Current research projects

• Access to Health Services for Key population in Tanzania
  This project aims to work with KP communities to increase access to health services through studying factors which influence the use of health services (pull and push factors) and test the effectiveness of CHIP delivery modalities with and for them in Tanzania.
  
  
• Health and Antibiotics in Vietnamese Pig Production
  The VIDA-PIG project will use established ‘One Health’ approaches to map the many drivers of antibiotics use and antibiotic resistance across the Vietnamese pig value chain.
  
  
• Halting the dual tuberculosis and diabetes epidemic
  The aim of this research project is to develop a model that will strengthen health systems by shifting traditional vertical programmes to an adaptive diseases control approach through integrating communicable and non-communicable diseases using the tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus (DM) dual epidemic respectively as a case study in Tanzania
  
  
• Family matters: A new approach to identify individuals at risk of type 2 diabetes
  This project aims to investigate the degree of household clustering of fixed (age, sex, ethnicity, chronic disease status) and modifiable risk factors (e.g. blood glycaemia, anthropometry, blood pressure, health service utility) related to T2D in different geographical settings at various stages of epidemiological transition, and in different health systems and welfare policies.
  
  
• Foetal Exposure and Epidemiological Transition (FOETALforNCD)
  This project investigates if anaemia, in particularly Hb <8 g/dL, in early pregnancy or even before, may programme the foetus towards increased risk for NCDs when growing up in a society in fast transition.
  
  
• The Kenya Diabetes Study
  Type 2 diabetes is a rapidly growing problem in developing countries. This increase is due to changes in the life-style (e.g. diet and physical activity) in combination with genetic predisposition.
  
  
• The association between maternal malaria exposure  and cardiometabolic risk in the offspring: a 20 year follow-up study
  The objective is to determine the possible additive, detrimental effect of maternal malaria in the placenta on the offspring in regard to epigenetic changes in skeletal muscle and subsequent risk of cardiometabolic disease in adulthood.
  
  
• Physical activity and cardio-metabolic health in Mexican Tarahumara (Rarámuri) people
  Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is highly prevalent in Mexico, especially in acculturated populations of indigenous people. Based on studies in US Pima, indigenous people of North America seem to be highly susceptible to T2D.