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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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GROUP

Network for the use of drones for malaria vector control.

GROUP

Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modelling of health, health policy or broader policy with implications for health

GROUP

Violence, mental health, biological changes to the immune system and HIV risk: a three-year mixed-method, longitudinal study with 1000 women in Nairobi, Kenya

Violence
Mental health
Alcohol and drug use
HIV
Nairobi
Kenya
Epidemiology
Immunology
Social science
Centre

Providing the authoritative academic voice on malaria.

GROUP

The Malaria Reference Laboratory (MRL) provides laboratory reference and diagnostic parasitology of malaria, and surveillance data on all imported malaria reported in the UK.

Malaria
Diagnostics
GROUP

MEIRU, formerly known as Karonga Prevention Study (KPS), has been making major research contributions to the understanding and control of long-term conditions, including HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and common mental health conditions in rural Karonga and urban Lilongwe, to complement its continuing research on infectious diseases.

Infectious disease
HIV/AIDS
Cardiovascular disease
Diabetes
longitudinal research
Sub-Saharan Africa
Malawi
Epidemiology
Demography
Population health
GROUP

The Maternal Health Group in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiolgy was created in 1989 and expanded in 2015 to include the Newborn Health and Stillbirth Team at LSHTM.

GROUP

We conduct multidisciplinary research on the role of the private and public health sectors in delivering maternal and reproductive health care.

Maternal health
Private sector
Reproductive health
Health care financing
Health systems
South Asia
Uganda
Senegal
Eastern Africa
Western Africa
Epidemiology
Anthropology
Health economics
Programme evaluation
Demography
PROJECT

To better understand the mortality burden of antimicrobial resistance in low and middle income countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

AMR
Antibiotic resistance
Disease burden
LMICs
Sub-Saharan Africa
West Africa
East Africa
Southern Africa
Epidemiology
Microbiology
AMR
GROUP

Staff and research degree students in Department of Global Health and Development conducting interdisciplinary social science research to strengthen the health, wellbeing and voice of people affected by humanitarian crises.

Anthropology
Political science
Health Systems Research
Health economics
Social Epidemiology
PROJECT

Evaluating the impact of a multi-component menstrual health intervention in Ugandan secondary schools on girls’ education, health, and wellbeing.

Adolescent health
Behaviour change
Hygiene & Sanitation
Mental health
Schools
Adolescent health
Complex interventions
Uganda
East Africa
Clinical trials
Epidemiology
GROUP

We are an interdisciplinary group seeking to support collaborative research on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Research Network and its dissemination at LSHTM and partners.

PROJECT

Our research aims to develop new guidance for systematic reviewers when making a decision about whether or not to use a meta-analytical approach to the synthesis of quantitative evidence, with a particular emphasis on the synthesis of studies of complex interventions.

GROUP

MaPs in ENL is the largest international multicentre randomised clinical trial on ENL treatment ever to be conducted in six leprosy referral centres in five countries.

Neglected Tropical Diseases
Bangladesh
Ethiopia
India
Indonesia
Nepal
Research
PROJECT

A research collaboration addressing pressing issues facing health systems globally and at a national level in South Africa – the impacts of and response to migration and its intersection with gender.

GROUP

This site exists to support researchers from the social and medical sciences with the analysis of incomplete datasets, and as a focus of statistical research in this area.

Missing data
Multiple imputation
Economic evaluation
Electronic health records
Worldwide
Statistics
Clinical trials
Economics
Epidemiology
Education
PROJECT

MONKEYBAR is a project seeking to identify risk factors and control strategies for Plasmodium knowlesi, a zoonotic malaria carried by macaques.

Southeast Asia
GROUP

Collaborating with international research partners to improve health in low and middle-income countries.

HIV/AIDS
Infectious disease
Malaria
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Tuberculosis
Adolescent health
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Eastern Africa
Southern Africa
Western Africa
Epidemiology
GIS/Spatial analysis
Statistics
PROJECT

The International Statistics and Epidemiology Partnership aims to define and implement a sustainable strategy to expand capacity in applied medical statistics in sub-Saharan Africa.

Capacity Building
Epidemiology
Co-production
Mathematical Modelling
Equity
Capacity strengthening
Sub-Saharan Africa
Global
United Kingdom
Epidemiology
Statistics
Mathematical modelling
PROJECT

Evaluating the impact of the MTV Shuga mass media campaign. Centred around a TV drama, the campaign is designed to improve the sexual health of young people.

Adolescent health
Health policy
Health Policy and Planning
Adolescent health
Economic evaluation
Randomised controlled trials
Sexual behaviour
Phnom Penh
South America
Mixed Methods
Psychology
Public health
GROUP

MITU’s mission is to contribute to improving health through the development and evaluation of interventions against HIV and other health problems.

HIV/AIDS
Clinical trials
Health policy
Tanzania
Eastern Africa