London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The award of this programme recognises the quality of the long standing research collaborations between one of the world's leading schools of public health and one of the UK's major medical schools.

The London Intercollegiate Doctoral Training Partnership, funded by the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), will provide high-quality PhD training across the spectrum of biomedical and public health research.

Students will benefit from funding for a period of three and a half years with opportunities for interdisciplinary training and professional internships during their studies.

Professor Eleanor Riley, Director of the Partnership at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "This award will provide at least 10 studentships each year to train the research leaders of the future in crucial areas of global health including infectious diseases, causal inference from large data sets and evaluation of complex health interventions, and to support them as they develop their professional networks and initiate their research careers".

Professor Peter Kopelman, Principal at St George's, University of London, added: "I wish to congratulate everyone involved in this success. The award recognises the outstanding strength of the partnership between St George's and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the powerful impact of our research. It is excellent to have the MRC's prestigious support for training the next generation of scientists."

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a world-leading centre for research and postgraduate education in public and global health, with 3,900 students and more than 1,000 staff working in over 100 countries.

St George's, University of London is the UK's only university dedicated to medical and health sciences education, training and research.

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