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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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We are focused on improving outcomes for people with kidney and cardiovascular disease in the UK.

Non-communicable diseases
Multimorbidity
Health services
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
PROJECT

IDEAS aims to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies through generating evidence to inform policy and practice.  Working in Ethiopia, North-Eastern Nigeria and the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, IDEAS uses measurement, learning and evaluation to find out what works, why and how in maternal and newborn health programmes.

Child health
Maternal health
Ethiopia
South Asia
Nigeria
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Economics
Epidemiology
Statistics
PROJECT

An NIHR Global Health Research Group for Improving Hypertension Control in Rural sub-Saharan Africa (IHCoR-Africa)

Cardiovascular disease
Hypertension
Global health
Non-communicable diseases
Disease burden
Complex interventions
Kenya
The Gambia
West Africa
East Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Cardiovascular disease
Epidemiology
Health Systems Research
Clinical trials
PROJECT

Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) is a five-year programme which will accelerate progress on tools, data and capacity needed to guide evidence-based policy in agriculture-food systems, nutrition and health.

PROJECT

IMPALA is a phase 3, randomised, open-label clinical trial testing the effectiveness of the novel 2-monthly injectable long-acting (LA) antiretroviral therapy (cabotegravir LA plus rilpivirine LA) compared to continuation of daily oral antiretroviral therapy in people with a history of sub-optimal HIV control in sub-Saharan Africa.

Health
HIV
HIV/AIDS
Quality of care
Health outcomes
Quality of life
Uganda
South Africa
Kenya
Africa
Clinical trials
Health
Medicine
PROJECT

IMPALA is a phase 3, randomised, open-label clinical trial testing the effectiveness of the novel 2-monthly injectable long-acting (LA) antiretroviral therapy (cabotegravir LA plus rilpivirine LA) compared to continuation of daily oral antiretroviral therapy in people with a history of sub-optimal HIV control in sub-Saharan Africa.

HIV/AIDS
Health
HIV
Quality of care
Health outcomes
Quality of life
Uganda
South Africa
Kenya
Africa
Clinical trials
Health
Medicine
GROUP

IMPRESS investigates whether enhanced management practices can improve newborn survival and the quality of clinical care in hospitals in Malawi.

Hospital management
Quality of care
Newborn health
Health systems
Newborn health
Impact evaluation
UK
Malawi
Health economics
Management science
PROJECT

Investigating quality improvement in general practices – what do they do and how do they do it? A survey of GPs and Practice Managers.

Organisational research
Health services research
United Kingdom
Management
PROJECT

Improving Hospital Opioid Substitution Therapy (iHOST): implementation and assessment of an intervention to reduce late presentations, discharges against medical advice and repeat admissions among people who use opioids.

Public health
Social sciences
Addiction
Behaviour change
Health policy
Complex interventions
Health services research
UK
Health
Mixed Methods
Mixed methods evaluation
Social science
Policy and Health Systems
PROJECT

The IMPULSE study aims to improve newborn routine data quality and use in high mortality settings for Every Newborn to survive and thrive.

Neonatal
Neonatal health
Maternal health
Central African Republic
Ethiopia
Tanzania
Uganda
Global health
Routine health information systems
Health Systems Research
Data science
GROUP

Academic research group describing and explaining regional and socio-demographic differences in cancer outcomes, to influence policy and improve outcomes for all.

Cancer
Data analysis
Missing data
Methodological development
Health inequalities
Health systems
Health care policy
Health outcomes
UK
Europe
Southern Africa
Eastern Africa
Japan
Epidemiology
Statistics
Public health
Data science
PROJECT

INTEGRATE seeks to use evidence from routinely collected electronic health record data to inform and evaluate healthcare guidance, to maximise benefits for the health of the population.

Epidemiology
Data analysis
Primary care
Health economics
Implementation research
Epidemiology
Health inequalities
Health services research
Implementation research
Qualitative methods
UK
GROUP

Developing tools, techniques and evidence about disability, leading to scalable interventions for public health and development.

GROUP

The International Centre for Eye Health is a research and education group working to improve eye health and eliminate avoidable visual impairment and blindness, with a focus on low-income populations.

Eye diseases
Blindness
Trachoma
Eye health
Worldwide
Opthalmology
GROUP

Facilitating the development, evaluation and implementation of accessible, quality assured in-vitro diagnostics for global health, through information sharing and advocacy.

PROJECT

This mixed-method study combines a four-wave longitudinal quantitative design with qualitative interviews to explore the predictors of intimate partner violence in Mwanza, Tanzania. 

Intimate partner violence
longitudinal research
Violence against women
Violence against women and girls
Mwanza, Tanzania
Social Epidemiology
Sociology
PROJECT

The Invisible Girls research programme aims to raise the visibility and voices of child domestic workers in Southeast Asia. This programme is designed to generate intervention-focused evidence to guide programming and policies that promote a brighter future for child domestic workers, and ultimately reduce children’s engagement as domestic workers.  

Child domestic work
Child labour
Child labour
Complex interventions
Southeast Asia
Myanmar
Intervention evaluation
Implementation science