Our projects

Coordinated development of regulatory systems in Southern AfricaThe SEARCH II project is strengthening and harmonising regulatory structures in Southern and Eastern African countries.

Enhancing artificial intelligence detection of tuberculosisThe AddiCAD project is advancing a new digital tool that combines AI analysis of chest X-rays with protein biomarker data to...

Building ethics review and regulatory capacity in East AfricaThe ACCESSAFRICA2 project is strengthening ethics review and regulatory capacity in Ethiopia and Uganda.

Establishing a research integrity frameworkThe SERCEA project aims to strengthen mechanisms that promote and ensure the integrity of scientific research in East Africa.

Preventing chikungunya infectionsThe ACT-CHIK project is advancing a new vaccine against the chikungunya virus to address its growing burden on African populations and health systems.

Simplifying treatment of neglected skin diseasesThe TEBULA project is advancing a potentially revolutionary new treatment for two neglected mycobacterial diseases: leprosy and Buruli ulcer.

Widening genomic surveillance in Southern and Eastern AfricaThe GenPath Africa project is expanding existing genomic surveillance infrastructure to capture information on drug-resistant...

Advancing malaria treatments for pregnant womenAdditional Global Health EDCTP3 funding is completing the evaluation of a new antimalarial treatment for pregnant women.

Preventing the return of tuberculosis The RECENT-TB project is exploring whether a course of preventive antibiotics after TB treatment can prevent disease recurrence and how to target those...

Building ‘One Health’ surveillance capacityThe PHM Hub project is strengthening epidemiology and disease-modelling capacity in West and Central Africa, with a particular focus on the human...

Mitigating the risk of antimalarial resistanceThe MARC-SE Africa project is enabling key countries in Africa to track and respond to rising rates of resistance to antimalarial drugs.

Community-based care for vulnerable children after hospital dischargeThe SDx project is assessing whether digital tools can enable community health workers to maintain contact with...

An adaptive trial platform for testing neonatal sepsis treatmentsThe SNIP-AFRICA project is establishing a research platform with an innovative trial design that will enable multiple...

Speeding up the diagnosis of tuberculosis meningitisThe PRECISE-TBM project aims to accelerate the detection of tuberculous meningitis, the deadliest form of TB that is a particular threat...

Accelerating genomic surveillance researchThe NGS4PublicHealth project is helping to coordinate and provide additional support to a group of projects funded through the Global Health EDCTP3...

Advancing a next-generation malaria vaccineThe PfVIMT project will move an innovative transmission-blocking malaria vaccine a major step towards authorisation.

Advancing a multivalent TB vaccineThe T5-TBVAC project is introducing a BCG-based human challenge model in Uganda to accelerate the evaluation of a candidate tuberculosis vaccine and using...

Advancing ‘triple therapy’ for malariaThe EDCTP2-funded ASAAP study has received additional Global Health EDCTP3 funding to complete its evaluation of a novel ‘triple therapy’ for malaria.

Using point-of-care ultrasound to guide treatment of chest infectionsThe IMCI-PLUS project is promoting greater use of point-of-care ultrasound to improve the detection of bacterial...

Optimising malaria vaccine booster deliveryThe SMV delivery project is exploring when and how to provide booster doses of malaria vaccine to children in areas with seasonal transmission to...