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Taiwan-UK SGS Health Research Network (TUSHRN)

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

The Confronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth (Co-Create)

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.

The DE-grading Epidemiology (DEEP) Network

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.

The Fifth Child Project

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

The Global Vector Hub

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.

The Good Schools Study

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

The NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health

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

The O2O Project

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

The RifT Study - improving diagnosis and treatment of TB meningitis

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.

The SACHA Study - Shaping Abortion for Change

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

The SIPP (Safe Inhalation Pipe Provision) study

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

The sixteen18 project

PROJECT

Exploring young people’s sexual practices in the UK.

Europe
United Kingdom

This Sickle Cell Life

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.

Tight K

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

TND: The test-negative design for COVID-19

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

TREATS Project

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

TXA

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.