Tackling global health challenges
Dr Maya Semrau works within our Global Health and Infection Department, developing environmentally specific interventions to help people affected by neglected tropical diseases in their local environment.
Medicine and health research
Find out about our medicine and health research.
- Research in our schools
Our research activities are organised around:
- Research programmes and centres
- Sussex Neuroscience
- Centre for Cultures of Reproduction, Technologies and Health
- Sussex Addiction Research and Intervention Centre
- Sussex Drug Discovery Centre
- Dementia Research Group
- Learning, Memory and Plasticity Group
- Pharma Supply Chains and Healthcare Technology
- Genome Damage and Stability Centre
- Centre for Global Health Policy
- Centre for Cognitive Science
- Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
- Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience
- Developmental Genetics Research Group
- Gene Expression Research Group
- Infectious Diseases Modelling Group
- Mathematics Applied to Biology
- Neurodegenerative Disease and Aging Research Centre
Research impact
How community care is helping to eliminate Hepatitis C
Professor Sumita Verma, a consultant hepatologist with Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Brighton and Sussex 5XÉçÇøÊÓƵ Hospitals, has created a community-based approach to treating Hepatitis C in people who are homeless or with drug addictions.
Giving babies a better start
Thanks to research at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, the outlook for premature babies around the world is much brighter.
Podcasts
Podcast: Gail Davey and Melanie Newport talk about their research into podoconiosis
, a Professor of Global Health Epidemiology at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, initiated a research programme into podoconiosis (podo), a form of elephantiasis or swelling of the lower leg in 2005 and helped lead efforts to have the World Health Organisation add podo to the list of neglected tropical diseases in 2011. is a Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health researching the genetic susceptibility to infection and to tropical diseases. Hear how their genetic, public-health and social-science research work has had had a significant impact on tropical societies and economies where podoconiosis is endemic.
Listen to more Impacted podcasts.
News
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Contact us
Research development enquiries:
researchexternal@sussex.ac.uk
Research impact enquiries:
rqi@sussex.ac.uk
Research governance enquiries:
rgoffice@sussex.ac.uk
Doctoral study enquiries:
doctoralschool@sussex.ac.uk
Undergraduate research enquiries:
undergraduate-research@sussex.ac.uk
General press enquiries:
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