Public and International Health
The Public and International Health Strategic Research Theme aims to advance understanding of the determinants and distribution of health and disease across populations and to design and evaluate policies and practices which improve disease prevention and health care delivery.
The Faculty of Medicine has a wide range of internationally recognised programmes of research in public and international health. Recent projects include mathematical modelling of the foot and mouth epidemic, international studies of the effects of mobile ‘phone use on health, investigation into the cancer risks of living near overhead power lines and studies of behavioural aspects of drug use.
Major studies of interventions against diseases associated with poverty, for example HIV, TB amd helminth infections, cover a range of individual and community-level approaches to care and prevention.
The research of the Public and International Health Strategic Theme benefits from close collaboration with other research strategy areas. Cardiovascular and respiratory disease epidemiology, for example, is carried out in collaboration with the Heart and Lung Research Theme.
Strategic Theme Leader for Public and International Health: Professor Geoff Garnett (g.garnett@imperial.ac.uk).
Ultrasound examination targeting liver enlargement in Mali.
Health screening in Zimbabwe
Training session in Harare.
Collective Fishing in in Mali, a common means of Schistosomiasis transmission from snail to human hosts, often with serious health consequences.
Health interviews in Zimbabwe.
Map of England, Scotland and Wales, showing 2km zones around landfill sites (red) and reference area (grey). Elliott et al (2001) Risk of adverse birth outcomes in populations living near landfill sites. BMJ 323:363-368.
Children's health programme in Uganda.
