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LSTM Annual
Report 2014/15

FEATURE ARTICLE:

health
Applied

To improve prevention and treatment of many diseases, new

products and interventions require knowledge of their e ective

implementation and an understanding of their impact through

constant monitoring and evaluation.

LSTM’s emphasis on product development alongside translational

and policy research with special focus on health systems and

capacity strengthening resonates strongly with institutions;

governments and their ministries; funding bodies and partner

organisations across the globe.

Applied Health Research at LSTM includes a strong focus on a role in the renewal of the partnership between LSTM and

taking interventions from regulatory approval through to eld the REACH Trust (Research for Equity and Community Health
implementation.
Trust). REACH Trust conducts international and national

recognised multidisciplinary research that promotes access
This encompasses the activities that help develop practical to health services, particularly for the poorest and most
solutions to health needs and rights. It incorporates the
vulnerable. REACH Trust conducts research that generates
spectrum of research that delivers policy-relevant evidence knowledge on understanding the interface between the
and includes operational, implementation, and health systems national and international socio-economic development and
research.
communicable disease, especially malaria, tuberculosis and
HIV/AIDS.
CAHRD

Led by Professor
The Collaboration was also involved in the successful
application, together with Lancaster University, to the MRC
Bertie Squire,
Doctoral Training Partnership PHD programme, which enables
with Dr Kevin
LSTM to recruit up to 7 PhD students annually. The scheme
Mortimer as
pairs novel multidisciplinary PhD research with the next
recently appointed
deputy director, this Collaboration brings together individuals generation of leaders in health and biomedical provision.

and disciplines, across the full range of applied health research CAHRD also promotes the creation of a health economist
encompassing operational, implementation, and health
group to provide economic evidence for social policy,
systems research.
environment health and public health policy, and clinical
guidance.
Following its launch Consultation in the 2014 CAHRD

Consultation the outcomes of the four identi ed workstreams The next Consultation is scheduled for 2016, hosted by the
(lung health; maternal and newborn health; NTDs; health University of Warwick.
systems) are scheduled to be published in BMC Proceedings at

the end of 2015. This follows a number of key publications in Evidence Synthesis
peer-reviewed literature.
Systematic reviews of reliable research evidence are a

CAHRD has been instrumental in the set-up of the BMGF requirement for evidence informed policy and practice. They
funded NTD Modelling Consortium, which promotes are also required prior to embarking on new research, to build
mathematical modelling Neglected Tropical Diseases as
on the existing research base, and avoid duplication and

it works best through cross cutting collaborations with wasting money and resources.
epidemiologists, policy makers and eld experts. It also played

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