Research

We conduct multi-disciplinary research with experts throughout the world, spanning basic clinical science, epidemiology, applied health research, health system and health policy research, and health economics.

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Africa

Institution	Country
Stellenbosch University	South Africa
University of Cape Town	South Africa
University of Witwatersrand	South Africa
University of Rwanda	Rwanda
University of Global Health Equity	Rwanda
Ministry of Health	Rwanda
Rwanda Build	Rwanda
African Initiative for Mankind Progress	Rwanda
University of Abomey Calavi	Benin
University of Botswana	Botswana
Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone	Botswana
Nouna HDSS	Burkina Faso
Department of Surgery, Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital	Oniipa, Namibia
Namibia Anaesthesiologists Society of Namibia	Windhoek, Namibia
University of Namibia, Windhoek	Windhoek, Namibia
University of Nairobi	Kenya
Wangu Kanja Foundation	Kenya
African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC)	Kenya
University of Science, Techniques and Technology	Bamako, Mali
Mali Ministry or Health of Mali	Mali
National Public Health Laboratories of Mali	Mali
UNICEF Mali offices	Mali
Ministry of Health	Gambia
West African Health Organisation
Bayero University Kano	Nigeria
College of Medicine University of Lagos and Lagos University Teaching Hospital	Nigeria
Leprosy Mission	Nigeria
University of Ibadan	Nigeria
School, of Medicine, University for Development Studies	Ghana
Tamale Teaching Hospital, Tamale	Ghana

Asia

Institution	Country
Peking First University	Beijing China
Provincial GP Training and Research Center, Shanxi DaYi Hospital	Shanxi, China
Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Hospital	Beijing China
Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital	Thailand
Siriraj Hospital	Thailand
Queen Sirikit Heart Center of the Northeast	Thailand
Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital	Thailand
Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital	Thailand
Nakornping Hospital	Thailand
Lampang Hospital	Thailand
The Aga Khan University	Pakistan
Christian Medical College & Hospital, in Ludhiana Punjab	India
Sreechitra Institute of Medical Science and Technology	India
Indian Institute of Technology Madras	India
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad	India
Leprosy Mission Nepal	Nepal
The Leprosy Mission Fund India	India
University of Jaffna	Sri Lanka
University of Health and Allied Sciences	Sri Lanka
Centre for Lebanese Studies, American University	Lebanon
International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,	Bangladesh
Independent University	Bangladesh

Europe

Institution	Country
Centre for Family Medicine, Medical Faculty	Skopje, North Macedonia
Georgian Respiratory Association	Georgia
Environmental Health, National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health	Georgia
University of Minho	Portugal
Maastricht University	The Netherlands
WHO	Switzerland
Heidelberg University	Germany
Gottingen University	Germany
University College, London	UK
Strathmore University	UK
King's College London	UK
University of Newcastle	UK
The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen & Dundee	UK
University of Aberdeen	UK
University of York	UK
University of Warwick	UK
University of Liverpool	UK
Leprosy Mission England &Wales,	UK
Cardiff University	UK

North America

Institution	Country
Hospital Español de Veracruz	Mexico
University of California	USA
Utah University	USA
Harvard University	USA
NorthWestern University	USA

Oceania

Institution	Country
University of Melbourne	Melbourne, Australia
Burnet Institute	Melbourne, Australia

South America

Institution	Country
University of São Paulo	São Paulo, Brazil
ABC (FMABC), São Bernardo do Campo	São Paulo, Brazil

Our research and people

Recent research projects

Project: NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery

Project Lead: Professor Dion Morton

The GlobalSurg Collaborative was established to represent practicing surgeons from all around the world. We conduct collaborative international research into surgical outcomes by fostering local, national and international research networks.

The GlobalSurg network now includes over 5000 clinicians in more than 100 countries. The ethos is inclusive and collaborative: our international cohort studies are open to all collaborators, including medical students, clinical officers, doctors, nurses and researchers. Any hospital, anywhere in the world, treating patients that meet study inclusion criteria are eligible to take part.

Project: NIHR Global Health Group Equi-Injury

Project Leads: Professor Justine Davies (University of Birmingham) and Professor Kathryn Chu (Stellenbosch University).

The aim of this Global Health grant is to help reduce the likelihood of people in developing countries dying unnecessarily from injuries. With partners in Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, and Pakistan, we will address both delays in access to care and quality of care provided to the injured, to reduce death or disability.

Our partner institutions include University of Birmingham, University of Aberdeen; University of York; University of Rwanda; University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda; Ministry of Health, Rwanda; The Aga Khan University; University for Development Studies, Ghana; Stellenbosch University, and is co-led by Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Project: The BactiVac Network - Accelerating Bacterial Vaccines

Project Lead: Professor Adam Cunningham

BactiVac, the Bacterial Vaccines Network, brings together members based in academic, industry and policy sectors to accelerate the development of vaccines against bacterial infections relevant to low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The BactiVac Network delivers this through catalyst project and training awards to encourage cross-collaboration between academic and industrial partners in developed and developing nations. The BactiVac Network brings together academic, industrial and other partners involved in vaccine research against human and animal bacterial infections from the UK and LMICs.

Project: MaaCiwara Study

Project Lead: Professor Semira Manaseki-Holland

Diarrhoea causes 1 in 9 under-five deaths worldwide. The MaaCiwara Study, set in Mali, exams interventions aimed at reducing the burden of diarrhoea among children eating complementary food, particularly behavioural interventions that influence food hygiene, food content and safe play. It is comprised of a Cluster RCT, testing a low-cost, scalable and adaptable community intervention to reduce diarrhoea and improve the growth of young children in urban and rural Mali. We will assess the effects in both settings, to inform replication and scaling of the intervention, because the dynamics of community life vary in each.

Project: NIHR RIGHT Leprosy

Project Lead: Professor Richard Lilford

The overall aim of the research is to improve self-care in the community for leprosy patients who are at risk of recurrent ulceration and further disfigurement and disability and to better understand the needs of Buruli ulcer patients and the barriers to meeting those needs, in Nigeria, Nepal and India.

Our Global Partners