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Centres, groups and projects

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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PROJECT

Adapting a complex violence prevention intervention.

Eastern Africa
PROJECT

Reconstructing Africa’s demographic past. Exploring new sources, methods and technologies to uncover long-term population trends.

Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
PROJECT

The Afya Consortium for research on public health threats in populations affected by crises: a multi-disciplinary, collaborative research programme

Capacity Building
Covid-19
Data analysis
Global health
Reproductive health
Sub-Saharan Africa
Data science
Epidemiology
Global health
Infectious Diseases
Mixed Methods
GROUP

How does agriculture affect health? Besides its impact on diets and nutrition, changing agricultural landscapes and food systems can have major effects on the transmission of human infectious diseases. We study these interactions and welcome other LSHTM researchers and collaborators to join us in this exciting work.

Vector borne disease
AMR
Antibiotic resistance
Zoonotic disease
Malaria
Worldwide
LMICs
Western Africa
Southeast Asia
Eastern Africa
Malaria
AMR
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Entomology
GROUP

Broadening the evidence base on HIV epidemiology for informing policy, strengthening the analytical capacity for HIV research, and fostering collaboration between network members.

HIV/AIDS
Non-communicable diseases
Sexually transmitted diseases and infection
Reproductive health
Surveillance
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Bioinformatics
Demography
Epidemiology
Life-course epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
GROUP

Website dedicated to research on the African trypanosome, Trypanosoma brucei.

Molecular biology
Microbiology
PROJECT

AMBITION (High Dose AMBISOME on a Fluconazole Backbone for Cryptococcal Meningitis Induction Therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: A Randomised Controlled Non-inferiority Trial) is a four-year project funded at just under €10M by the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, the Swedish International Development Agency and the DFID/MRC/Wellcome Trust Joint Global Health Trials Fund. It runs from 1 January 2017 – 31 December 2020 across a consortium of five European and six African partners.

Meningitis
HIV/AIDS
Clinical trials
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
PROJECT

The AMRnet project aims to develop a data-visualisation dashboard that makes genome-derived antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data accessible to a wide range of stakeholders including policy makers.

Antibiotic resistance
Data analysis
Epidemiology
Infectious disease
Public health
Genomics
Infectious disease policy
Public health
Surveillance
United Kingdom
Low and Middle Income Countries
AMR
Bioinformatics
Data science
Epidemiology
Genomics
GROUP

The Anthropological Approaches to Global Health group (AAGH) brings together a team of medical anthropologists conducting innovative research on a variety of topical challenges in global health

GROUP

We provide a forum for discussion, research dissemination, and building new research collaborations between researchers within LSHTM who associate themselves with this discipline.

Health policy
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Medicine
Ethnography
PROJECT

We develop perspectives on antimicrobial resistance that draw from social theories about medicines, care, technologies, infrastructures, global arrangements on health, multi-species interactions, futures and more.

Infectious disease
Drug resistance
Health systems
Social and structural determinants of health
Worldwide
Anthropology
Ethnography
PROJECT

The Anti-fibrinolytics Trialists Collaboration (ATC) is an international collaboration to conduct individual patient data meta-analyses of results from randomised trials of anti-fibrinolytics versus placebo.

Clinical trials
PROJECT

Fresh approaches to the study of antimicrobials in society.

Infectious disease
Behaviour change
Drug resistance
Health systems
Social and structural determinants of health
Eastern Africa
Southeast Asia
Anthropology
Ethnography
History
Medicine
Sociology
Centre

Inspiring innovation in AMR research through interdisciplinary and international engagements. 

AMR
Antibiotic resistance
Infectious disease
Disease control
Drug resistance
LMICs
Worldwide
Clinical research
Epidemiology
Genomics
Microbiology
Social Sciences
GROUP

The Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents’ Study (APCAPS) is a prospective inter-generational cohort that has been incrementally built through long-term follow-up of a nutrition trial (1987-90) in Telangana, south India.

Chronic disease
Diabetes
Environment
Cardiovascular disease
Urbanisation
Ageing
Environmental health
India
South Asia
Epidemiology
Development studies
Demography
Life-course epidemiology
Cardiovascular disease
PROJECT

Ayurveda for Promoting Recovery In Long COVID (APRIL) is a randomised trial examining whether a traditional Indian herbal medicine benefits adults suffering with long-term symptoms of COVID-19 (Long COVID) in the UK.

Covid-19
Long COVID
Herbal medicines
Ayurveda
Clinical trials
UK
Clinical research