Learn about projects in Uganda and East Africa contributed to by staff at LSHTM and MRC/UVRI.
Maternal Healthcare Markets Evaluation Team (MET)
Contacts: Dr Caroline Lynch, Professor Catherine Goodman
Partners and donors: MSD, through its MSD for Mothers programme
We conduct multidisciplinary research on the role of the private and public health sectors in delivering maternal and reproductive health care.
Our evaluations are generating evidence on the use, quality, equity and market dynamics of private maternal health services, and whether interventions such as social franchising can increase access to lifesaving care for all women.
LINEA: Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse
Contacts: Ana Buller, Lottie Howard-Merrill, Marjorie Pichon, Nambusi Kyegombe, Joyce Wamoyi
Exploring the potential of communities and social norms to prevent violence against and exploitation of children and adolescents.
The Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) is an international and multi-pronged project exploring how social norm theory can be used to prevent the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and adolescents globally. Centring adolescent girls, LINEA aims to provide an alternative to research and programmes, which have traditionally focussed on providing girls with skills and information. Instead, LINEA aims to better understand and address the interdependence of human behaviour and the structural realities that shape the individual experience of adolescent girls. LINEA was established in 2014 and is nested within Gender Violence and Health Centre (GHVC) at LSHTM.
Child Protection Research Group
Contacts: Karen Devries, Clare Tanton, Louise Knight, Camilla Fabbri, Ellen Turner, Amiya Bhati
Partners and donors: UK MRC, DfID, Wellcome Trust, UBS Foundation, Save the Children, Plan International, Graines de Paix, and Raising Voices, Makerere University, the AfriChild Center, MRC-UVRI Uganda
Bringing a public health approach to prevention of violence in childhood and adolescence, and to improving child protection internationally. We conduct research to understand the causes and consequences of violence; to develop, adapt and evaluate interventions to reduce violence; and to improve research methodology in the field of child protection.