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Oxford Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health
Claudia Turner: Tropical neonatology
Whereas children mortality has dramatically decreased over the past 15 years, almost half the remaining mortality still occurs during the first 4 weeks of age. Neonatology, or care of newborns, doesn't need to be difficult or expensive. Low cost intervertions involving communities, such as keeping babies warm, save lives.
Bob Snow: The future of malaria in Africa
Although the map of malaria in Africa has seen little reduction since 1970, the likelihood of getting infected has never been so low. For further progress, we need better tools – insecticides, drugs and vaccines – as well as economic development and investments in health systems. Cartography of the disease helps design interventions, and a better understanding of how immunity develops will also shape the future of malaria in Africa.
MSc in Health Service Improvement and Evaluation modules
The MSc in Health Service Improvement and Evaluation includes 6 modules taught between October and June. Your final dissertation will bring the content of all modules together and be submitted at the end of August.
Ambrose Agweyu: Improving pneumonia care
Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death among children under 5. Clinical trials, observational studies, and systematic reviews to inform guidelines for the care of children with pneumonia in hospitals aim to determine how to best preserve existing treatments, and look for new alternatives. Working in hospitals with practicing clinicians provides a unique insight applicable in real world settings.
Global Health Challenges Seminar Series 2021
This Seminar series was coordinated by Health Systems Collaborative with our Africa and Asia Programmes. Our aim is to introduce scientists to the field of health systems research through examples and enable new connections to be made across groups and countries for those with shared interests or with an interest in expanding the range of methods they use in their research. We ran four session, each focusing on a contemporary global health challenge. Each session included an introductory, expert talk to outline the breadth of the challenge and set the scene, followed by examples of how different types of health systems/social science research are being employed to tackle challenges and change health systems or health care practices. Research approaches discussed across the four sessions will include policy development, governance and regulation, human resources and service delivery, approaches to co-design, implementation, and practical ethics.
Jay Berkley: Infections, nutrition and survival
Child mortality from infectious diseases in the tropics has decreased, but a high fatality rate in hospital and post-discharge remains for vulnerable groups such as newborns and malnourished children. The CHAIN Networks looks at preventable causes of death across 9 sites in Africa and South Asia, conducting clinical trials to improve treatments and guidelines, to improve outcomes.
Postgraduate Diploma Course Content
Taught over four terms, the course consists of 16 compulsory subjects.
Nick Day: Infectious diseases in South East Asia
The Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Mahidol University, and was established with the Wellcome Trust in 1979. MORU aims to fight the infectious tropical diseases affecting rural communities in Asia and elsewhere in the developing world. MORU's malaria research aims to directly improve the treatment of the disease globally. It's researchers focus on the treatment of severe malaria, the spread of antimalarial drug resistance, and the pathophysiology of falciparum and vivax malaria. These studies are used to formulate novel adjuvant therapies, and have been translated into recommendations for the use of artemisinin based combination therapies.
Charles Sande: Airway inflammation in early life
Chronic respiratory diseases disproportionately affect young adults in low income settings, particularly when they had been exposed to noxious substances from biomass smoke in early life. Using methods developed to understand airway inflammation caused by viral infections can help us understand the mechanisms underlying this pathology and better devise interventions.
Kathryn Maitland: Improving childhood mortality with limited resources
To improve outcome for critically ill children, healthcare workers need to be trained to better work together. In addition, guidelines are often quite strict but not always tested by clinical trials. Fluid interventions for critically ill children with severe malaria or sepsis in African hospitals actually worsen the outcome. Researchers working in large consortia can also make better impact for patients and to policy makers.