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The third, or Trinity term, of IHTM involves a funded eight-week placement with a global health project in a resource limited setting. Projects represent the range of subjects covered in the course and the project forms the basis of an independent 10,000-word dissertation to be submitted six weeks after the return from placement.

Many of the projects are hosted by the Oxford Tropical Network in various geographic regions.  Projects change from year to year depending on research currently underway. Below are a list of the research project placements undertaken by the 2022 - 2023 cohort of IHTM students.

Project Title

Location of the Project

Research field(s)

Research tool(s)

Assessment of Pilot Study for Colorectal Cancer Screening in Seychelles

Victoria, Seychelles

NCDs

Statistics, health economics

Boosters and barriers to access and coverage of community-based management of acute malnutrition in Urban Montserrado/Grand Bassa, Liberia

Liberia

Nutrition

Statistics

Evaluation of the HemoCue® method for measuring haemoglobin concentrations in malaria patients receiving single low dose primaquine combined with artemether-lumefantrine or dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – A Bland-Altman statistical approach for method comparisons

MORU, Bangkok, Thailand

Infectious Disease (Malaria)

Statistics

Assessing trends in folic acid in falciparum-infected African children treated with artemether-lumefantrine or dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and single low dose primaquine/placebo

MORU, Bangkok, Thailand

Infectious Disease (Malaria)

Statistics

Factors influencing participation and decision-making in malaria human infection studies in Kenya

KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Infectious Disease (Malaria Human Infection Studies)

Statistics

Optimising DTP Booster vaccination in selected LMIC countries

The Modelling and Simulation Hub, Africa (MASHA), Cape Town, South Africa

Infectious disease / Vaccination

Mathematical Modelling

The contribution of medical supply issues to the state of Maternal and Neonatal Health in Liberia - a qualitative exploration

Liberia

RMNCAH

Qualitative

Towards Hepatitis C micro-elimination in Thailand’s prison populations - a cost-effectiveness analysis of screening and treatment policy options

MAMOD, MORU, Bangkok, Thailand

Infectious Diseases (Hepatitis C)

Health Economics

Determinants, knowledge, and practices of antibiotic prescribing in primary healthcare in rural Vietnam

OUCRU, Hanoi, Vietnam

Antimicrobial Resistance

Statistics

Understanding the decision-making patterns of healthcare providers when prescribing antibiotics for sepsis in the absence of diagnostic tests: A structured expert elicitation study in Timor-Leste

Oxford, UK

Antimicrobial Resistance

Expert elicitation

Analysis of global national action plans for AMR through a just transition lens – a scoping review

OUCRU, Hanoi, Vietnam

AMR and Climate Change

Statistics, evidence synthesis, policy review

Conceptual pathways for AMR interventions in the community

Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Antimicrobial Resistance

Statistics

Ethics and Mental Health Research in Ghana

Ghana

Mental health / ethics

Mixed (quantitative-qualitative) / qualitative

Climate change impact as a criterion to inform GAVI’s VIS decision framework

GAVI, Geneva

Vaccines

Document review

A review of the ethics of vaccine prioritisation

 

 

 

Scoping Review of Community Engagement Methods with indigenous and vulnerable communities to understand the impact of climate change for health systems preparedness in rural Kenya

Oxford UK/ KEMRI Wellcome Trust Office in Nairobi

Climate Change

Scoping Review

Diversity and inclusion in the governance of global health organisation

Oxford UK/ WHO, Geneva

Policies

Scoping Review and Survey analysis

Making sense of Global Health in the Global South: a case study of the international affairs observatory at Fiocruz Brazil

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

International Affairs and Health Diplomacy

Qualitative tools / Systematic, scoping or document review tools

Finalize and adapt a regional framework on promoting health and well-being

Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) of the World Health Organization, Egypt

Policies

Scoping or policy review

Exploring the experiences and perceptions of health workers using AI-powered digital health technology for TB active case finding in the Philippines: Implications for sustainability and scale up

 

 

 

Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare - TB screening                  

Philippines

Infectious Diseases (TB)

Quantitative / qualitative

Boosters and barriers to access and coverage of community-based management of acute malnutrition in Urban Montserrado/Grand Bassa, Liberia

 Liberia

Nutrition

Statistics and/or qualitative (FGDs, IDIs)

The Impact of a Global Health National Observatory on International Affairs and Global health diplomacy: A case of the Fiocruz Observatory

 

 

 

Evaluation of the HemoCue® method for measuring haemoglobin concentrations in malaria patients receiving single low dose primaquine combined with artemether-lumefantrine or dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine in a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – A Bland-Altman statistical approach for method comparisons                                                                                                              

 

 

 

Employ mixed methods to understand the gendered impacts of chronic kidney disease and access to treatment in Northern Ghana

Ghana

Diabetes, gender perspectives