Our research contributes to health policy and practice in the UK and around the world.
These case studies demonstrate the positive impacts of research conducted by LSHTM staff and their research partners in recent years, and how these support our mission improving health worldwide.
Clinical medicine
- Prevention of epidemic meningitis in Africa
- Smartphone technology for innovative targeted treatment of poor vision and blindness
- Vaccination to reduce the global burden of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and pneumonia in communities
- Preventing newborn mortality due to syphilis
- Eliminating trachoma via azithromycin
- Repurposing tranexamic acid as a life-saving treatment for severe bleeding
Public health, health services and primary care
- Informing the UK response to COVID-19
- Controlling Ebola in West Africa: innovative and pragmatic solutions for a major epidemic
- Uncovering and addressing gaps in care for adolescents with HIV
- Making HIV self-testing available to millions as a diagnostic strategy for low- and middle-income countries
- Methods for malaria control: evaluation of vector control products to improve personal and community protection from malaria
- Lay health worker interventions to treat mental health disorders
- New methods to review deaths and improve quality of care in the NHS
- Generating data and solutions to save newborn lives
- Developing a new seasonal approach to malaria prevention in children
- Prioritising and addressing the health needs of human trafficking survivors
- Using mathematical modelling to inform policy decisions on vaccination
- Shaping public health strategies by monitoring and building public trust in vaccines
- Saving lives and money: encouraging male circumcision to prevent HIV
- The Zika virus emergency: informing the international response
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Clinical medicine
- Eliminating blinding trachoma through single dose treatment
- Evaluating drugs and devising strategies for reducing malaria transmission
- Exploitation of virus-like particles for vaccinology and the development of safe efficacious Bluetongue virus vaccine
- Improving methodologies for the detection and identification of malaria parasites in human blood
- Miltefosine for the treatment of leishmaniasis
- Preventing newborn mortality due to syphilis
- Strategies to combat future emergence and spread of antimalarial drug resistance
Public health, health services and primary care
- Cancer survival: impact on cancer control policy in England
- Controlling the hepatitis B virus in Africa and preventing unnecessary expenditure
- Developing a new approach to malaria prevention in children: seasonal malaria chemoprevention in West Africa
- Encouraging adoption of new children’s vaccines through the development of methods for decision support modelling
- Enhancing evidence-based policy decisions for neonatal and child survival in the highest mortality countries
- Expanding access to effective antimalarial treatment through the private sector
- Identifying and promoting a new trauma treatment which could save over 100,000 lives a year
- Improving access to mental health care in low- and middle-income countries
- Improving the control of blindness in children in low- and middle-income countries through programmes, policy and legislation
- Improving treatment of hypertension in the very elderly
- Influencing EU and national policy on patient mobility within Europe
- Influencing the widespread adoption of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in low- and middle-income countries
- Informing policy and decision-making on vitamin A supplementation for mothers and children
- Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria control
- Introducing patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) into the NHS
- Isoniazid preventive therapy for people with HIV
- Male circumcision as an HIV prevention strategy
- Preventing disease through promotion of handwashing with soap
- Preventing HIV in African adolescents
- Reducing the overdiagnosis of malaria and improving case management of fever in East and West Africa
- Scaling up insecticide treated net coverage: evidence to support strategic policy decisions and investment
- Screening for TB in people living with HIV
- Securing action to address the health needs of trafficked women
- Smoking cessation support by text message: the impact of the txt2stop trial
- Supporting decision-making on the introduction of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine in low- and middle-income countries
- Supporting influenza pandemic preparedness
- The technology of insecticide treated nets for malaria control