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

02 Dec 2019

Epidemiology of Treponema pallidum, Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Trichomonas vaginalis, and herpes simplex virus type 2 among female sex workers in the Middle East and North Africa: systematic review and meta-analytics

Journal of Global Health

Peer-reviewed article

01 Aug 2019

Genotypic determinants of fluoroquinolone and macrolide resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Sexual Health

Peer-reviewed article

01 Aug 2019

Sustained Low-Level Transmission of Zika and Chikungunya Viruses after Emergence in the Fiji Islands

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Peer-reviewed article

01 Aug 2019

Access to healthcare for children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Brazil: perspectives of mothers and health professionals

Health Policy and Planning

Peer-reviewed article

@NTDResearch on Twitter

RT @AparnaBarua: A perfect example of #NNN2019 partnership and collaboration in practice. Thanks to @TrachomaControl @FredHollows… https://t.co/bR7rFCVzP9

1 day 2 hours ago

RT @dr_michaelmarks: How can modelling inform #Scabies control & @WHO 2030 targets? https://t.co/JYGndW8EPh Our contribution… https://t.co/cG0ZYAxHLs

1 day 2 hours ago

RT @elimin8schisto: #Molecular #diagnostics for #schistosomiasis from @schistoresearch lab. Check out 👉https://t.co/BaqYMWhikj https://t.co/aSJSQp2Gnz

1 day 15 hours ago

Great work by @obi_eneanya & colleagues! #beatNTDs https://t.co/4mrcZfjWXZ

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That’s a wrap for @NTDResearch at #ECTMIH2019! Thank you to our wonderful presenters & everyone who came to hear us… https://t.co/aixs7wpmtb

1 day 22 hours ago

RT @sci_ntds: Thank you @davey_gail for your wonderful leadership! And welcome @YaobiZ as our new @NTD_NGOs Chair! #NNN2019… https://t.co/KJVi0M69uO

1 day 23 hours ago

RT @RebeccaMintrim: Thanks to everyone who came to the 'Reporting from the field - communications toolkit launch' today at #NNN2019! It… https://t.co/RUOF12wD9G

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RT @bugbittentweets: https://t.co/aCwNNV2ERp @NTDResearch #ECTMIH2019 #NTD

2 days 43 min ago

#schistosomiasis: What does a trace result on a POC-CCA test tell you, can a trace result be taken as a true positi… https://t.co/rDvC83FHJi

2 days 43 min ago

Up now: @schistoresearch Bonnie Webster from @NHM_Science presenting molecular diagnostics for urogenital… https://t.co/TmadliClAH

2 days 57 min ago

Tapan Bhattacharyya from @LSHTM presenting now on rapid diagnostic tests for #chagas and visceral leishmaniasis… https://t.co/XvJCyxlh02

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We are underway in Room 1B! Is qPCR the solution to our #diagnostic dilemmas? Or does microscopy still ‘outsmart’… https://t.co/Qhx5anEdeA

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LCNTDR Travel Grant Scheme 2019

LCNTDR Research Afternoon - Trachoma Special, 5th Sept 2019

WHO announce a 91% drop in trachoma risk since 2002

The NTD research directory.

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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

Epidemiology of Treponema pallidum, Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Trichomonas vaginalis, and herpes simplex virus type 2 among female sex workers in the Middle East and North Africa: systematic review and meta-analytics

Genotypic determinants of fluoroquinolone and macrolide resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Sustained Low-Level Transmission of Zika and Chikungunya Viruses after Emergence in the Fiji Islands

Access to healthcare for children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Brazil: perspectives of mothers and health professionals

@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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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
Snakebites
Soil transmitted helminths
Taeniasis/cysticercosis
Theileria
Toxoplasmosis
Trachoma
Trypanosoma brucei
Visceral leishmaniasis
Yaws
Yellow fever
Zika
Zoonoses

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molecular epidemiology
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synthetic biology
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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
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-Caribbean
--Anguilla
--Antigua and Barbuda
--Aruba
--Bahamas
--Barbados
--Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
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--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.)
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--Belize
--Costa Rica
--El Salvador
--Guatemala
--Honduras
--Mexico
--Nicaragua
--Panama
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--Bermuda
--Canada
--Greenland
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Dr Emma Harding-Esch
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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
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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
Snakebites
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
Climate change
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
Environmental Change
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
Mathematics
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
Software engineer
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
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--Bulgaria
--Czech Republic
--Hungary
--Moldova (Republic of)
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--Russian Federation
--Slovakia
--Ukraine
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--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)
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--Montenegro
--Portugal
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--Spain
-Western Europe
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--Luxembourg
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French Southern Territories
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Oceania
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--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