MALAYSIA 


LSHTM staff based in Malaysia 


LSHTM staff with research projects in Malaysia

Chris Drakeley, Reader in Infection & Immunity, Director of LSHTM Malaria Centre

Research Project in Malaysia 

On going projects

 Defining the biomedical, environmental and social risk factors for human infection with Plasmodium knowlesi; opportunities for prevention and control of an emerging zoonotic infection

This Research Consortium grant has been awarded under the call ‘Environmental and Social Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases (ESEI)’, a joint initiative between the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the Living with Environmental Change programme.

The study sites are on Palawan Island, the Philippines; and in Sabah, Malaysia (Kudat; Pulau Banggi; Kota Marudu)

Please see a brief summary here.

Project Leader: Chris Drakeley