Sections:
Health Knowledge Programmes
Health Systems Development
Making health systems more accessible to poor people and delivering better health systems - choice, access quality, outcomes, redefining the role of government, monitoring, quality and impact, effective inter-sectoral policies and programmes.
Contact: Dr Barbara McPake, Programme Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, Tel: 020 7927 2431, Fax: 020 7637 5391, e-mail: barbaramcpake@lshtm.ac.uk
Health Economics and Financing
Improving equity, efficiency and quality of health services in developing countries through the application of health economics and encouraging the appropriate use of economic information and techniques in decision-making.
Contact: Professor Anne Mills, Programme Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, Tel: 020 7927 2354, Fax: 020 7637 5391. e-mail: anne.mills@lshtm.ac.uk
Effective Health Care Alliance
Increasing the number of decisions relating to the health sector that are based on the best available evidence and ensuring problems of developing countries are included in the brief of the Cochrane Collaboration.
Contact: Professor Paul Garner, Liverpool School Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, Tel: 0151 705 3201 Ext. 2201, e-mail: pgarner@liv.ac.uk
Improving Perinatal Care to Reduce Infant and Child Mortality in Poor Communities
Strengthening the knowledge base upon which policy recommendations can be made for minimum packages of care (antenatal, intrapartum and post partum) for a range of settings with different levels of health care infrastructure.
Contact: Professor Anthony Costello, International Perinatal Care Unit (IPU), Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, Tel: 020 7905 2261, Fax: 020 7404 2602, e-mail: ipu@ich.ucl.ac.uk
Reducing the Dangers of Pregnancy and Maternal Mortality in Poor Societies
Developing new interventions and/or better service content which is relevant, effective, of high quality, and sustainable. Understanding maternal health policy and health issues so as to inform and guide strategic policies to effectively deploy resources.
Contact: Dr Veronique Filippi, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, Tel: 020 7927 2210, Fax: 020 7637 4314, e-mail: Veronique.filippi@lshtm.ac.uk
Sexual and Reproductive Health: Policy and Practice
Providing better quality and wider range of reproductive health services in developing countries and to promote the status of women through improved health care and greater reproductive choice.
Contact: Professor John Cleland, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 49-51 Bedford Street, London, WC1B 3DP, Tel: 020 7299 4621, Fax: 020 7299 4637, e-mail: john.cleland@lshtm.ac.uk
Opportunities and Choices
Operations research on family planning and reproductive health service delivery.
Contact: Dr Will Stones, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Tel: 01703 594 548, Fax: 01703 593 846.
Safe Passages to Adulthood
Filling key knowledge gaps relating to the nature, magnitude and consequences of reproductive and sexual health problems among young people. Identifying situation-specific key determinants of young people’s sexual behaviour. Identifying culturally-appropriate means by which barriers to good sexual and reproductive health can be overcome.
Contact: Dr Roger Ingham, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, Tel: 01703 592 587, Fax: 01703 594 597, e-mail: RI@psy.soton.ac.uk
HIV Disease, AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections
Influencing policy and practice towards effective interventions in disadvantaged populations for the prevention of HIV/STIs, and the provision of optimal care for persons with HIV/AIDS and STIs.
Contact: Professor David Mabey, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, Tel: 020 7927 2297, Fax: 020 7637 4314, e-mail: david.mabey@lshtm.ac.uk
HIV/AIDS
Building on existing evidence base and seeking to develop more effective and evidence-based interventions including: care of HIV-infected individual; linking prevention to care; delivery of effective public health, preventive and clinical services in the AIDS era; STI management approaches for prevention and control of STI and HIV; behavioural change/IEC interventions for the prevention and control of STIs and HIV; improving service quality and accessibility from both client and provider perspectives; new products for prevention of STD/HIV transmission, and intersection of drug injection-associated and sexually transmitted epidemics of HIV infection.
Contact: Dr Dave Haran, Teressa Jacksou, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, Tel: 0151 708 9393, Fax: 0151 707 9193.
Malaria
Malaria mosquito entomology / vector control / malaria control policy; control and management of malaria in context of health sector reform; diagnosis and treatment; equity and gender activities; MALSAT (Environmental Information Systems for Malaria and Meningitis); Cochrane Infectious Diseases group; and malaria in pregnancy.
Contact: Dr Imelda Bates, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA, Tel: 0151 705 3115, Fax: 0151 707 9193, e-mail: ibates@liv.ac.uk
Malaria
Applied and operational research in malaria countries of Africa and Asia with special emphasis on: the evaluation, development and implementation of insecticide-treated mosquito nets, prediction and prevention of malaria epidemics, especially those due to climatic variation, trials of new drugs and candidate vaccines, the epidemiology of urban malaria, intermittent preventive treatment of pregnant women and young children, economic and population genetic modelling of drug resistance, and the role of social science research in influencing malaria control policies and strategies.
Contact: Dr Jo Lines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, Tel: 020 7927 2674, Fax: 020 7580 9075, e-mail: jo.lines@lshtm.ac.uk
Tuberculosis
Multidisciplinary programme covering clinical research, epidemiology, anthropology, laboratory disciplines, economics and health policy. Better understanding of the social, economic and cultural influences on access to services for TB and adherence to treatment in Southern and West Africa and the Indian sub-continent. Developing and testing affordable approaches to improving the speed and accuracy of diagnosis. Testing new strategies to improve coverage and treatment outcome in TB control programmes in Southern Africa, India, Pakistan and Nepal. Exploring approaches to reduce the threat of multi-drug resistant TB.
Contact: Dr Peter Godfrey-Fausset, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT, Tel: 020 7612 7804, Fax: 020 7637 4314, e-mail: peter.godfrey-faussett@lshtm.ac.uk
Tuberculosis
Improved accessibility of quality assured TB care for poor and disadvantaged people; and approaches to reducing the threat of multi drug resistant TB.
Contact: Dr Bertie Squires, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, Tel: 0151 708 9393, Fax: 0151 707 9193.