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