LCNTDR

Meeting the need for evidence-based research to improve the effectiveness of NTD control programmes

Kenya national school based deworming Day

Answering key questions to inform NTD control policy

Lunchtime in a Kenyan School

An innovative research collaboration bringing together leading experts to tackle neglected tropical diseases

Research collecting field data on trachoma - Image courtesy of Sightsavers

The London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research (LCNTDR) is an innovative research collaboration between Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Natural History Museum and the Royal Veterinary College.

The London Centre brings together leading experts to conduct cutting-edge research to build the evidence base around the design, implementation and evaluation of neglected tropical disease (NTD) control and elimination programmes.

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Submit your abstracts for the LCNTDR NTD scientific research roundtable!

19 Oct 2021

LCNTDR Travel Grant Scheme 2021

08 Oct 2021

New research reveals the complex multi-host-species and multi-parasite-species transmission dynamics of a major disease

07 Oct 2021

LCNTDR rapid fire session at NNN 2021

28 Sep 2021

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WEAR: WEarable Aedes Repellent Technologies

TUMIKIA: evaluation of school- versus community-based deworming on the transmission of STH in coastal Kenya

Measuring the height of a child to identify correct dosages

NTD Modelling Consortium: Reaching the 2020 Goals for human onchocerciasis

DeWorm3: Demonstrating the feasibility of STH elimination

Publications

19 Oct 2021

HAT meeting abstract forms

Peer-reviewed article

08 Oct 2021

Travel grants application form

Peer-reviewed article

06 Sep 2021

Environmental limits of Rift Valley fever revealed using ecoepidemiological mechanistic models

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

Peer-reviewed article

08 Aug 2021

Addressing the global snakebite crisis with geo-spatial analyses – Recent advances and future direction

Toxicon X

Peer-reviewed article

@NTDResearch on Twitter

LCNTDR is hosting a series of research roundtables to convene global NTD researchers to discuss opportunities for collaboration to accelerate targets towards HAT and #NTDroadmap2030 targets! If you are an NTD researcher, visit our website to learn more. https://t.co/4j6mUhKsL0

8 hours 4 min ago

New @NTDResearch demonstrates how zoonotic spillover and complex interactions between pathogen species, such as parasite hybridization, may facilitate the spread of NTDs, such as schistosomiasis beyond their original geographical boundaries. #beatNTDs https://t.co/iRhu6usPJD

8 hours 5 min ago

#DidYouKnow that only 3 percent of the population in Africa is vaccinated against #Covid19? @Sightsavers explains how, thanks to partners, networks and decades of experience, its #NTD programmes have the ability to support vaccination rollout in Africa. https://t.co/uYzLdJH9YG

2 days 8 hours ago

3 days 10 hours ago

The @NTD_NGOs way is matching commitment w/ actions - for #GlobalHandwashingDay they updated their commitment to achieve #HandHygiene for all through: ✔️Political leadership ✔️Enabling environment ✔️Sustainable, inclusive #NTDs programming at scale https://t.co/wuYd22M54t

1 week 15 hours ago

“If we are to have an enduring impact on the lives of those we serve, we must prioritize #WASH in our programs and investments.” Watch @NTD_NGOs Chair Arielle Dolegui’s statement here for #GlobalHandwashingDay. https://t.co/aZySF7V0VG

1 week 16 hours ago

RT @ehardingesch: For #WorldSightDay, celebrate the global community that's supported >50(!) countries to be surveyed for trachoma, a preventable #NTD that causes blindness Meet some of the #TropicalData team leading this work to #EndTrachoma @Sightsavers @RTIfightsNTDs @ITIatlanta @LSHTM @WHO https://t.co/508L0HcPOD

1 week 1 day ago

Significant progress has been made to eliminate river blindness since the Mectizan Donation Program launched in 1987. The @WHO #NTDroadmap2030 now provides a blueprint to achieve elimination of transmission by 2030. #WorldSightDay #StampOutOncho https://t.co/8ewjaSkvDU

1 week 1 day ago

The Alma-Ata Declaration states all “people have the right to participate in the planning & implementation of their health care”. This #WorldSightDay let’s reaffirm @NTD_NGOs commitment to the participation of people affected by NTDs. #beatNTDs https://t.co/E4RzYaya3G

1 week 1 day ago

An integrated people-centred eye care approach is needed to #endtrachoma and #onchocerciasis. Learn how the approach improves the sustainability of programs, equity and strengthens health systems in @WHO’s World Report on Vision. #beatNTDs https://t.co/gUS1fnjir5 #WorldSightDay

1 week 1 day ago

To #beatNTDs and achieve #VisionForAll will require comprehensive programs that bring together eye health, WASH, education and finance. The @WHO #NTDroadmap2030 provides a blueprint to improve collaboration in support of shared goals. #WorldSightDay https://t.co/09dFvarG5E

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News

Submit your abstracts for the LCNTDR NTD scientific research roundtable!

LCNTDR Travel Grant Scheme 2021

New research reveals the complex multi-host-species and multi-parasite-species transmission dynamics of a major disease

LCNTDR rapid fire session at NNN 2021

The NTD research directory.

Search our Projects

Search our Researchers

Selected Research Projects

WEAR: WEarable Aedes Repellent Technologies

TUMIKIA: evaluation of school- versus community-based deworming on the transmission of STH in coastal Kenya

NTD Modelling Consortium: Reaching the 2020 Goals for human onchocerciasis

DeWorm3: Demonstrating the feasibility of STH elimination

Publications

HAT meeting abstract forms

Travel grants application form

Environmental limits of Rift Valley fever revealed using ecoepidemiological mechanistic models

Addressing the global snakebite crisis with geo-spatial analyses – Recent advances and future direction

@NTDResearch on Twitter

Members

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Imperial College London

Natural History Museum

Royal Veterinary College

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Arboviruses
Avian influenza
Buruli Ulcer
Chagas
Chikungunya
Dengue
Dicrocoeliosis
Ebola
Food-borne trematodiases
Human African trypanosomiasis
Leishmaniasis
Leprosy
Loa loa
Lymphatic filariasis
Onchocerciasis
Rabies
Scabies
Schistosomiasis
Snakebites
Soil transmitted helminths
Taeniasis/cysticercosis
Toxoplasmosis
Trachoma
Trypanosoma brucei
Visceral leishmaniasis
Yaws
Yellow fever
Zika
Zoonoses

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Xenomonitoring

Africa
-Eastern Africa
--Burundi
--Comoros
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--Eritrea
--Ethiopia
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--Madagascar
--Malawi
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--Sudan
--Tunisia
--Western Sahara
-Southern Africa
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--Lesotho
--Namibia
--South Africa
--Swaziland
-Western Africa
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--Burkina Faso
--Cabo Verde
--Côte d'Ivoire
--Gambia
--Ghana
--Guinea
--Guinea-Bissau
--Liberia
--Mali
--Mauritania
--Niger
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--Senegal
--Sierra Leone
--Togo
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--Haiti
--Jamaica
--Martinique
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--Saint Kitts and Nevis
--Saint Lucia
--Saint Martin (French part)
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--Belize
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--El Salvador
--Guatemala
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--Mexico
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--Guyana
--Paraguay
--Peru
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--Uruguay
--Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
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--Australia
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-Melanesia
--Fiji
--New Caledonia
--Papua New Guinea
--Solomon Islands
--Vanuatu
-Micronesia
--Guam
--Kiribati
--Marshall Islands
--Micronesia (Federated States of)
--Nauru
--Northern Mariana Islands
--Palau
-Polynesia
--American Samoa
--Cook Islands
--French Polynesia
--Niue
--Pitcairn
--Samoa
--Tokelau
--Tonga
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--Wallis and Futuna
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Arminder Deol
Maria Inês Neves
Tansy Edwards
Dr Aidan Emery
Dr Amaya Bustinduy
Dr Anna Phillips
Dr Bonnie Webster
Dr Chrissy Roberts
Dr Colin Sutherland
Dr Daniel Martin-Vega
Dr Emma Harding-Esch
Dr James Logan
Dr Judd Walson
Dr Kris Murray
Dr Lesley Drake
Dr Maddy Gupta-Wright
Dr Martin Hall
Dr Martin Walker
Dr Michael Marks
Dr Michael Templeton
Dr Rachel Pullan
Dr Sakib Burza
Dr Sam Alsford
Dr Stephen Cose
Dr Steve Walker
Dr Timothy Littlewood
Dr Zulma M. Cucunubá
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Professor Alan Fenwick
Professor Alison Elliott
Professor Christl Donnelly
Professor David Mabey
Professor David Rollinson
Professor Deirdre Hollingsworth
Professor Dirk Werling
Professor Graham Medley
Professor Joanne Webster
Professor John Kelly
Professor Maria-Gloria Basáñez
Professor Martin Holland
Professor Mary Cameron
Professor Matthew Burton
Professor Robin Bailey
Professor Simon Croft
Professor Sir Roy Anderson

Arboviruses
Avian influenza
Buruli Ulcer
Chagas
Chikungunya
Dengue
Dicrocoeliosis
Ebola
Food-borne trematodiases
Human African trypanosomiasis
Leishmaniasis
Leprosy
Loa loa
Lymphatic filariasis
Onchocerciasis
Rabies
Scabies
Schistosomiasis
Snakebites
Soil transmitted helminths
Taeniasis/cysticercosis
Toxoplasmosis
Trachoma
Trypanosoma brucei
Visceral leishmaniasis
Yaws
Yellow fever
Zika
Zoonoses

Anthropology
Bacteriology
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
Biology
Biostatistics
Chemotherapy
Child health
Climate change
Clinical trials
Demography
Diagnostics
Disease management, disability and inclusion
Drug development
Ecology
Economics
Engineering
Entomology
Epidemiology
Genetics
Genomics
GIS/Spatial analysis
Health economics
Health economics
Health system strengthening
Host-parasite relationships
Immunology
Impact evaluations
Mathematical modelling
Medical anthropology
Mental health and wellbeing
Microbiology
Modelling
Monitoring and evaluation - impact
Monitoring and evaluation - process
Nutrition
One health
Operational research
Parasitology
Pharmacology
Phylogenetics
Public health
Social sciences
Sociology
Statistics
Surveillance
Vaccinology
Vector Control
Virology
WASH
Xenomonitoring

Africa
-Eastern Africa
--Burundi
--Comoros
--Djibouti
--Eritrea
--Ethiopia
--Kenya
--Madagascar
--Malawi
--Mauritius
--Mayotte
--Mozambique
--Réunion
--Rwanda
--Seychelles
--Somalia
--South Sudan
--Tanzania, United Republic of
--Uganda
--Zambia
--Zimbabwe
-Middle Africa
--Angola
--Cameroon
--Central African Republic
--Chad
--Congo
--Congo (Democratic Republic of the)
--Equatorial Guinea
--Gabon
--Sao Tome and Principe
-Northern Africa
--Algeria
--Egypt
--Libya
--Morocco
--Sudan
--Tunisia
--Western Sahara
-Southern Africa
--Botswana
--Lesotho
--Namibia
--South Africa
--Swaziland
-Western Africa
--Benin
--Burkina Faso
--Cabo Verde
--Côte d'Ivoire
--Gambia
--Ghana
--Guinea
--Guinea-Bissau
--Liberia
--Mali
--Mauritania
--Niger
--Nigeria
--Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
--Senegal
--Sierra Leone
--Togo
Americas
-Caribbean
--Anguilla
--Antigua and Barbuda
--Aruba
--Bahamas
--Barbados
--Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
--Cayman Islands
--Cuba
--Curaçao
--Dominica
--Dominican Republic
--Grenada
--Guadeloupe
--Haiti
--Jamaica
--Martinique
--Montserrat
--Puerto Rico
--Saint Barthélemy
--Saint Kitts and Nevis
--Saint Lucia
--Saint Martin (French part)
--Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
--Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
--Trinidad and Tobago
--Turks and Caicos Islands
--Virgin Islands (British)
--Virgin Islands (U.S.)
-Central America
--Belize
--Costa Rica
--El Salvador
--Guatemala
--Honduras
--Mexico
--Nicaragua
--Panama
-Northern America
--Bermuda
--Canada
--Greenland
--Saint Pierre and Miquelon
--United States of America
-South America
--Argentina
--Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
--Brazil
--Chile
--Colombia
--Ecuador
--Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
--French Guiana
--Guyana
--Paraguay
--Peru
--Suriname
--Uruguay
--Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
Antarctica
Asia
-Central Asia
--Kazakhstan
--Kyrgyzstan
--Tajikistan
--Turkmenistan
--Uzbekistan
-Eastern Asia
--China
--Hong Kong
--Japan
--Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)
--Korea (Republic of)
--Macao
--Mongolia
--Taiwan, Province of China
-South-Eastern Asia
--Brunei Darussalam
--Cambodia
--Indonesia
--Lao People's Democratic Republic
--Malaysia
--Myanmar
--Philippines
--Singapore
--Thailand
--Timor-Leste
--Viet Nam
-Southern Asia
--Afghanistan
--Bangladesh
--Bhutan
--India
--Iran (Islamic Republic of)
--Maldives
--Nepal
--Pakistan
--Sri Lanka
-Western Asia
--Armenia
--Azerbaijan
--Bahrain
--Cyprus
--Georgia
--Iraq
--Israel
--Jordan
--Kuwait
--Lebanon
--Oman
--Palestine, State of
--Qatar
--Saudi Arabia
--Syrian Arab Republic
--Turkey
--United Arab Emirates
--Yemen
Bouvet Island
British Indian Ocean Territory
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Europe
-Eastern Europe
--Belarus
--Bulgaria
--Czech Republic
--Hungary
--Moldova (Republic of)
--Poland
--Romania
--Russian Federation
--Slovakia
--Ukraine
-Northern Europe
--Åland Islands
--Denmark
--Estonia
--Faroe Islands
--Finland
--Guernsey
--Iceland
--Ireland
--Isle of Man
--Jersey
--Latvia
--Lithuania
--Norway
--Svalbard and Jan Mayen
--Sweden
--United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
-Southern Europe
--Albania
--Andorra
--Bosnia and Herzegovina
--Croatia
--Gibraltar
--Greece
--Holy See
--Italy
--Macedonia (the former Yugoslav Republic of)
--Malta
--Montenegro
--Portugal
--San Marino
--Serbia
--Slovenia
--Spain
-Western Europe
--Austria
--Belgium
--France
--Germany
--Liechtenstein
--Luxembourg
--Monaco
--Netherlands
--Switzerland
French Southern Territories
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Oceania
-Australia and New Zealand
--Australia
--New Zealand
--Norfolk Island
-Melanesia
--Fiji
--New Caledonia
--Papua New Guinea
--Solomon Islands
--Vanuatu
-Micronesia
--Guam
--Kiribati
--Marshall Islands
--Micronesia (Federated States of)
--Nauru
--Northern Mariana Islands
--Palau
-Polynesia
--American Samoa
--Cook Islands
--French Polynesia
--Niue
--Pitcairn
--Samoa
--Tokelau
--Tonga
--Tuvalu
--Wallis and Futuna
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
United States Minor Outlying Islands