Dr Esin Nkereuwem, a Research Clinician in the Vaccines & Immunity Theme at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia, has been awarded a Global Health Clinical Research Training Fellowship to carry out an assessment of post-tuberculosis lung function in Gambian children. Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading infectious disease globally and continues to occur in […]

The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is aware of information circulating on social media in The Gambia, attributing the recommendation for the consumption of garlic as a preventive measure against the Corona Virus to ‘a staff of MRC’. We wish to inform the general public […]

The global outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (renamed COVID-19) has brought to attention the preparedness of African countries and health systems to be able to address the COVID-19 outbreak. On 31 Jan 2020 the WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) and emphasised during this […]

Achieving the ambitious aim of “leaving no woman, no child, no adolescent behind” in the push towards universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires adequate resources, that are distributed fairly. The international community must focus on countries and populations within them with the highest needs. Both external donors and country governments must […]

A new mapping tool created by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine tracks the history of the novel coronavirus and other recent outbreaks, helping place daily headlines in context. We have been trying to keep up with the novel coronavirus ever since it started grabbing global headlines last month. At the time of […]

West Africa is a climate change hotspot. More than 75% of the population is affected as often as once every two years by natural phenomena such as floods or droughts that are increasing in their frequency and severity directly because of climate change. However, insufficient research and a lack of urgency in the response is […]

Professor Tumani Corrah, Emeritus Director of the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has been appointed honorary Knight Commander of the the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his services to medical research in sub-Saharan Africa. The award was presented by Her […]

Fatou Joof, PhD student under the Nutrition Theme at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is one of twenty (20) winners of the 2019 L’Oréal- UNESCO Young Talent Award for Sub-Saharan Africa for Women in Science. Ms. Joof was recognised for her research on ‘Developing […]

A new study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that pregnant women who are exposed to hot weather are more likely to give birth earlier, which could affect infant health. In an analysis of daily weather compared to daily birth rates in the United States, researchers have found an association between extreme heat and increased […]

A new publication in Scientific Reports, led by Dr Grant Mackenzie and Professor Beate Kampmann from the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, provides the necessary background information to determine if the introduction of vaccines against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) could be beneficial in The Gambia. […]

The Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) Clinical Scientific Group have published new research in BMC Medical Research Methodology, Dealing with indeterminate outcomes in antimalarial drug efficacy trials: A comparison between complete case analysis, multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting. It is the continuation of two earlier studies which explored approaches for comparing different statistical methods […]

The Sustainable Cardiovascular Health Equity Development Alliance (SCHEDA) recently donated medical equipment to the Clinical Services Department of the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. SCHEDA is a global non-profit organisation, co-founded by two Gambian – Americans Dr. Ngoneh Jallow and Dr. Sheikh Omar Jobe, and […]