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\n \n 8 June 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new WWARN study involving a collaboration of 107 researchers has provided unique insights in the epidemiology of submicroscopic malaria in pregnancy.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIn this talk with question and answer session, Prof Mukti will discuss the innovations and thinking behind this extraordinary health insurance scheme and how it has achieved its level of coverage in under a decade
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\n \n\n \n \n \nJoin our upcoming DPhil Forum, for current or aspiring DPhil Students at the University of Oxford who are involved in Implementation Science and Health Systems Research. Come and learn from current DPhil students. This event primarily targets DPhil Students but is also open to MSc Students and other research staff, both in Oxford and in our overseas Africa and Asia Programmes.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers at the Kemri Wellcome Trust in collaboration with colleagues from various modelling groups and the World Health Organization have designed a framework to guide the use of mathematical modelling in evidence-based policy decision making.
\n \n\n\n \n 5 June 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIHTM student, Amal Mohamed, who is currently studying the MSc, spoke at the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly representing her country Sudan.
\n \n\n\n \n 23 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that four of our researchers have been awarded the Associate Professor title, in recognition of their research achievements, contribution to teaching, and contribution to the general work of the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
\n \n\n\n \n 23 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOUCRU, in collaboration with Dak Lak\u2019s Department of Health and Centre for Disease Control (CDC), developed a training programme to enhance the capacity of commune vaccine staff, with a particular focus on supporting their communication about the vaccines and vaccination process.
\n \n\n\n \n 17 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWe regret to announce the passing of Professor Dominic Kwiatkowski, Professor of Tropical Paediatrics at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, and a renowned researcher who dedicated his life to the research on malaria. Prof Kwiatkowski passed away in April 2023 at the age of 69.
\n \n\n\n \n 12 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new study suggests that, although there is sparse evidence, substandard and falsified antiretrovirals occur and enhanced surveillance is needed.
\n \n\n\n \n 9 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n'Just Transitions to mitigate antimicrobial resistance' is a multidisciplinary social science and humanities programme funded by the British Academy. Led by Dr Sonia Lewycka and Professor Phaik Yeong Cheah, its team of 20 researchers will convene global and regional dialogues, engaging with key stakeholders to co-create equitable and sustainable solutions to manage antimicrobial resistance.
\n \n\n\n \n 5 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nVaccines are the most effective and affordable way to prevent diseases. The pandemic led to a lag in immunisation for essential vaccines \u2013 25 million children worldwide missed out on vaccination in 2021, according to WHO. At OUCRU, in addition to research and collaborations on various vaccine projects, we are committed to public and community engagement and education around vaccines. Look at some engagement projects that help raise awareness about vaccination and build the capacity for frontline healthcare workers, especially in rural areas.
\n \n\n\n \n 4 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme hosted various stakeholders for a discussion on Human Resource for Health in Kenya. The meeting discussions centered on themes around health workforce production, the impact of health workforce on quality of care and health workforce governance and management.
\n \n\n\n \n 3 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nStudents at the MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, talk about their public engagement projects.
\n \n\n\n \n 3 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System, housed within the Epidemiology and Demography Department of the KEMRI Kilifi Wellcome Trust Research Programme, celebrated two decades of its existence. The event was an opportunity for the team to reflect on its values, strengths and connect with the future.
\n \n\n\n \n 2 May 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nHealth Economics Research Unit, based at the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, in collaboration with Africa Health Technology Assessment Network and Africa Health Economics Association, hosted a webinar on African country experiences with institutionalizing Health Technology Assessment. This approach to evidence-based priority setting provides a mechanism for making choices about purchasing decisions in the health system.
\n \n\n\n \n 24 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nCaesar Atuire, who is the Ethics Lead for IHTM and a philosopher and health ethicist from Ghana, has received 3.4 million euros over 5 years from the Wellcome Discovery Awards to fund a project on global solidarity. \r\n'Moving beyond Solidarity Rhetoric in Global Health: Pluriversality and Actionable Tools.'
\n \n\n\n \n 24 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOn World Malaria Day 2023, the global fight against malaria has hit a critical point in Africa. Recent studies have confirmed that malaria parasites resistant to artemisinin have emerged in Rwanda, Uganda and the Horn of Africa.
\n \n\n\n \n 21 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOn 23 March, experts in medicine quality and substandard and falsified (SF) medicines gathered in Oxford for an informal one-day meeting following the workshop \u2018The relationship between substandard and falsified antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance and patient outcomes\u2019. Over 60 participants from multiple countries attended the meeting in the Theatre of the Department of Sociology at Oxford, and participated in focussed discussions and intense sharing of challenges and successes in medicine quality and countering SF medicines. Mainly from academia, participants also included representatives from international organisations, the private sector and NGOs.
\n \n\n\n \n 14 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new consortium MARC SE-Africa (Mitigating Antimalarial Resistance Consortium in Southern and East Africa) responds to a growing crisis in malaria, one of the greatest infectious challenges facing Africa.
\n \n\n\n \n 12 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers from the Nuffield Department of Medicine\u2019s KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme and the University of Oxford have recently reported promising results from a phase 1 clinical trial of their ChAdOx1 RVF vaccine against Rift Valley fever in humans.
\n \n\n\n \n 11 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) is delighted to announce that Dr James Watson has been appointed as the new Associate Director from March 2023.
\n \n\n\n \n 6 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOUCRU study explored why participants made decisions to participate in clinical trials and outlined ways to improve participants\u2019 experience during the informed consent process.
\n \n\n\n \n 5 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFunded by Wellcome, ACORN (A Clinically-Oriented antimicrobial Resistance Network) is an AMR surveillance project that collects clinical and microbiology data on community- and hospital-acquired infections. ACORN will assess the impacts of AMR on the duration of hospitalisation and mortality in collaboration with the WHO Global AMR Surveillance System (GLASS) team.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nFlorence I. 'Cuppy' Otedola, an international DJ and music producer and Oxford alumna, has announced a gift of \u00a3100,000 to the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx) to support African graduate students at the University of Oxford.
\n \n\n\n \n 4 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nKWTRP hosted the 2nd Advanced workshop for Bioinformatics workflows between 27th -31st March with 28 participants from Kenya, Uganda, DRC-Congo, Malawi and Nigeria, with support from NGS Academy for the Africa Pathogen Genomics Initiative.
\n \n\n\n \n 3 April 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOver the last three months, IHTM students have been preparing policy briefs to present to the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTDs.
\n \n\n\n \n 31 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe NeoSep1 trial team hosted a site initiation visit which included a training conducted by the Trial Management Group that includes St. George\u2019s Hospital in London and the UK Medical Research Council\u2019s Clinical Trial Unit. NeoSep1 trial is a randomised controlled trial to improve antibiotic treatment for babies.
\n \n\n\n \n 24 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new WWARN study has found that nearly two-thirds of the malaria-positive patients who present to health facilities are systematically excluded from \u201cclassical\u201d anti-malarial treatment efficacy trials.
\n \n\n\n \n 22 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOUCRU and HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases host a one-day research dissemination workshop for policy, healthcare, community, and research stakeholders. The workshop is the culmination of an OUCRU project: \u201cCommunity-based participatory research to promote engagement with underserved communities at risk of Hepatitis C virus in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam\u201d.
\n \n\n\n \n 22 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOUCRU Public and Community Engagement team produced a video based on their project \u201cCommunity-based participatory research to promote engagement with underserved communities at risk of Hepatitis C virus in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam\u201d. This video was made by community members of the community-based participatory research to the project. The video is in Vietnamese with English subtitles
\n \n\n\n \n 16 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Science for Africa Foundation launched the Developing Excellence in Leadership Training and Science in Africa (DELTAS Africa II) on 14th March 2023 in Nairobi Kenya. DELTAS Africa II brings together 14 grantees from across the continent including The Initiative to Develop African Research Leaders (IDeAL), based at the KEMRI \u2013 Wellcome Trust Research Programme.
\n \n\n\n \n 15 March 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIDDO works with researchers in disease-affected communities to address their key priorities and improve patient outcomes; we share knowledge, deliver collaborative analyses, and ensure academic recognition for all data contributors. The World Economic Forum recently blogged on our work. \"There are key initiatives globally which leverage the power of data to help fight infectious diseases, and IDDO is at the forefront \u2026 Crucially, what is needed is more information to understand the distribution of infectious diseases and to optimise the use of current medicines.\u201d
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\n \n\n \n \n \nTreating patients ill with severe scrub typhus \u2013 a life-threatening infection that kills tens of thousands of people a year - with a combination of intravenous antibiotics doxycycline and azithromycin is significantly more effective than the current monotherapy of using either drug alone, say researchers in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe three presentations and expert discussion by Dr Rob Commons, Dr Alison Roth and Dr James Watson, chaired by Professor Sir Nicholas White (Mahidol Oxford Research Unit) and Dr Chau Nguyen Hoang (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit), are now available.
\n \n\n\n \n 21 February 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \n21 Feb 2023 Oxford UK - High doses of the drug ivermectin, controversially recommended by some high-profile political and media figures during the COVID-19 pandemic, is ineffective at treating the COVID-19 virus, say University of Oxford-affiliated researchers in a study published today in eLife.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nClinical Researcher Shobhana Nagraj, from the Health Systems Collaboratives in Oxford, tells us about the female role models who inspired her to follow her dreams
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWomen have made significant contribution in research despite the numerous challenges they face. To celebrate the women and girls in science we asked some women at KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research programme to share their journey in research, their achievements, and a word of advice to fellow women in science.
\n \n\n\n \n 7 February 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nDART (Dengue Advanced Readiness Tools), is a new project supported by Wellcome to use climate data to better predict and prepare for infectious diseases outbreaks.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) has begun a Phase II trial to demonstrate that R21/matrix M is well-tolerated and immunogenic when administered with the antimalarial drug combination.
\n \n\n\n \n 10 January 2023\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA recent multidisciplinary pilot study, originating from LOMWRU and the Medicine Quality Research Group of IDDO and MORU, investigated whether bacterial, plant, fungal and animal DNA in the ingredients and from the environment (eDNA) could be detected from falsified (aka counterfeit) tablets.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nWe are delighted to announce that Ricardo Aguas has been awarded the Associate Professor title, in recognition of his achievements, contribution to teaching, and contribution to the general work of the Nuffield Department of Medicine.
\n \n\n\n \n 23 December 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nPhotographs have the power to inform and engage viewers. Earlier this year,\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0invited submissions for Highlights, the publication\u2019s annual photography competition.\u00a0Highlights 2022\u00a0featured 14 winning photographs telling stories from a wide variety of health-related topics that captured the world\u2019s attention in 2022. One of the powerful images selected was\u00a0from Pearl Gan, OUCRU\u2019s Photographer in Residence.
\n \n\n\n \n 23 December 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nOn 15-16 Dec, COPCOV investigators from around the world met in Bangkok to review study results and plan next steps. Led by co-PIs Prof Sir Nick White and Dr Will Schilling, and funded by the Wellcome Trust, the MORU-led COPCOV ( Chloroquine prevention of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the healthcare setting) is the world\u2019s largest multinational trial of COVID-19 prevention.
\n \n\n\n \n 20 December 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nIn the wake of high-profile reports on the devastating toll human activity has had on global biodiversity, nations are expected to adopt the Convention on Biodiversity post-2020 framework that outlines measures to ensure humans live in harmony with nature.
\n \n\n\n \n 20 December 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe number of studies reporting antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data has increased in Africa, South and South East Asia according to new research in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
\n \n\n\n \n 6 December 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nResearchers analysing clinical trial data for the new antimalarial drug tafenoquine find that higher doses are needed to cure reliably vivax malaria infection.
\n \n\n\n \n 6 December 2022\n \n
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\n \n\n \n \n \nKWTRP hosted the launch of the VAnguard research project. The NIHR Funded Project Builds Knowledge-base on Factors Influencing Vaccine Impact among Communities in Kenya and Uganda. The project aims to strengthen collaborations between national and international stakeholders in the identification of social and biological factors that impair vaccine impact in African communities, to develop integrated strategies and recommendations to optimize vaccine impact, and to contribute to health equity in Africa. The launch concurrently took place in Kenya and Uganda from 28th \u2013 30th November 2022.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nThe inauguration of a new joint Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) and Borderland Health Foundation (BHF) Building took place in Mae Ramat, Thailand, this week.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nContinually monitoring malaria parasite populations is necessary to prevent outbreaks of previously dormant multidrug-resistant malaria strains, say University of Oxford researchers. Multidrug-resistant malaria parasite strains can rapidly grow or collapse in response to public health policy changes, say the researchers in a study published today in The Lancet.
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\n \n\n \n \n \nA new WWARN meta-analysis, commissioned by the World Health Organization and which informed a change to its treatment guidelines, has been published in The Lancet. The study provides compelling evidence that artemether-lumefantrine should now replace quinine as the treatment of choice in the first trimester.
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