This centre investigates how climatic, environmental and social conditions shape health, and how services can respond fairly and effectively across savanna populations.
Climate and Environmental Health
Priorities include heat exposure, occupational health, air quality, climate-sensitive disease, mental health and health-system adaptation. Research will connect environmental conditions with people's everyday exposure and access to care.
Environmental shocks that affect water, food and animal health can quickly create risks for people who depend on dams and surrounding landscapes for water, fishing and livestock.
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
The agenda includes hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, cancer and multimorbidity. We examine prevention, social and behavioural risks and the conditions affecting long-term care.
Infectious and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Research interests include vector and parasite ecology, environmental transmission, surveillance, community interventions and inequalities in prevention and treatment.
We focus on primary and community care, workforce resilience, health financing, digital health, service delivery and policy evaluation. Implementation research asks how evidence-based approaches work in practice, for whom and under what conditions.
Spatial epidemiology, surveillance, exposure modelling and risk assessment can help identify health needs. Their use requires suitable data, validation, privacy protections and careful interpretation.
Proposed work on climate, hypertension and resilient primary care would link environmental and health evidence with decisions about prevention and services. Specific studies will be announced with their confirmed scope, partners, approvals and funding status.
We welcome collaboration with researchers, health institutions, practitioners and community organisations to develop questions that can improve the relevance of evidence to care and policy.