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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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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