A global team working together.
Our global and local partnerships are changing lives across the globe.
Global challenges require global expertise in finding the solutions that are needed. We seek out partnerships that will deliver the results, working closely with clinicians, academics, industry and patients across all sectors and regions to help develop effective innovations at pace and scale.
Internal collaborations
Strength in diversity.
By working across different disciplines within our diverse University community, our collective experts are achieving more and driving change.
Mapping the problem
We've helped establish limb loss rehabilitation services in rural Uganda thanks to a collaboration with geography experts.
Understanding health outcomes through air pollution
Researchers are developing models and tools to document and predict how environmental changes impact on human health.
Read the story : Understanding health outcomes through air pollution.
Fishing for clues to how air pollution affects the heart
Using our expertise in animal physiology to show how pollutants can have the same negative impact on human health as they do on marine life
Read the story : Fishing for clues to how air pollution affects the heart
Making a difference
Changing people's lives across the globe.
Collaboration with partners in different sectors is affecting change in more aspects of healthcare, from changing policy direction to driving new national initiatives in education and training.
Our research partnerships have delivered life-changing impact for people across the globe.
Changing clinical practice
Our understanding of the genetic causes of blindness has revolutionised clinical practice and is delivering new treatments to patients globally.
Read the case study : Transforming care for people with inherited blindness.
Upskilling a workforce
A teaching collaboration in China has helped to upskill their workforce and impact on global healthcare systems.
Read the story : Advancing genomic medicine through international collaboration.
Reducing stillbirth risk
Research into risk factors associated with stillbirths has influenced UK and international health policy, helping to educate parents and save lives.
Read the case study : Shaping healthcare guidelines to prevent and reduce stillbirths.
Reciprocal learning
Researchers and communities together.
Successful outcomes require listening to ensure that we can co-create solutions that work in areas where they are needed most.
We work with partners to ensure our research meets the needs of different communities.
Sharing oesophageal cancer lessons globally
A collaboration with a research hospital in Kenya is focused on improving oesophageal cancer survival.
Read the story : Sharing oesophageal cancer lessons globally.
How do we have global impact?
Listen to research associate Dr Binish Khatoon talk about using research to make a global difference.
More about global futures
Research that matters
Find out how we are improving the lives of people with cancer in communities worldwide.
Find out more about how we are conducting research that matters.
The power of partnerships
We show how successful partnerships can transform lives.
Find out more about how we're working across the whole healthcare pathway to uplift care.
Addressing tomorrow's challenges
Find out how our discoveries and partnerships today will help to combat diseases in the future.
Find out more about how our partnerships will help meet healthcare needs in the future.
Global health
Learn about the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health's global health collaborations.
