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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

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

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

The Campylobacter Resource Facility uses genome-based technologies such as next-generation sequencing, microarrays and mutants to study the pathogenesis of this microorganism.

Genomics
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
Ethics
Health care policy
Health inequalities
Worldwide
United Kingdom
East Asia
Europe
Ireland
Demography
Epidemiology
Medicine
Statistics
PROJECT

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

Addiction
Substance use
Mixed methods
Hygiene
Bacteria
London
United Kingdom
Public health
Social Sciences
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
Qualitative methods
Quantitative methods
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
Methodology
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
Implementation research
Mixed methods
Non-communicable diseases
Social and structural determinants of health
Europe
LMICs
South America
Sub-Saharan Africa
Worldwide
Cardiovascular disease
Epidemiology
Health services
Health Systems Research
Social Sciences
GROUP

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

Mental health
Global 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
Public health history
Research : policy relationship
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

Statistical and methodological expertise to strengthen research capacity in epidemiology, public health and policy.

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
Heatwaves
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
Health promotion
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
Violence prevention
Education
Mixed methods
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
Environment
Planetary Health
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.

Cardiovascular disease
United Kingdom
England
Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
Clinical trials
GROUP

The Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world renowned centre of excellence in the design, conduct, analysis and reporting of clinical trials.

Cardiovascular disease
Disability
Injuries
Clinical trials
Critical care
Evaluation
Maternal health
Systematic reviews
Worldwide
Epidemiology
Medicine
Statistics
GROUP

Preparing, maintaining and promoting systematic reviews for the prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of traumatic injury, including the emergency resuscitation of seriously injured and burned patients.

PROJECT
AMR
Antimicrobial resistance
Health policy
Southeast Asia
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
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
Health promotion
Violence prevention
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.

Violence
Adolescent health
Child health
Gender
Ethics
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

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