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Research Highlights

  • Performance of different clinical trial designs to evaluate treatments during an epidemic

    Posted 16/10/18. Clinical research is a crucial component of outbreak response as it provides evidence to improve the prevention and treatment of diseases with epidemic potential. However, disease epidemics are unpredictable and often short-lived, and this adds many challenges to the conduct of clinical research. Professor Peter Horby and colleagues have evaluated some commonly used clinical trial designs in order to determine the optimal design for this context.

  • Valuing the unpaid contribution of community health volunteers to mass drug administration programs

    Posted 10/10/2018. Community volunteers are used to deliver a number of healthcare interventions. Although these volunteers are not paid, their time still has an economic value, known as an opportunity cost. Dr Hugo Turner and colleagues found that this economic value is significant for mass drug administration programs: for the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control alone it would be valued at US$60-90 million.

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MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine

The MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine provides a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary foundation in global health. This course embraces the breadth and complexity of global health challenges facing resource limited contexts and equips candidates with the tools and awareness to contribute to innovative solutions.