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, 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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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

08 Aug 2018

Occurrence of Schistosoma bovis on Pemba Island, Zanzibar: implications for urogenital schistosomiasis transmission monitoring

Parasitology

Peer-reviewed article

07 Aug 2018

Precision mapping: An innovative tool and way forward to shrink the map, better target interventions, and accelerate toward the elimination of schistosomiasis

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

Peer-reviewed article

01 Aug 2018

Smartphone-based screening for visual impairment in Kenyan school children: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Lancet Global Health

Peer-reviewed article

01 Aug 2018

A diagnostic instrument to help field graders evaluate active trachoma

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Peer-reviewed article

@NTDResearch on Twitter

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RT @DrJosephTurner: new post-doc position available to work on @LSTMnews @NTDCOUNTDOWN project researching #onchocerciasis elimination… https://t.co/RpcbIMfuSe

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In 2009 @pahowho became the first region to introduce a regional policy on research for health in the americas. A… https://t.co/UEqzPGY4GG

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Got a bold research idea to #beatNTDs? @WellcomeTrust launches new £250m Leap Fund, to take on high-risk ideas aim… https://t.co/Mj80Hh5fdX

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RT @MRC_Outbreak: We are looking to appoint up to 5 academic posts in the following areas: Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Global H… https://t.co/cVyhhfanzz

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@googlemaps to work with @UNEnvironment to provide free access to real-time environmental data showing human’s impa… https://t.co/4kdMfk80fJ

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Did you know that alongside it's dinosaurs & floating whales the @NHM_London also holds one of the world's largest… https://t.co/vk4ZC9MeWm

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New #NTDs research Occurrence of Schistosoma bovis on Pemba Island, Zanzibar: implications for #schistosomiasis tr… https://t.co/7hEhJl5gRi

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New #NTDs research: Precision mapping: An innovative tool and way forward to shrink the map, better target… https://t.co/Y7zpT6fci7

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New #NTDs research - Socioeconomic risk markers of #leprosy in high-burden countries: A systematic review and met… https://t.co/CM8Fc4CVi1

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Schistosomiasis's response to a changing world - Can we keep up?

New free online training course for Visceral leishmaniasis

SCAN: Schistosomiasis Collection at the Natural History Museum

Neglected Tropical Diseases and Disability - What is the Link?

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

Occurrence of Schistosoma bovis on Pemba Island, Zanzibar: implications for urogenital schistosomiasis transmission monitoring

Precision mapping: An innovative tool and way forward to shrink the map, better target interventions, and accelerate toward the elimination of schistosomiasis

Smartphone-based screening for visual impairment in Kenyan school children: a cluster randomised controlled trial

A diagnostic instrument to help field graders evaluate active trachoma

@NTDResearch on Twitter

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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
Giardiasis
Human African trypanosomiasis
Leishmaniasis
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Loa loa
Lymphatic filariasis
Non-falciparum malaria
Onchocerciasis
Plasmodium
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Africa
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--Tunisia
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--Burkina Faso
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--Côte d'Ivoire
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--Sierra Leone
--Togo
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--Guadeloupe
--Haiti
--Jamaica
--Martinique
--Montserrat
--Puerto Rico
--Saint Barthélemy
--Saint Kitts and Nevis
--Saint Lucia
--Saint Martin (French part)
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Arminder Deol
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Maria Inês Neves
Tansy Edwards
Tara Mtuy
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 Lesley Drake
Dr Maddy Gupta-Wright
Dr Martin Hall
Dr Martin Walker
Dr Michael Marks
Dr Michael Templeton
Dr Rachel Pullan
Dr Sakib Burza
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Dr Steve Walker
Dr Zulma M. Cucunubá
Professor Alan Fenwick
Professor Alison Elliott
Professor Christl Donnelly
Professor David Mabey
Professor David Rollinson
Professor Deirdre Hollingsworth
Professor Dirk Pfeiffer
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

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

Anthropology
Bacteriology
Behavioural economics
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics
Biology
Biostatistics
Cellular biology
Chemotherapy
Child health
Clinical Epidemiology
Clinical immunology
Clinical Medicine
Clinical Research
Clinical trials
Clinical Tropical Medicine
Data collection
Development studies
Diagnostics
Disease control
Drug development
Ecology
Economics
Engineering
Entomology
Epidemiology
Genetic diversity
Genetic epidemiology
Genetic sampling
Genetics
Genomics
GIS/Spatial analysis
Health economics
Health inequalities
History
Host-parasite relationships
Hygiene
Immunoepidemiology
Immunology
Immunopathology
Impact evaluations
Implementation science
Infectious disease policy
Informing policy
Mathematical modelling
Medical anthropology
Medicine
Microbiology
Mobile technologies
Modelling
Molecular biology
Molecular diagnostics
molecular epidemiology
Molecular Genetics
Network analysis
Nutrition
Operational research
Opthalmology
Parasitology
Pathogen genomics
Pathogenesis
Pharmacology
Phylogenetics
Policy science
Population genetics
Process evaluations
Programmatic research
Programme evaluation
Public health
Science & technology studies
Science Communication
Sexual health
Social sciences
Sociology
Spatial epidemiology
Statistical analysis
Statistics
synthetic biology
Taxonomy
Toxoplasmosis
Transmission biology
Transmission studies
Vaccinology
Vector biology
Vector Control
Virology
Water and sanitation
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
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--Netherlands
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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