Centres, groups and projects
Centres, groups and projects
LSHTM receives over £180 million in research funding each year and hosts a wide range of exciting and impactful health research. Our staff work in more than 100 countries, collaborating closely with external partners. Alongside 13 Centres, we also host several World Health Organization Collaborating Centres.
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Explaining trends and inequalities in cancer survival at regional, national and international level, including in socio-economic, racial and ethnic groups of the population.
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.
An NIHR research project for Cardiovascular disease risk reduction in sub–Saharan Africa (CARisSA)
Promoting skin & soft tissue infection care and preventing AA amyloidosis among people who inject drugs in the UK.
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.
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.
The Centre aims to bring together between LSHTM researchers focused on: long-term care, its interface with health systems and the impact of megatrends like climate change and migration.
Bringing together data and statistical science expertise from across LSHTM to generate new opportunities for research, training and knowledge exchange into policy and practice.
Bringing together interdisciplinary research and expertise from across the world to improve learning and prepare for future pandemics and disease outbreaks.
Improving the design and conduct of public health evaluations, and facilitating the use of robust evidence to inform policy and practice decisions.
Improving understanding of and responses to chronic conditions in low, middle and high-income country settings through research, policy and public engagement and teaching.
Strongly encourages research and collaboration fostering integration of mental health with the care of other communicable and non-communicable diseases.
Promoting and undertaking high quality research to develop and deepen historical understanding in the field of public health and health services policy.
Strengthening and promoting innovation, evaluation and evidence-based policy making by fostering communication and collaboration between researchers and policy makers.
Modelling infectious disease dynamics to improve global health.
Supporting sustainable and healthy cities, understanding and controlling infectious disease, and delivering sustainable and healthy food systems.
The CHAMNHA project investigates the effects of heatwaves and climate change on maternal and neonatal health in sub-Saharan Africa.
CHANGE seeks to develop a transdiagnostic intervention addressing mental health comorbidities (alcohol misuse, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders) among conflict-affected populations in Uganda and Ukraine.
Stakeholder engagement, chikungunya burden estimation, and vaccine impact modelling.
Bringing a public health approach to prevention of violence in childhood and adolescence, and to improving child protection internationally.
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.
This project explores the intersection between Children, Cities and Climate Change and has three primary aims:
- To model the potential co-benefits to child and adolescent health that could arise from changes to the construction and design of cities
- To understand young people’s views about their cities and
- To collate and share through a diverse range of channels our research findings and young peoples’ visions for healthy cities of the future.
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.
Addressing the health impacts of climate variability and climate change, and protecting UK public health through adaptation and mitigation actions.
The Climate/MentalHealth project brings together international collaborators undertaking an ambitious programme of study of the impacts of climate change on wellbeing in women, adolescents and children.
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.
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.
Research for policy reform on international disease control in Southeast Asia and beyond.
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.
Exploring pathways to intimate partner violence prevention and developing methodology to evaluate gender transformative programmes.
CONTAGIO is a global consortium of researchers working to develop rapid response tools for future disease outbreaks. The project consists of five work packages (WP), two of which feature LSHTM research: WP1 (cohort preparedness platform) and WP2 (harmonized approaches to data collection and analysis).
Understanding how family, peer, school and community contexts affect children’s experience of violence in adolescence and early adulthood.
Homes are upgraded in response to climate change with consequences for people’s health. We establish best practice for scaling up our knowledge about health impacts by using anonymised, administrative data.
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.
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.
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.
Driving clinical & biomedical research to improve the recognition, diagnosis and treatment of ME/CFS.