Health, wellbeing and educational partnerships
Our ongoing partnerships in local communities and global populations explore the factors that affect people's health, wellbeing and educational potential.
Current partnerships projects
The аÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±-Brawijaya Centre for Global Health, Population, and Policy (PB Centre) is a partnership between us and the in Malang, Indonesia.
Through this partnership we conduct evidence-based and policy-led research on basic and applied bio-social determinants of health. The goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of people worldwide through research, teaching and training.
Research expertise within this partnership includes:
- Gender relations
- Family-planning
- Food security
- HIV transmission
- Domestic violence
The centre recently completed a – supported by a £510,577 funding award from the Medical Research Council – to explore whether financial incentives and access to free services in private health facilities can reduce the rates of premature deaths and poor health in pregnant women and their newborn in India and Bangladesh. The results of this project will help determine how barriers to health care services can be reduced, and support improved health goals for women and children in both countries.
This partnerships benefits:
- Future scientists by providing the methods to do more complex data analysis challenges
- Practicing researchers by supporting postgraduate and continuing professional programmes that will develop their knowledge of population health