Research at the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development

1. Equity and Social Inclusion: Drivers of exclusion and inclusion in public service | Sustainable inclusion interventions | Research uptake | Community engagement. Theme lead: Dr Ghazala Mir 

2. Health policy and systems research: Policy analysis | Accountability | Digital Health Technologies | Financing | Health workforce. Theme lead: Dr Bassey Ebenso.

3. Improving healthcare: Packages of primary care | non-communicable diseases (cardio-vascular, cancer, diabetes, mental health) | communicable diseases (hepatitis, tuberculosis and COVID-19). Theme lead: Prof John Walley 

4. One Health covering:

   • Antimicrobial resistance: Community engagement | Facility and health systems interventions. Theme lead: Dr Rebecca King 

   • Planetary health: Climate change and health | Resilience | Sustainability. Theme lead: Prof Lea Berrang Ford 

5. Urban Health: Multi-sectoral solutions | Urban poor | Methodological innovations to urbanisation challenges. Theme lead: Prof Tim Ensor 

Equity and social inclusion

• Partnerships for Equity and Inclusion – Capacity building for leadership and addressing inequities in health and other public services

• ADMC – Addressing Depression in Muslim Communities in the UK, Turkey and Pakistan

• CREATE – Building the capacity of civil society organizations to function as change-makers for challenging stigma against people affected by leprosy in India. 

• EEiC – Improving the use of evidence in commissioning and delivery of health services for multi-ethnic populations   

• Inequalities Research Network – Multidisciplinary collaboration to reduce health and social inequities 

• Ethnicity Training Network – knowledge transfer to support cultural competence in health and social services  

• Gendered Health in Small Island Developing States: using an intersectionality approach to examine the persistence of obesity in The Bahamas

• Culturally adapted behavioural activation for the treatment of depression in Turkey

• Incorporating Inequality into economic evaluations: Sierra Leone case study

• Understanding and Responding to Mental Health Stigma in Chinese Youth: Towards a Culturally Acceptable Anti-Stigma Intervention

• Incivility in the NHS: Exploring racial and ethnic minority healthcare workers experiences, the consequences for them and for patient care

Health policy and systems research  

• Capacity Strengthening in Community Engagement: for country teams in Western Pacific Region

• REVAMP: Realist evaluation of a maternal and child health programme in Nigeria  

• RESPONSE: Improving health systems responsiveness in Ghana and Vietnam  

• GHRG-ST: Global Health Research Group on surgical technologies in India and Sierra Leone  

• AMIPS: Understanding gaps in implementation of medicines pricing policies in Ghana  

• EXTEND: digital technology to improve access to healthcare in Nigeria   

• HESVIC: Health systems stewardship and governance for maternal and child health in India, Vietnam and China  

• RESPOND: Improving patient feedback systems in Bangladesh  

• PERFORM: Improving district health management for workforce performance in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda  

• EVAL-HEALTH: Understanding evidence-informed policy in India, Nigeria  

• Digi-Pall: Digital technology for palliative cancer care in Nigeria, Uganda, Zimbabwe  

• Partnerships for Equity and Inclusion – Interventions to reduce inequalities for disadvantaged populations in LMICs 

• CHEPSAA – Improving capacity for health policy and systems research in seven African Universities  

• IMPACT – Global Health Research Group on research capacity building for mental & physical multi-morbidity in Asia  

• School-based smoking prevention intervention in Egypt

• Impact of provider payment reform on hospital efficiency in Kazakhstan

Improving healthcare

• OnTIME Consortium – Google-funded research project estimating closer-to-reality travel time to health facilities providing emergency obstetric care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

• COMDIS-HSD – FCDO funded research programme consortium with portfolio of projects focused on developing and evaluating interventions for communicable and non-communicable disease control in Asia (China, Bangladesh, Nepal) and Africa (Swaziland, Uganda)   

• Social Networks and Infant Mortality – Using participatory methods to improve maternity services in the UK  

• ADMC – Addressing Depression in Muslim Communities in the UK, Turkey and Pakistan 

• Implementation effectiveness of mHealth interventions for surveillance of communicable diseases in the context of sub- Saharan Africa: the case of Tanzania

• The ‘Big Picture’: Understanding mental health research-to-policy pathways in Assam
   

One health:

Antimicrobial resistance  

• CE4AMR – Community engagement for antimicrobial resistance including Community Co-produced AMR education Resources

• Community Dialogues – Engaging with local communities for preventing and controlling antibiotic resistance in Bangladesh  

• CARAN – Community arts against antibiotic resistance through participatory film-making in Nepal  

• COSTAR –  Community Engagement for Anti-microbial Resistance   

Planetary health

• URBANE project: One Health approaches to support transformation of peri-urban farming, and ensure nutrition security and health in Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco, and Senegal)  

• Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change (IHACC) 

• Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative (GAMI)   

• A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change (Nature Climate Change)

• Mapping climate-health evidence: Using machine-learning to map the links between climate change and health (Government report) 

Urban health  

• CHoRUS: FCDO funded research programme consortium focused   on improving urban health systems in West Africa (Ghana, Nigeria) and South Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal)  

• SINC-Urban – Understanding social inclusion within sustainable urban developments in Nigeria and Vietnam  

• SUE – Improving quality and use of data to inform urban health decisions in Bangladesh, Nepal and Vietnam  

• Social Networks and Infant Mortality – Using participatory methods to improve maternity services in the UK  

• Socially Inclusive Cities – Review of key drivers and strategies for social inclusion in Asia, Africa and UK 

• The Relationship between Central Organisations and Local Government and Their Influence on Local Planning Process: A case of council health management team planning in Tanzania