Health Sciences
Population-level research on disease burden, prevention and access to care — the evidence that shows where clinical tools should be deployed.
The question laboratory work cannot answer
A validated diagnostic test tells you what is true of a sample. It does not tell you how many people in a district have the condition, whether they can reach a laboratory, whether they would seek testing if they could, or what happens to those who test positive.
Health sciences research answers those questions. It is what turns a working method into a deployable programme, and it is often what reveals that the real constraint on health outcomes was never the technology. Public health research is named explicitly in our founding objectives for that reason.
What we study
Disease burden
Access to care
Prevention
Health systems
Screening programmes
Health equity
Research designed to be acted on
Population health research is only worth doing if someone can use the result. We design studies with the eventual decision in mind: what would a district health officer, a clinic manager or a policy team actually need to know in order to change what they do?
That shapes practical choices. Sampling frames are built to support the comparisons that matter rather than the ones easiest to collect. Outcomes are chosen to be meaningful to services, not only statistically tractable. And findings are published as policy briefs alongside papers, because the people who can act on them rarely read journals.
Study design
Field data collection
Analysis
Translation
Health sciences studies will be listed here
Population and public health studies will be described here as they receive approval and begin. Each entry will state the research question, the population studied, and the collaborating institutions.
Work with us on population health
We are interested in collaborations with public health bodies, district health services and academic partners.