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 and capacity strengthening to improve epidemic preparedness.

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.

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.

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

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