Asia is the most populated region of the world, and is the setting for most of the world’s preventable deaths. Although the economic prosperity of some Asian countries is rapidly increasing, there are numerous countries that are designated as low-income and have no immediate prospect of rapid economic growth. A third of the region’s population live on less than two dollars a day, which is estimated to represent two-thirds of the developing world’s poor. The region is a hot spot for both the emergence of new infectious diseases and antimicrobial drug resistance. The spectrum of research being conducted by University of Cambridge investigators mirrors these challenges, and includes research on food security, major health threats such as influenza and tuberculosis, and bacterial drug resistance.
People specializing in this area
Principal Investigators
- India
- SMRU, Mae Sot, Thailand
- Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia
- Thailand
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Thailand
- Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Bangalore
- Wellcome Trust Tropical Unit Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
- Singapore
- Bangladesh, http://www.icddrb.org/
- Monash University, Malaysia
- Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Postdoctoral Researchers
- Nepal
- India
- Thailand: University of Bangkok
- KAUST, Saudi Arabia
- National Institute for Research on Tuberculosis, Chennai, India
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand (http://www.md.kku.ac.th/en/index.php)
- Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China
- Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, P. R. China
- Huazhong Agriculture University, Wuhan, P. R. China