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About

The University of Oxford has a large concentration of Global Health (GH) and tropical healthcare activities, comprising diverse world-class research undertaken by its researchers based in both Oxford and its long-established Wellcome-funded overseas research and capacity-building programmes in Africa and Southeast Asia.

The outputs and outcomes from GH research are broad reaching, bringing significant impact across all academic disciplines of medicine, the physical and life sciences, social sciences and humanities. The overseas centres provide comprehensive clinical and public health research programmes entirely focussed on the discovery and development of appropriate, practical, affordable interventions that measurably improve the health of people living in resource-limited parts of the world.

Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), with its integrated, highly collaborative and flexible network of 5 research units and 50 sites across South East Asia, supports and conducts targeted patient-centred research addressing global and regional health problems. Current research strengths are the development of effective and practical means of diagnosing and treating tropical and infectious diseases.

The Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) is a longstanding overseas unit established by the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, and the Wellcome Trust. It functions as a large-scale clinical and public health research unit based in Vietnam, hosted by the Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, and the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi with sister units in Kathmandu, Nepal and Jakarta, Indonesia.

Introduction to “Diagnostics in Tropical and Infectious Diseases (DiTi)”

This call, first piloted in 2023, is in collaboration with Mahidol Oxford Translational Innovation Partnership (MOTIP), funded by Wellcome IP Revenue Retention funds, and the institution translational partnership award (iTPA) by Wellcome (MORU, based in Bangkok, Thailand). This call aims to strengthen the long-term partnership between Oxford University and, the Faculty of Tropical Medicine (FTM), Mahidol University (Thailand) through the newly established tropical medicine diagnostic development centre (Tropmed_DC).

Collaboration requirement

Oxford-employed PIs based in Oxford (UK), the MORU Tropical Health Network (Thailand), or the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) sites in Vietnam, Nepal, or Indonesia are encouraged to apply.

To strengthen partnerships across our global research network, applications must demonstrate genuine collaboration across sites:

  • Oxford-employed PIs based in Oxford (UK), the MORU Tropical Health Network (Thailand, including SMRU, CCRU, LOMWRU, COMRU, and MOCRU), or the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) (Vietnam, Nepal, Indonesia) are all eligible to apply.
  • Projects must include investigators from at least two of these sites.
  • Applications where all PIs and collaborators are based within a single unit will not be eligible
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