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).
The call will look to establish partnerships and support collaborative projects around the priority areas of novel diagnostics technologies for infectious diseases of high burden in LMIC settings driving validation of prototypes towards implementation in the clinical setting by on the ground testing in relevant patient populations and global health settings. The focus will be on diagnostic technologies for tropical and infectious diseases which can be cross-cutting to include novel tools, devices, platform technologies, and/or digital health solutions for diseases of high burden in LMIC settings, with the goal of driving an increase in translational research initiatives in the global health arena.
Oxford employed PIs based in Oxford (UK) or MORU Tropical Health Network (Thailand) are encouraged to apply with at least one PI being based in Oxford, UK. Given the increased awareness and demand following last year’s round, we are also pleased to announce the broadening the call this year to include Oxford-employed PIs based at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) locations either in Vietnam, Nepal, or Indonesia, along with Oxford employed PIs based in MORU’s sister research unit sites including SMRU and CCRU in Thailand, LOMWRU in Laos, COMRU in Cambodia, MOCRU in Myanmar.