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Congratulations to everyone involved in contributing to FIEBRE’s success - the clinical and laboratory staff, hospital, participants and local communities. The team has continued working throughout the COVID-19 epidemic despite national restrictions which slowed down enrolment and limited field activities.
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© 2020 MORU. Photographer: Athirat Black.
OUCRU SPEAR Digital Diaries
EOCRU OUCRU OUCRU-Nepal Public Engagement
21 June 2022
Healthcare workers and community members in Indonesia, Nepal and Vietnam have been documenting their personal experiences of Covid-19. They have each made their own ‘digital diary’, using a range of creative tools and with technical support from the project team. These diaries form part of the SPEAR project: exploring the experiences and impacts of COVID-19 for healthcare workers and vulnerable communities.
Clinical trials for a malaria vaccine start in Mali and Indonesia
EOCRU OUCRU
21 June 2022
Sanaria Inc. announced that two new Phase 2 trials of its pioneering malaria vaccines have started. The first is in 6- to 10-year-old children living in Bancoumana, Mali, a malarious region of West Africa. The second is in Indonesian soldiers based in Sumatra, Indonesia. The soldiers will be deploying for six to nine months this coming August to an intensely malarious district in eastern Indonesia.
Picturing Health: The Burden of Leprosy in Eastern Indonesia
EOCRU OUCRU Public Engagement
26 April 2022
The Eijkman Oxford Clinical Research Unit in Indonesia and Sumba Foundation collaborated with photographer Yoppy Pieter to express the human face of leprosy in Sumba, a remote island in eastern Indonesia. The project aimed to visualize the story of leprosy and raise awareness of this debilitating and heavily stigmatised disease
Research Culture at OUCRU
EOCRU OUCRU
6 April 2022
What do we mean by 'Research Culture' and how has fostering a multinational, collaborative culture helped us deliver world-class research? Let's explore the research culture at OUCRU.
Policy and Public Engagement at OUCRU
EOCRU OUCRU Public Engagement Video
29 March 2022
Why does OUCRU place an important focus on engaging with its important partners, policy makers, the press, the community, and young people? Explore our work in policy & public engagement.
OUCRU Research Themes and Future
EOCRU OUCRU Video
22 March 2022
In this video, explore OUCRU's research areas and what questions we are aiming to answer in the next 5 years.
Covid-19 at OUCRU - Research and engagement portfolio
EOCRU OUCRU OUCRU-Nepal Public Engagement
11 March 2022
In the last two years, OUCRU has worked with our partners and collaborators to conduct various research and engagement projects in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This portfolio provides an overview of all the on-going projects that our entire programme have been working on to contribute to the understanding and management of COVID-19 and its national, regional and global impact.
OUCRU Tour - Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi (Vietnam) and Jakarta (Indonesia)
EOCRU OUCRU
11 March 2022
Are you curious about what a leading regional research hub for infectious disease look like? OUCRU is a large-scale research programme with offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi (Vietnam) and Jakarta (Indonesia). In this video, our leading scientists will take you on a tour of OUCRU's facilities and introduce you to our host institutions: the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases (Hanoi, Vietnam), and the Eijkman Institute (Jakarta, Indonesia)
From Vietnam to the World - 30 Years of OUCRU
EOCRU OUCRU OUCRU-Nepal
4 March 2022
After over 30 years of working in infectious disease in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Nepal, OUCRU has developed and established its foothold as a crucial regional research hub in infectious diseases, bridging the gap between research and treatments all over the world. What have we done? How did we do it? And what will OUCRU continue to focus on in the next 5 years?
The global burden of Plasmodium vivax malaria is obscure and insidious
EOCRU OUCRU Public Engagement Video
16 November 2021
Until recently, Plasmodium falciparum dominated the malaria research landscape, and Plasmodium vivax infection was considered benign and inconsequential. We now know that this is not true: if not properly diagnosed and treated, P. vivax can lead to life-threatening syndromes and death. Professor Kevin Baird from EOCRU in Jakarta, Indonesia talks to OutBreak News Today
COVID-19 research at OUCRU
EOCRU OUCRU OUCRU-Nepal
10 November 2021
Despite unprecedented disruptions caused globally by SARS-Cov-2, OUCRU has responded remarkably and addressed almost every important aspect of the pandemic, from its societal impact to viral genomic surveillance and COVID-19 therapy
Large-scale systematic review identifies research gaps in scrub typhus
EOCRU OCGHR OUCRU
2 November 2021
A new, extensive systematic review has identified significant research gaps in the treatment of scrub typhus which could be improved by developing a database for individual participant data (IPD) to enable more detailed analyses to address important knowledge gaps such as the optimum dosing for children and to improve patient outcomes.
Second most common malaria parasite takes unrealized toll on human health
EOCRU OUCRU
11 October 2021
The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax causes frequent, chronic infections that represent a major unrecognized burden on global health, according to a review by Kevin Baird of the Eijkman-Oxford Clinical Research Unit in Indonesia and Katherine Battle of the Institute for Disease Modeling in the United States
What does the Oxford Malaria vaccine mean for Asia?
EOCRU OUCRU
17 June 2021
A trial in infants and toddlers in Burkina Faso showed that experimental malaria vaccine R21/MM confers 77% protection, an unprecedented level and the first malaria vaccine to exceed WHO’s goal of 75% efficacy. While a larger trial is needed to assess its safety and efficacy, R21/MM may substantially reduce child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa. But this vaccine may be less relevant to Asia Pacific where malaria causes severe morbidity and mortality in all age groups, asymptomatic malaria infections are frequent, and the vaccine may not be effective against P. vivax.
Supporting children to grow smarter, not just taller
EOCRU OUCRU
21 April 2021
Anuraj Shankar from our EOCRU unit in Jakarta, Indonesia, with Elizabeth Prado and Leila Larson describe a meta-analysis showing that responsive caregiving boosts infants’ brain development. Parenting group sessions and home visits improve cognitive, language, and motor skills. And nutrition-only programmes have much less effect than comprehensive interventions.
World’s largest clinical trial for COVID-19 treatments expands internationally
EOCRU OCGHR OUCRU OUCRU-Nepal
22 February 2021
The Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) Trial, the world’s largest clinical trial for COVID-19 treatments, has now expanded internationally with Indonesia and Nepal among the first countries to join. The first patients have been recruited to RECOVERY International.
Indonesia’s decision to prioritise COVID-19 vaccination to citizens aged 18-59 years old questionable
EOCRU MORU OUCRU
2 February 2021
The Indonesian government policy to exclude the elderly in the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination program could hinder the vaccine’s impact in lowering mortality rates. COVID-19 mortality rates in Indonesia, the highest in Southeast Asia, are dominated by those in the 60 years and above age bracket. In this article published in The Conversation, Kartika Saraswati and fellow DPhil students elaborate how, by prioritising vaccination for elderly, Indonesia may optimally reduce the hospital burden and COVID-19 deaths amidst a limited vaccine supply during the first vaccination phase.
New Tropical Medicine Associate Professors and University Research Lecturers
Awards & Appointments COMRU EOCRU OUCRU OUCRU-Nepal
13 July 2020
This year has seen a high level of recognition of distinction in the Africa and Asia Programmes and Global Health research. Many congratulations to our researchers.
Pearl Gan, photographer in residence at OUCRU in Vietnam and EOCRU in Indonesia wins FIGO's 2019 photo competition
Awards & Appointments EOCRU OUCRU
16 October 2019
A mother and her baby leave a Puskesmas - a government-mandated primary care clinic - in West Java, Indonesia, following a check-up. The woman smiles, as the infant stares out from the safety of a bright sarong wrap. This quiet moment of active participation in their own health and well-being is the realisation of a fundamental human right. WHO’s vision for primary health care in the 21st century is to ensure the highest possible level of health and well-being, with equitable distribution.
Faces of malaria
EOCRU OUCRU Public Engagement
25 April 2019
Today April 25 is World Malaria Day. We would like to highlight a malaria photography project by photographer Pearl Gan, in collaboration with OUCRU in Vietnam and EOCRU in Indonesia. Pearl's malaria project aims to bring visibility to the people and their malaria burden through her photographs of them and their environment. She hopes to humanise the faces of malaria and the malaria problem in the Asia-Pacific to audiences unfamiliar with it.