysis of incomplete datasets, and as a focus of statistical research in this area.

Missing data
Multiple imputation
Economic evaluation
Electronic health records
Worldwide
Statistics
Clinical trials
Economics
Epidemiology
Education
PROJECT

MONKEYBAR is a project seeking to identify risk factors and control strategies for Plasmodium knowlesi, a zoonotic malaria carried by macaques.

Southeast Asia
GROUP

Collaborating with international research partners to improve health in low and middle-income countries.

HIV/AIDS
Infectious disease
Malaria
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Tuberculosis
Adolescent health
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Western Africa
Epidemiology
GIS/Spatial analysis
Statistics
PROJECT

The International Statistics and Epidemiology Partnership aims to define and implement a sustainable strategy to expand capacity in applied medical statistics in sub-Saharan Africa.

Capacity Building
Epidemiology
Co-production
Mathematical Modelling
Equity
Capacity strengthening
Sub-Saharan Africa
Global
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
Statistics
Mathematical modelling
PROJECT

Evaluating the impact of the MTV Shuga mass media campaign. Centred around a TV drama, the campaign is designed to improve the sexual health of young people.

Adolescent health
Health policy
Health Policy and Planning
Adolescent health
Economic evaluation
Randomised controlled trials
Sexual behaviour
Phnom Penh
South America
Mixed Methods
Psychology
Public health
GROUP

MITU’s mission is to contribute to improving health through the development and evaluation of interventions against HIV and other health problems.

HIV/AIDS
Clinical trials
Health policy
Tanzania
Eastern Africa

N

GROUP

The Nairobi Early Childcare in Slums (NECS) study is building an understanding of the early childhood development in Nairobi slums, with a particular focus on the informal childcare sector.

Child health
Children
Covid-19
Public health
Child health
Public health
Kenya
Education
Health
Health policy
Research
PROJECT
Europe
United Kingdom
PROJECT

Revealing the changing sexual attitudes and behaviour of the British population, Natsal is one of the largest scientific studies of sexual health and lifestyles in the world.

Adolescent health
Reproductive health
Sexual behaviour
Sexual health
Europe
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
GROUP

LSHTM undertakes evaluations and implementation research with partners from academic institutions, key UN agencies and leading NGOs, focussing on the delivery, effectiveness and strengthening of primary level NCD care in humanitarian settings.

Non-communicable diseases
Diabetes
Hypertension
Primary care
Cardiovascular disease
Quality of care
Health services
Implementation research
Mixed methods evaluation
Qualitative research
Costing
Health services
PROJECT

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from UK, Uganda and Kenya aiming at identifying structural, modifiable determinants of impaired vaccine impact in vulnerable communities and develop integrated strategies to address them.

GROUP

The NIHR Health Protection Research Unit is a collaborative partnership delivering research to support vaccination services in the UK.

PROJECT

The NIHR Public Health PRU (PH-PRU) conducts public health research with a social determinants focus.

PROJECT

The NIHR School for Public Health Research is a collaborative partnership between nine leading academic centres in England. We work with policy and practice colleagues to deliver high quality research.

Public health
Capacity Building
Health Policy and Planning
Social determinants of health
Policy analysis
Public health
Social and structural determinants of health
England
Public health
Health policy
Health services
Research
Health Systems Research

O

PROJECT

The Obuntu Bulamu randomized control trial is a four-year research study conducted across 20 primary schools in Wakiso and Masaka districts of Uganda. It seeks to investigate the impact of Obuntu Bulamu project interventions between 2017-2019 on participation, inclusion, and quality of life of 200 children with disabilities.

Disability
Adolescent health
Uganda
Population health
PROJECT

There is a mystery epidemic of Chronic kidney disease of unknown cause (CKDu) affecting agricultural and non-agricultural communities in Mesoamerica. This disease has reduced the life expectancy of thousands and caused the deaths of tens of thousands young males and females.

Central America
PROJECT

Open Data Kit is a suite of state of the art electronic data capture tools.

Clinical trials
Electronic health records
Mobile technologies
Surveillance
Worldwide
PROJECT

A UK cohort study that aims to measure the impact of long COVID upon quality of life, and on costs to the NHS and the wider economy.

Long COVID
Covid-19
Health economics
Social determinants of health
Quality of life
UK
Epidemiology
Health economics
Electronic patient records
PROJECT

The OPT-SMC project supports national malaria control programmes in West and Central Africa to conduct implementation research on Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention by providing grants and technical assistance, and facilitates sharing of information and expertise between countries. The project is a partnership between the national malaria control programmes in 13 countries.

PROJECT

ORCA aims to improve the quality of health data in Ethiopia by supporting analysts  at the Ministry of Health, Ethiopia.

Malaria
Tuberculosis
Data analysis
Public health
Maternal health
Neonatal health
Health systems
Eastern Africa
Nutrition
Epidemiology
Public health

P

PROJECT

Advancing healthcare knowledge through patient and public involvement.

PROJECT

The Pathfinder Initiative, funded by the Wellcome Trust with support from the Oak Foundation, supports rapid progress towards a healthy, zero-carbon society.

Climate Change
Environment
Planetary Health
Economics
London
UK
Research
PROJECT

Patients’ views are essential to achieving high-quality healthcare. Our PROMs research is helping to improve patient care by evaluating the performance of health care providers and guiding NHS reforms.

GROUP

The PAVE team are an anthropological led team including social scientists, political theorists, epidemiologists, and modellers. Working in an innovative cross-disciplinary approach we address two public health problems: violence and epidemics and the intersections between them. 

Outbreaks
Violence
Global health
Sierra Leone
Uganda
DRC
India
Tanzania
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Modelling
Public health
Political Theory
PROJECT

PENDA is consortium lead by the International Centre for Evidence in Disability, it is focused on creating evidence to achieve long-term improved wellbeing and inclusion of people with disabilities in Low and Middle Income Country's (LMICs), through building knowledge, people and tools.

PROJECT
PROJECT

Investigating the effectiveness of different treatments for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.  

Effectiveness of treatments for type 2 diabetes mellitus
Health policy
London
UK
Economics and statistics
PROJECT

PIC4C Scale-up is a collaborative implementation research project to inform and support scale up of the Primary Health Integrated Care project for Chronic Conditions in Kenya and beyond. 

Chronic disease
Cardiovascular disease
Diabetes
Integrated care
NCDs
Implementation science
Evaluation
Kenya
Mixed methods evaluation
Health economics
Operational research
Qualitative research
Epidemiology
PROJECT

Pilot RCT of a complex violence prevention intervention.

Behaviour change
Implementation research
Mental health
Child health
Adolescent health
Complex interventions
Clinical trials
Uganda
Eastern Africa
Epidemiology
Public health
Social science
Anthropology
Psychology
PROJECT

This project is funded by a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities New Investigator Award, awarded to Dr Alex Mold in 2013 and is based in the Centre for History in Public Health at the LSHTM.

Addiction
Cancer
Infectious disease
Non-communicable diseases
Obesity
Behaviour change
Social and structural determinants of health
Physical activity
Europe
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
History
Policy analysis
Social Policy
Sociology
GROUP

The Policy Innovation and Evaluation Research Unit (PIRU) brings together leading health and social care expertise to improve evidence-based policy-making and its implementation across the National Health Service, social care and public health.

NHS
Complex interventions
Evaluation
Health services research
Health systems
England
Policy analysis
Social Policy
GROUP

Researching health at the interface of economics and politics

PROJECT

A major study in South Africa and Zambia to test a new approach to the prevention and control of HIV in Africa.

HIV/AIDS
Tuberculosis
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Evaluation
Southern Africa
South Africa
Zambia
Economics
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Social science
Phylogenetics
GROUP

PHI-Lab uses insights from epidemiology, economics, sociology and geography to understand and change the social, economic and environmental system drivers of population health.

Public health
Obesity
Environment
Public health
UK
Europe
Health economics
Epidemiology
Data science
Qualitative research
GROUP

The Population Studies Group (PSG) is engaged in the measurement and explanation of population trends and in the evaluation of attempts to modify them.

Chronic disease
HIV/AIDS
Infectious disease
Non-communicable diseases
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Adolescent health
Evaluation
Reproductive health
Social and structural determinants of health
Surveillance
Worldwide
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
South Asia
Anthropology
Demography
Epidemiology
Life-course epidemiology
Statistics
PROJECT

How people respond to vaccines, and how well they work, varies between populations.  POPVAC’s goal is to understand these differences in order to identify strategies of improving vaccine effectiveness. 

Adolescents
Children
Vaccinations
Uganda
Immunology
Neglected tropical diseases
Malaria
Tuberculosis
PROJECT

Our trial evaluates Positive Choices, a whole-school social-marketing intervention to promote sexual health across 50 secondary schools in England.

Abortion
Adolescent health
Adolescents
Schools
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Adolescent health
Evaluation
Sexual behaviour
Sexual health
England
Education
Economics
Health
Implementation research
Realist Evaluation
GROUP

Power and Protection is home to original films, archival material, and resources about the history of the Court of Protection in England and Wales, and the evaluation of ‘mental capacity’.

Mental health
Disability
Dementia
Health policy
Older people's health
United Kingdom
History
Law
PROJECT

The Praziquantel in Preschoolers trial (PIP) aims to find the right treatment dose of praziquantel for preschool children living with intestinal schistosomiasis in Uganda.

Eastern Africa
PROJECT

Training teachers on emotional self-regulation and positive discipline to prevent and reduce violence against children in schools in Nyarugusu refugee camp.

Tanzania
Eastern Africa
Economics
PROJECT

A randomised double-blind controlled phase III study to compare the efficacy and safety of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose with placebo in patients with anaemia undergoing major open abdominal surgery.

GROUP

Brings together researchers, providers and policymakers working on PHC in all settings; to identify opportunities to build collaborations, support shared learning and strengthen knowledge in this area.

Primary health care
Primary health care
Health services
Health systems
Worldwide
Health services
Health Systems Research
Policy and Health Systems
GROUP

Studying private healthcare provision – how it works, how to improve it and where it fits in universal health care

PROJECT

Developing an evidence base and platform for action around how violence in childhood and adolescence affects child labour, participation in skills programmes and employment outcomes in Uganda. 

Violence
Adolescent health
Child health
Child labour
Adolescent health
Child health
Child labour
Uganda
Eastern Africa
Epidemiology
Public health
Social science
PROJECT

Protecting children with disabilities.

Disability
Mental health
Child health
Adolescent health
Social and structural determinants of health
Uganda
Malawi
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Epidemiology
Public health
Social science
Anthropology
Psychology
GROUP

The Policy Research Unit in Commissioning and the Healthcare System (PRUComm) provides evidence to the Department of Health to inform the development of policy in the National Health Service. We focus on maximising outcomes for patients.

NHS
Evaluation
Health services research
Health systems
Europe
England
Economics
Policy analysis
Management
Political science
Social Policy
PROJECT

Understanding, developing, and advocating for the arts and humanities within public health research, training, and practice.

Public health
Public health
London
UK
Worldwide
GROUP

The Public Health Research Consortium (PHRC) brings together senior researchers from 11 UK institutions in a new integrated programme of research, with the aim of strengthening the evidence base for interventions to improve health, with a strong emphasis on tackling socioeconomic inequalities in health.

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PROJECT

We will map and assess governance practices for vaccination services in a range of humanitarian responses; and identify recommendations for equitable vaccination delivery, with a focus on zero-dose communities.

Global health
Governance
Public health
Primary health care
Policy analysis
Vaccinations
Child health
Low and Middle Income Countries
Sudan
Somalia
Global health
Health policy
Health Systems Research
PROJECT

The rapid mortality mobile phone surveys (RaMMPS) project is a new initiative to conduct mortality surveillance through mobile phone surveys in settings where alternative data are not available or where data collection has been interrupted because of epidemic outbreaks or other crisis situations.

Covid-19
Methodological development
Outbreaks
Surveillance
DRC
Low and Middle Income Countries
Malawi
Mozambique
Burkina Faso
Demography
Global health
Population health
Data science
PROJECT

REACH aims to describe the impact and costs of weather extremes on maternal and child health services to support preparedness at the district, facility and community levels in Brazil and Zambia.

Child health
Health economics
Climate Change
Child health
Decision analysis
Environmental health
Health care financing
Zambia
Brazil
PROJECT

Research capacity strengthening and knowledge generation to support preparedness and response to humanitarian crises and epidemics.

Western Africa
PROJECT

This project aims to assess the performance of e-pharmacies in India and Kenya and analyse regulatory systems for improving medicine quality, safety and accessibility.

Quality of care
Medicines
Health policy
Mixed methods
Private sector
Kenya
India
LMICs
PROJECT

A Consortium of institutions and individuals coming together to promote research on the impact of health and nutrition on the development, wellbeing, and education of school children and adolescents. 

Adolescent health
Child health
Children
Economics
Schools
Child health
Education
Health economics
Nutrition
Public health
Social Policy
PROJECT

The Resilience Against Future Threats through vector control (RAFT) Research Programme Consortium (RPC) aims to address a range of urgent issues on mosquito-borne diseases, including insecticide resistance and emerging threats.

Malaria
Vector-borne disease
Vector control
Dengue
Emerging and Pandemic diseases
Disease control
Economic evaluation
Vector control
Sub-Saharan Africa
Southeast Asia
South Asia
Central America
Low and Middle Income Countries
Vector biology
Malaria
Entomology
Epidemiology
Neglected tropical diseases
PROJECT

Improving health systems responsiveness to neglected health needs of vulnerable groups in Ghana and Vietnam.

Health policy
Health Policy and Planning
Maternal health
Health services
Vietnam
Ghana
Low and Middle Income Countries
Southeast Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Qualitative research
Social Sciences
Mixed Methods
Realist Evaluation
Health Systems Research
GROUP

The Resilient and Responsive Health Systems (RESYST) is an international research consortium that aims to enhance the resilience and responsiveness of health systems to promote health and health equity and reduce poverty.

PROJECT

Our MRF funded initiative aims to change outbreak and humanitarian policy and practice approaches and guidelines to improve engagement with communities and frontline health responders.

Global health
Capacity Building
Emerging and Pandemic diseases
Risk Communication and Community Engagement
Outbreaks
Sierra Leone
Sub-Saharan Africa
Global
Community empowerment
Health Systems Research
Public health
Infectious Diseases
Primary health care
PROJECT

Multicentre prospective randomised open controlled trial aiming to evaluate the efficacy and safety of percutaneous coronary intervention compared to optimal medical therapy alone for ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction.

PROJECT

Exploring infidelity, romantic jealousy and intimate partner violence.

Intimate partner violence
Behaviour change
Gender
Sexual behaviour
Sexual health
Social Sciences

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PROJECT

A randomised controlled trial of an intervention delivered by mobile phone messaging to reduce sexually transmitted infections (STI) by increasing sexual health precaution behaviours in young people.

S

PROJECT

The project aims to characterise global antibody targets during a controlled (and natural) human schistosomiasis infection among endemic populations.

Schistosomiasis life cycle
Uganda
Parasitology
Immunology
PROJECT

The Schools Infection Survey (SIS) is a flagship study investigating the role of schools in the spread of COVID-19 and how transmission within and from schools can be minimised. 

Covid-19
Schools
Adolescent health
Public health
Children
Epidemiology
England
Epidemiology
Infectious Diseases
Immunoepidemiology
Population health
Health
PROJECT

The Sustainable Evaluation through Analysis of Routinely Collected HIV data (SEARCH) is a collaboration between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the Ministries of Health in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia, and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
PROJECT

Using participatory stakeholder elicitation, health economic modelling, and multi-criterion decision analysis to rank antimicrobial stewardship interventions from a One Health perspective in England, Senegal and Denmark.

AMR
Global health
Health economics
Planetary Health
Economic evaluation
Epidemiology
England
Senegal
Denmark
AMR
Global health
Health economics
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
PROJECT

National evaluation of the health and social impacts of selective licensing for private rented housing in England

Public health
Housing
Health inequalities
Evaluation
England
United Kingdom
GROUP

Strengthening health service delivery and quality of care through high-impact, interdisciplinary research.

PROJECT

Our LSHTM team are conducting a multidisciplinary study using participatory, community-driven approaches to obtain evidence for improving sexual health services among older adults and informing relevant policy recommendations.

Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Older people's health
Sexual behaviour
Sexual health
United Kingdom
China
Public health
GROUP

SHARE contributes to achieving universal access to effective, sustainable and equitable sanitation and hygiene by generating evidence to improve policy and practice worldwide.

Neglected Tropical Diseases
Malnutrition
Diarrhoeal diseases
Disability
Infectious disease
Behaviour change
Hygiene
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Southeast Asia
Anthropology
Engineering
Epidemiology
Policy analysis
PROJECT

Working in partnership across five institutions, we conduct multi-disciplinary research in Ghana and Ethiopia to improve experiences of severe and stigmatising neglected tropical diseases of the skin.

Neglected Tropical Diseases
Dermatology
Complex interventions
Implementation science
Ghana
Ethiopia
Epidemiology
Economics
Anthropology
Clinical research
GROUP

We are a group of multidisciplinary academics working on a diverse portfolio of epidemiology research, largely focused on skin disease.

GROUP

SNMP is a set of tailored programmes on the theory and application of social norms in research and programme development through comprehensive training and mentorship.

Child protection
Mixed Methods
PROJECT

SORT will assess inequalities in receipt of cancer treatments and the relative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of curative surgery versus radiotherapy for three types of cancer (lung, oesophageal and bladder).

Cancer
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of surgery
Non-communicable diseases
Data analysis
Health inequalities
Economic evaluation
Electronic health records
England
Epidemiology
Health economics
Statistics
Data science
GROUP

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and facilitated by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, SPEAK India brings together researchers and technical experts alike, with an aim to develop a consensus on the additional knowledge required to ensure VL transmission is successfully interrupted and elimination is sustained.

Infectious disease
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Vector borne disease
Health systems
Surveillance
Vector control
India
South Asia
Entomology
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Operational research
Parasitology
PROJECT

SPRING for MDG’s (Sustainable Program Incorporating Nutrition and Games)  is a seven year research programme funded by the Wellcome Trust that brings together researchers from the UK, India and Pakistan.

South Asia
GROUP

SSACAB brings together African and Northern academic and research institutions to develop and improve biostatistical skills among researchers.

Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Southern Africa
Middle Africa
Statistics
GROUP

Cross-faculty and cross-disciplinary group to promote STI research conducted at LSHTM

Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
PROJECT

The NIHR Global Health Research Centre for Non-Communicable Disease Control in West Africa is part of the NIHR and hosted by LSHTM and the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons

NCDs
Non-communicable diseases
Global health
Chronic disease
Capacity Building
Public health
Evaluation
Social and structural determinants of health
Impact evaluation
Ghana
Burkina Faso
Low and Middle Income Countries
Sub-Saharan Africa
Research
Policy and Health Systems
Health Systems Research
Implementation research
Policy analysis
PROJECT
PROJECT

200 million people still live in trachoma-endemic regions and are at risk of becoming blind despite concerted international effort to tackle the disease. With the clock ticking towards the 2020 elimination goal, novel strategies are urgently needed to accelerate and strengthen the SAFE strategy.

Trachoma
Eye diseases
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Infectious disease
Behaviour change
Clinical trials
Hygiene
Sanitation
Vector control
Ethiopia
Eastern Africa
Entomology
Epidemiology
Genomics
Mathematical modelling
Social science
PROJECT

Recognising that people with psychosocial disabilities are best positioned to define their own needs, SUCCEED is co-producing the design and evaluation of community-based interventions for people with psychosis in Africa.

Co-production
Mental health
Inclusion
Africa
Psychosocial disabilities
Inclusive community development
Nigeria
Malawi
Sierra Leone
Zimbabwe
Mental Health
PROJECT

Sudan Research Group is a collaboration between humanitarian and public health academics, and Sudanese youth researchers and volunteers.

Public health
Sudan
Africa
Public health
Population health
Health policy
Community empowerment
Development
PROJECT

We are assessing how UK funding to Support the National Malaria Programme in Nigeria is affecting change.

PROJECT

This research project aims to improve surgical services for women with urinary incontinence in England.

Europe
United Kingdom
PROJECT

SHEFS is a programme aiming to provide policy makers with novel, interdisciplinary evidence to define future food systems policies that deliver nutritious and healthy foods in an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable manner.

PROJECT

We conduct formative research into the health and wellbeing needs and priorities of host communities in which around 30 Anglo-American mines are situated, in eight countries.

PROJECT

A participatory evaluation of how UK charity National Ugly Mugs – a community-based violence prevention and support service – affects sex workers’ safety and mental health. 

Evaluation
Mixed methods
UK
PROJECT

A five-year programme of research and evaluation funded by the UK Department of International Development (DFID). SWiFT assesses, evaluates and informs the International Labour Organisation’s DFID-funded “Work in Freedom” multi-country intervention to minimise women’s vulnerability to labour trafficking in South Asia and the Middle East.

Behaviour change
Implementation research
Missing data
Capacity Building
Migration
Gender
Behaviour change
South Asia
India
Public health
Health services
Social Sciences
Social Policy
Programme evaluation

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PROJECT

The Taiwan-UK SGS Health Research Network (TUSHRN) aims to further research on the health of sex, gender and sexuality (SGS) minorities in Taiwan and the UK.

Sex
Gender
Sexuality
Health
Taiwan
United Kingdom
Health
Social science
Quantitative research
Qualitative research
GROUP

Improving public health research in Tanzania through joint research and capacity-building, including through better communications and networking for LSHTM staff, students, and alumni in Tanzania.

Eastern Africa
Centre

Providing a focus for global research expertise in tuberculosis epidemiology, immunology, diagnosis and treatment.

Diagnostics
Global health
Infectious disease
Public health
Tuberculosis
Diagnostics
Disease burden
Disease control
Vaccines
LMICs
South America
Southeast Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Worldwide
Diagnostics
Epidemiology
Health economics
Mathematical modelling
Policy and Health Systems
GROUP

The TB Modelling Group uses mathematical models to better understand the natural history and epidemiology of tuberculosis, and to improve the contribution of modelling to policy decisions and implementation.

Tuberculosis
Africa
Asia
America
Europe
Worldwide
Mathematical modelling
GROUP

Boosting big data expertise and applying genomic technologies across LSHTM.

Genomics
Genomics
PROJECT

Co-Create is a project designed to reduce obesity and its co-morbidities by working with adolescents, to create, inform and disseminate obesity-preventive, evidence-based policies, using a complex systems approach.

PROJECT

The DE-grading Epidemiology (DEEP) Network has been formed to encourage open debate about the use of algorithms to assess epidemiological studies, and maintain contacts between those of us who are working on these issues. It will pursue strategies to improve our ability to methodically and accurately integrate and interpret epidemiologic evidence.

PROJECT

The value and unexpected by-product of a community engagement strategy aimed at addressing the immunisation gap in north-west Ethiopia.

Infectious disease
Child health
Evaluation
Immunisation
Vaccines
Eastern Africa
Ethiopia
Programme evaluation
Qualitative evaluation
Public health
Health services
PROJECT

The Global Vector Hub is an open access, interactive resource. It has the capacity to transform vector research and vector control programmes, and to revolutionise our preparedness and ability to respond quickly and effectively to vector-borne disease outbreaks, around the world.

PROJECT

Reducing violence in Ugandan primary schools.

Behaviour change
Implementation research
Mental health
Child health
Adolescent health
Complex interventions
Clinical trials
Uganda
Eastern Africa
Epidemiology
Public health
Social science
Anthropology
Psychology
GROUP

The Health Research Unit Zim (THRU ZIM) at the Biomedical Research and Training Institute conducts research aimed at improving health and wellbeing across the life-course. We focus on public health issues of relevance to Zimbabwe and the African region. Our research group is multidisciplinary and collaborates with a range of local and international academic institutions, so that we can access the expertise to conduct research to the highest standards.

Southern Africa
PROJECT

The HPRU in Environmental Change and Health provides research to support decision making relating to the impacts and responses to the environmental changes that affect our health. 

Climate Change
Health policy
Public health
Environment
Climate change
Housing
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
Public health
Research
GROUP

Addressing the major nutrition and food-related problems that affect human development and well-being, at national and global levels.

Diarrhoeal diseases
HIV/AIDS
Malnutrition
Non-communicable diseases
Obesity
Maternal health
Neonatal health
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Western Africa
Europe
South Asia
Epidemiology
Life-course epidemiology
Nutrition
PROJECT

The O2O Project explored the potential of online networks to initiate social norms change about family planning in offline communities in Nairobi, Kenya during COVID-19.

Sexual health
Sexual behaviour
Gender
Nairobi
Kenya
Mixed Methods
GROUP

Collecting data to understand reproductive health and experiences in England.

Reproductive health
Health policy
Inequalities
Public health
England
PROJECT

M. tuberculosis is a leading cause of meningitis in people living with HIV. Currently, over 50% of cases die and many survivors are left disabled. Finding better diagnostics and optimised treatments is a priority.

PROJECT

The SACHA Study team have been funded by the National Institute for Health Research to gather information which will help health services and systems in the UK to shape abortion care for the future. 

Abortion
Reproductive health
United Kingdom
Public health
PROJECT

SIPP is a mixed methods interdisciplinary evaluation of an intervention to reduce health harms and enhance service engagement among people who use crack cocaine in England.

Public health
Social sciences
Methodological development
Harm reduction
Complex interventions
UK
Health
Mixed Methods
Mixed methods evaluation
Social science
Realist Evaluation
PROJECT

Exploring young people’s sexual practices in the UK.

Europe
United Kingdom
GROUP

Global trials aiming to reduce maternal mortality due to postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) using tranexamic acid (TXA).

Maternal health
Reproductive health
Medicines
Clinical trials
Health services
Health policy
PROJECT

This collaborative research project, funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, examines the experiences of young people with sickle cell as they transition to adulthood and move from using child to adult services.

GROUP

THRiVE’s mission is to empower African Institutions to become research engines for health innovations and evidence-based healthcare practices and policies.

Capacity Building
Training Programme
Health sector development
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Western Africa
Tanzania
Uganda
Education
PROJECT

Tight K is a study investigating whether maintaining serum potassium levels at ≥3.6 mEq/L is non-inferior to maintaining at ≥4.5 mEq/L on the occurrence of new onset atrial fibrillation dysrhythmia post-surgery in patients undergoing isolated CABG surgery

Cardiovascular disease
Clinical trials
United Kingdom
PROJECT

This website is created to facilitate an informal network for researchers using the Test-Negative-Design (TND) for studying the causes of COVID-19 infection. We will create a repository of papers about the use of the TND, and for questionnaires for use in TND studies of the causes of COVID-19.

Covid-19
Epidemiology
Epidemiology
PROJECT

The TREATS project (Tuberculosis Reduction through Expanded Antiretroviral Treatment and Screening for active TB) will measure the impact of a combined TB and HIV intervention – of population level active case-finding for TB, combined with universal testing and treatment for HIV -- on TB incidence, prevalence and incidence of infection when delivered to the entire population of 14 urban, high-prevalence communities in South Africa and Zambia.

Southern Africa
GROUP

An interdisciplinary network of trial managers, clinical research associates, data managers, epidemiologists, statisticians and practitioners with an interest and expertise in randomised controlled trials methods and delivery working across LSHTM and its partners.

Infectious disease
Child health
Adolescent health
Non-communicable diseases
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Clinical trials
Clinical research
Clinical guidelines
Evidence use
Randomised controlled trials
UK
Low and Middle Income Countries
Africa
Clinical trials
Clinical research
Health economics
PROJECT

The effect of early tranexamic acid administration on mortality, hysterectomy, and other morbidities in women with post-partum haemorrhage: an international, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

U

PROJECT

A specialist team ready to respond to disease outbreaks around the world before they develop into health emergencies. The team also conducts rigorous operational research to improve epidemic preparedness.

Outbreaks
Implementation research
Diagnostics
Hygiene & Sanitation
Vector control
Worldwide
Operational research
Epidemiology
Anthropology
Virology
GIS/Spatial analysis
PROJECT
Tuberculosis
Hospital acquired infection
Behaviour change
Design thinking
Implementation research
Health services research
Public health
Social and structural determinants of health
Infectious disease policy
South Africa
Southern Africa
Public health
Health services
Mathematical modelling
Social Sciences
GROUP

We explore how formal and informal structures and practices in health systems interact with the socio-political context to undermine accountability and encourage corruption in Malawi and Nigeria, and ask how to overcome them.

Corruption
Accountability
Governance
District health systems
Nigeria
Malawi
Policy analysis
PROJECT

A unique multi-disciplinary collaboration of five leading research institutions in Africa and Europe seeking to inform HIV prevention technologies for African women and girls through behavioural science.

Behaviour change
HIV
Africa
Europe
PROJECT

We use Shigella infection to discover new roles for the cytoskeleton in host defence, and use zebrafish to study the cell biology of infection in vivo.

PROJECT

Investigating whether dogs could be trained to identify unique odours associated with coronavirus infection

PROJECT

Understanding and preventing sexual and other forms of violence against children in Zanzibar.

Behaviour change
Implementation research
Mental health
Child health
Adolescent health
Complex interventions
Clinical trials
Tanzania
Eastern Africa
Epidemiology
Public health
Social science
Anthropology
Psychology

V

Centre

Bringing together research from vaccine design and immunological characterisation through clinical trials to epidemiological evaluation, safety, economic, social science and policy analysis.

GROUP

Using model-based drug development methods (PK/PD) to accelerate vaccine dose decision making.

PROJECT

Together for Girls and LSTHM co-created a course to support early career researchers in LMICs to conduct research with VACS data and communicate their findings to policymakers in their respective countries.

Violence
Children
Violence
PROJECT

Qualitative study to understand reasons for the low maternal vaccine uptake in London and inform the co-production of future health interventions, policy and practice.

Primary health care
Public health
Social determinants of health
Covid-19
Influenza
Health services research
Maternal health
Primary health care
Vaccinations
United Kingdom
UK
England
London
Qualitative research
Health
Health services
Programme evaluation
Public health
PROJECT

The purpose of VITALITY trial is to establish whether supplementation with vitamin D and calcium optimises musculoskeletal health among peripubertal children with HIV in Zimbabwe and Zambia.  

This is the first RCT to investigate this intervention to improve bone health in HIV children. 

PI: Prof Rashida Ferrand (LSHTM/ Biomedical Research & Training Institute (BRTI), Harare)

Funder: EDCTP

Adolescent health
Child health
HIV
Zimbabwe
Adolescent health
Child health
Clinical trials
Nutrition
Sub-Saharan Africa
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Clinical trials

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PROJECT

The is a joint project between the LSHTM and the Natural History Museum (London) providing live schistosome life-cycle stages and their intermediate snail hosts for schistosomiasis research purposes.

Schistosomiasis life cycle
UK
Malacology
GROUP

We aim to recruit and train the best young clinical and non-clinical scientists with an interest in global health research, to provide them with the support, training and academic environment they need to develop into independent researchers, and to facilitate their academic and clinical career progression. 

Eye diseases
HIV/AIDS
Infectious disease
Non-communicable diseases
Tuberculosis
Child health
Eye health
Health systems
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Southern Africa
South America
South Asia
Epidemiology
Immunology
Medicine
Opthalmology
Parasitology
PROJECT

LSHTM is one of eight WHO Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Collaborating Centres worldwide. This Centre is closely aligned with LSHTM’s Sexually Transmitted Infections Research Interest Group (STIRIG), which is made up of more than 50 cross-Faculty, interdisciplinary LSHTM researchers and students conducting research on sexual health and STIs. The Centre works with the WHO Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programme (HHS), the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), and a network of international collaborators on activities to improve the prevention, control and management of STIs worldwide.

Chlamydia
Gonorrhoea
Herpes
Syphilis
HIV
Infectious Diseases
PROJECT

The WOMAN trial, coordinated by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) is an international clinical trial of the effect of tranexamic acid on death, hysterectomy and other maternal outcomes, in women with PPH.14.

PROJECT

The World AsthmaPhenotypes Study (WASP) aims to better understand and characterise different sub-types (phenotypes) of asthma.

Asthma
GROUP

Our lab is in the Department of Infection Biology (DIB) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) where we research the molecular mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and utilise bacteria as biotechnologies for the production of glycoconjugate vaccine candidates against bacterial infectious diseases of global relevance.

Infectious disease
Animal disease
Antibiotic resistance
Zoonotic disease
Bacteria
Vaccines
London

Z

PROJECT

A multinational and multidisciplinary consortium implementing critical research on the existing Zika virus outbreak whilst preparing a sustainable response capacity for future emerging epidemics in Latin America.

Vector borne disease
Worldwide
Epidemiology
PROJECT

The Zipime Weka Schista! (Do self-testing sister!) study aims to integrate multi-pathogen home self-sampling for genital infections including female genital schistosomiasis, HPV, HIV and STI to increase case-detection for girls and women of reproductive age.

Female genital schistosomiasis
HIV
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Human papillomavirus
Adolescent health
Field epidemiology
Zambia
Diagnostics
Epidemiology
Health economics