Communicable Diseases: Vulnerability, Risk and Poverty

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HD206: Communicable Diseases: Vulnerability, Risk and Poverty (COMDIS)

Co-directors: John Walley and James Newell, University of Leeds

The aim of the communicable disease ("COMDIS") research programme consortium is to ensure access to effective interventions on a far greater scale and reaching vulnerable people. COMDIS will research and develop feasible and affordable interventions for TB, malaria and HIV care. It will investigate patient and provider issues and evaluate approaches to improve utilisation, delivery and quality of interventions together with health systems issues. A key strategy will be to anchor research within operational programmes, so that knowledge will be rapidly incorporated into policy and practice at scale in partner countries and elsewhere.

The partners are:

• Malaria Consortium, UK and Africa.
• Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• Association for Social Development (ASD), Islamabad, Pakistan.
• Beijing National and Guangxi Provincial Centres for Diseases Control.
• Department of Clinical Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
• School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.
• The Health Research and Social Development Forum, Nepal.
• The Good Shepherd Hospital/ Lubombo regional health, Swaziland.
• The national tuberculosis and malaria control programmes in the partner countries (in Uganda also AIDS and IMCI programmes) are key collaborators with COMDIS.

See also the Project record for Communicable diseases: vulnerability, risk and poverty (COMDIS) on R4D.