LCNTDR An Innovative Research Collaboration: Research Highlights 2019
31 Jan 2019
An Innovative Research Collaboration: Selected Research Highlights 2019
Short articles highlighting the wide array of LCNTDR members research. Articles assess the background, need and impact of the research project.
- Towards the eradication of parasitic worms in Ethiopia: the Geshiyaro project - Dr Anna Phillips
- Investigating the immunological basis of scarring trachoma - Dr Tamsyn Derrick
- Arboviruses: early warning systems and optimized control strategies - Dr Laith Yakob
- Optimising WHO’s treatment strategies for schistosomiasis - Dr Jaspreet Toor & Prof Sir Roy M Anderson
- Schistosomiasis elimination research in Zanzibar - Prof David Rollinson
- Supporting the response to the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak - Dr Anne Cori & Dr Natsuko Imai
- DeWorm3: Demonstrating the feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths - Catherine Wheeler
- A xenomonitoring system for visceral leishmaniasis in India - Shannon McIntyre
- Identifying the best surgical management to treat the blinding stage of trachoma - Dr Esmael Habtamu Ali
- FibroScHot – Eliminating childhood fibrosis by optimizing treatment of schistosomiasis hotspots - Prof Joanne Webster & Dr Elsa Leger
- Evaluating the impact of deworming strategies for Loa loa - Charles Whittaker, Prof Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Dr Martin Walker, Dr Sébastien Pion, Dr Cédric Chesnais & Dr Michel Boussinesq
- Improved control of bovine brucellosis in Punjab - Prof Javier Guitian
- Spatial analysis of cysticercosis in Colombia - Dr Erika Galipò, Dr Kim Stevens, Dr Martin Walker, Matthew Dixon, Dr Zulma Cucunubá, Prof Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Astrid Carolina Florez
- Understanding how to retain, motivate and improve the performance of community drug distributors - Dr Alison Krentel
- Why moving populations makes onchocerciasis elimination more difficult - Plummer Hamilton, Dr Simon O’Hanlon, Philip Milton, Prof Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Dr Martin Walker, Dr Mike Y. Osei-Atweneboana
- Thinking critically about trachoma and its public health strategies - Dr Maddy Gupta-Wright