WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Systems and Chronic Conditions
Lead academics: Professor Pablo Perel, Adrianna Murphy
The Centre for Global Chronic Conditions (CGCC) was established at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 2017 through a merger of two former LSHTM Centres: ECOHOST (The Centre for Health and Social Change) and the Centre for Global Non Communicable Diseases. ECOHOST became a WHO Collaborating Centre over a decade ago, and CGCC was formally accepted as a WHO Europe Collaborating Centre in 2019.
The Centre comprises a group of researchers from multiple disciplines with skills in epidemiology, economics, social and political sciences, and aims to improve understanding of and responses to chronic conditions to improve the health and health equity of people worldwide.
The work of the Centre seeks to address chronic conditions in an integrated way and to better understand the interaction of chronic NCDs with other chronic conditions such as mental health, as well as with chronic communicable diseases such as TB and HIV/AIDS. The Centre’s researchers work in low, middle and high-income country settings, in transitional settings, and with vulnerable populations, including migrant populations and those in humanitarian contexts.
As a Collaborating Centre, CGCC has contributed to health systems analysis and intelligence in Europe in a number of ways, including: providing expert advice to WHO on issues relating to COVID-19 and chronic conditions, supporting the Monti Commission to produce a report on health and sustainable development, providing policy briefs, contributing articles and publications, and leading research in areas such as strengthening health systems resilience during COVID-19.
WHO Collaborating Centre for Sexually Transmitted Infections
Lead academics: Dr Emma Harding-Esch, Dr Emma Slaymaker
This Centre is closely aligned with LSHTM’s Sexually Transmitted Infections Research Interest Group (STIRIG), which is made up of more than 50 cross-Faculty, interdisciplinary LSHTM researchers and students conducting research on sexual health and STIs. The Centre works with the , the ), and a network of international collaborators on activities to improve the prevention, control and management of STIs worldwide. The key objectives of the Centre are to:
- Support the development, implementation and evaluation of STI diagnostic strategies, including point-of-care tests (POCTs); training; health systems research; laboratory capacity building; and advise on research/validation, test performance, process and impact evaluations.
- Assist WHO in activities that aim to improve STI prevention and control and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in key and vulnerable populations for STIs including HIV (support normative work [e.g. guidelines]; generate evidence to inform policy and programmes including STI prevalence and surveillance, sexual behaviour, SRH service access and use; and training).
- Provide support to WHO in activities related to elimination of STIs and their sequelae, including cervical cancer, and mother-to-child-transmission of STIs including HIV, hepatitis and syphilis.
WHO Collaborating Centre on Climate Change, Health and Sustainable Development
Lead academics: Dr Pauline Scheelbeek, Professor Sir Andy Haines
The Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health is comprised of word-leading planetary health researchers based at LSHTM and the LSHTM MRC Unit in The Gambia, West Africa. The Centre generates rigorous, evidence-based solutions for UK and international policy by understanding the complex interactions between climate change and human health, working towards a resilient and sustainable planet that fosters good health for all.
In March 2021 the Centre became a WHO Collaborating Centre on Climate Change, Health and Sustainable Development. The WHO Collaborating Centre provides expertise and evidence on climate change and health issues globally to strengthen country resources and support national health development.
WHO Collaborating Centre on Research on Gender-based Violence
Lead academics: Manuela Colombini, Nambusi Kyegombe, Meghna Ranganathan
The Gender Violence & Health Centre (GVHC) is an inter-disciplinary research group at LSHTM made up of more than 25 researchers with expertise on violence against women, violence against children, violence against men, violence among same-sex people, migration, labour exploitation and human trafficking. GVHC has been a WHO Collaborating Centre since 2019.
We work closely with local, national and international partners and stakeholders around the world to identify pressing research needs, conduct action-oriented research and generate scientific knowledge and evidence on gender-based violence and health aimed to improve the lives of women, children, adolescents and men.
- WHO collaboration currently in the process of being renewed