Potential Projects: Global Health
2023-24 MRC LID Studentships – potential projects under the Global Health theme.
| Supervisors | Project Title | Cross Institutional Supervision | Theme/s | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amiya Bhatia & Daniel Carter & Karen Devries | How do childhood contexts affect violence against young people as they grow up? A quantitative, longitudinal and intersectional analysis of cohort data in Uganda. | No | Global Health; Health Data Science | Social epidemiology; violence against children; causal inference; intersectionality; inequality |
| Amaya Bustinduy & Sanjeev Krishna & Bonnie Webster | Development, implementation and assessment of isothermal point-of-care molecular diagnostics for both Female Genital Schistosomiasis and Human Papillomavirus | Yes | Translational & Implementation Research; Global Health; Infectious Disease | Isothermal diagnostics; multiplex, neglected tropical diseases; schistosomiasis; human papillomavirus |
| Jon Friedland & Deborah Chong | The role of platelet-fibroblast interactions in the pathology of pulmonary tuberculosis | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health | Tuberculosis; Innate immunity; Fibroblasts; Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs); Platelets |
| Giorgia Gon & Sarah Whitmee & Rosemary Green | Social norms for climate change transformation | No | Global Health | Social norms; climate change transformation |
| Ozan Gundogdu & Brendan Wren | Campylobacter pathogenesis: the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR), inflammation and human disease | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health | Campylobacter, Gastroenteritis; inflammation; Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) |
| Sally Hargreaves & Julia Pescarini & Nuria Sanchez Clemente | Migrant health in children and young people in Europe: An analysis of Europe-wide routine datasets | Yes | Global Health | Migrant; children; young people; infectious diseases; sexual health; screening |
| Gwen Knight & Jodi Lindsay | Antimicrobial Resistance Diversity: quantification, evolution, and importance for public health | Yes | Infectious Disease; Health Data Science; Global Health; Translational & Implementation Research | Antimicrobial resistance; mathematical modelling; MRSA; resistance diversity; intervention impact |
| Julian Ma & Audrey Teh | Engineering monoclonal secretory antibodies for mucosal immunotherapy | No | Infectious Disease; Translational & Implementation Research; Global Health | Antibody engineering; mucosal immunotherapy; molecular farming; passive immunisation |
| Finn McQuaid & Gwen Knight | Comparing drug-resistant tuberculosis empirical treatment choices | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health; Health Data Science | Tuberculosis; Drug-resistance; Modelling; Health Economics |
| Lucy Pembrey & Phil Cooper & Karin Van Veldhoven | Defining new asthma phenotypes using high dimensional data | Yes | Health Data Science; Global Health | Big data; Biomarkers; Asthma; Microbiome; Epigenomics |
| Chrissy Roberts & Amaya Bustinduy | Data science platforms for enhanced analytics and monitoring of female genital schistosomiasis and related health impacts | No | Health Data Science; Infectious Disease; Global Health | Machine Learning; Technology; Female Genital Schistosomiasis; Mixed Methods; Programming; Sexual and Reproductive health |
| Anoop Shah & Poppy Mallinson & Alex Lewin | Applying deep learning to cardiac imaging to understand the pathology of premature heart disease in South Asian populations | No | Health Data Science; Global Health | Cardiac pathology; echocardiography; imaging; deep learning; statistics; disease mechanisms; India |
| Henry Staines & Elisabetta Groppelli | Development and evaluation of novel point-of-need cervical cancer screening devices to improve women’s health in low resource settings | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health | Molecular biology; PCR; Diagnostics; Infectious diseases; Cervical cancer |
| Henry Staines & Kirsty Le Doare & Elisabetta Groppelli | Impact of climate change on human health: detection of known and emerging mosquito-transmitted arboviruses in East Africa | No | Infectious Disease; Global Health | Molecular virology; Diagnostic development; Climate change impact on human health |