PI: Dr Wilber Sabiiti According to the World Health Organisation’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2017, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from infectious disease, with a higher incidence than HIV/AIDS. To tell whether a patient is responding or to test the effectiveness of new TB drugs, one must be able to count the number … Read more

PI: Professor Ifor Samuel Researchers in the School of Physics & Astronomy are exploring how to apply a portable light source for photodynamic therapy (PDT), a technology they have already developed to treat skin cancer, to treat a major neglected tropical disease. In this project, experts in PDT, parasitologists and microbiologists from institutes in Sao … Read more

Pacific Connections PI: Dr Tony Crook The prevalence of violence against women in the Pacific region is among the highest in the world. Countries across the region have identified the social, well-being and economic consequences of gender-based violence and women’s economic and political marginalization. An international research consortium of Department of Social Anthropology with Pacific … Read more

PI: Dr Andrew Blaikie The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognises that interprofessional education (IPE) of health care students is a great way to prepare them to work together as a collaborative health workforce. The University of Rwanda School of Health Sciences delivers a range of undergraduate health professional programmes, but their access to high quality training … Read more

PI: Professor Andrew Brierley The Lake Victoria fishery supports c. 35 million people in the East African Community (EAC). Fisheries ecologists from the School of Biology are working with human-health and fishery partners around Lake Victoria in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya on connected, multidisciplinary projects to sustainably manage fish stocks, and to examine the potential … Read more