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Despite a long border with China and a population of 97 million people, Vietnam has recorded only just over 300 cases of Covid-19 and not a single death. The country very quickly enacted measures such as travel restrictions, monitoring and eventually closing border with China, closing schools and increasing health checks at borders and other vulnerable places. A vast and labour intensive contact tracing operation got under way. Quarantine on such a vast scale is key as evidence mounts that as many as half of all infected people are asymptomatic.
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OUCRU Oxford University Clinical Research Unit
The Oxford University Clinical Research Unit is a large-scale clinical and public health research unit based in Vietnam. We are hosted by the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City and the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi. We also have sister units in Kathmandu and Jakarta. As a Wellcome programme, we have received considerable support from Wellcome since our establishment in 1991.
KWTRP KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, a partnership between the Kenya Medical Research Institute, Wellcome and the University of Oxford, conducts world-class, multidisciplinary research to improve human health in Africa. Based in Kenya and Uganda, the programme addresses key health challenges through research on vaccines, pathogens, clinical care, population health and health systems. It also builds African research capacity and engages local communities, the public and policymakers to ensure its work informs meaningful and ethical health interventions.
MORU Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit
Established in 1979 as a research collaboration between Mahidol University (Thailand), Oxford University (UK) and the UK's Wellcome Trust, the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) conducts targeted clinical trials and public health research that aim to discover and develop appropriate, affordable interventions that measurably improve the health of people living in resource-limited parts of the world.
SMRU Thailand (MORU network)
Founded in 1986 to work in camps for refugees from Myanmar, the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) provides quality health care to the marginalized populations living on both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border in the Mae Sot area, Tak Province. It does this by combining research and humanitarian services, with an emphasis on mother and child health and infectious diseases. In 2018 the Borderland Health Foundation was registered in Thailand as a legal structure attached to SMRU to further develop the non-research activities.
OUCRU Nepal (OUCRU network)
OUCRU Nepal was established in 2003 and is part of the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford. We are committed to advancing health outcomes through research and collaboration. In Nepal, we work closely with the National Academy of Medical Sciences in Kathmandu.
OUCRU Indonesia (OUCRU network)
OUCRU Indonesia, in collaboration with its Indonesian hosts and a wide network of local and international partners, conducts biomedical, clinical and epidemiological research on infections that affect the health of people in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based within the historic Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (FMUI) in central Jakarta, the unit develops a research agenda that is both relevant and responsive to the needs of Indonesian healthcare providers and their patients.
MOCRU Myanmar (MORU network)
Led by Prof Frank Smithuis, formerly of Médécins sans Frontières (MSF) and later of Medical Action Myanmar (MAM), the Myanmar Oxford Clinical Research Unit (MOCRU) was established in 2013.
COMRU Cambodia (MORU network)
Embedded within the Angkor Hospital for Children (AHC) in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the Cambodia-Oxford Medical Research Unit (COMRU) was established in 2006 as a collaboration between MORU and AHC, a non-profit paediatric teaching hospital and clinical training site for Cambodian doctors, nurses, medical students and health workers that provides free, quality healthcare to children. COMRU’s research focuses on the causes and reduction of morbidity and mortality in Cambodian children.
LOMWRU Lao PDR (MORU network)
The Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU) is the MORU Tropical Health Network’s unit in the Lao PDR (Laos), active since 2002. LOMWRU’s headquarters are in the capital city, Vientiane, where it is embedded within the Microbiology Laboratory of Mahosot Hospital.
NDM Centre for Global Health Research
The NDM Centre for Global Health Research brings together internationally recognised Oxford-based academic groups, networks and consortia that address major public health issues with partners across the globe. The NDM Centre for Global Health Research is also the base for postgraduate studies in Tropical Medicine and Global Health at DPhil and MSc levels.