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The UK government is funding 21 new novel coronavirus research studies, including a project led by Professor Trudie Lang. Research must be undertaken everywhere across the globe during this pandemic. Access and ability to undertake research should be equitable, and this research project, working through The Global Health Network, aims to support healthcare teams in low-resource settings. This is a University of Oxford led programme aiming to enable more and better research in diseases, communities and settings where evidence is lacking.
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.
KWTRP KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
The KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme is a partnership between the Kenya Medical Research Institute, the Wellcome Trust and the University of Oxford. The Programme has grown from a small group to a facility hosting over 100 research scientists and 700 support staff working across Kenya, Uganda and the region.
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 of 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.
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)
Oxford University Clinical Research Unit-Nepal (OUCRU-NP) is hosted by Patan Hospital and the Patan Academy of Health Sciences in Kathmandu Nepal and works in close collaboration with the Nepal Health Research Council at the Nepalese Ministry of Health and Population. Our mission is to build a strong critical mass of young Nepalese clinician scientists who can help build Nepal's scientific and clinical future.
OUCRU Indonesia (OUCRU network)
OUCRU Indonesia, along with their many local and international partners, conduct biomedical, clinical, and epidemiological research on infections impacting the health of people living in Southeast Asia and beyond.
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 International Health at DPhil and MSc levels.