Alastair Lucas Endowment Fund
With lives at stake, there’s no time to waste. The Alastair Lucas Prize for Medical Research allows the highest calibre researchers to immediately start life-saving work.
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Behaviours and Health Risks
The focus on risky behaviours associated with drug and alcohol misuse aims at developing community-level education and preventative public health programs.
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Disease Elimination
We have expertise in specific infectious diseases of global health significance – HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis viruses, influenza, and emerging infectious diseases.
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Maternal and Child Health
Working with communities we are improving access to health care services such as family planning, postnatal and newborn care, vaccinations, management of childhood illnesses and nutrition.
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Health Security
Clinical, laboratory and public health researchers are addressing the impact of new and emerging infectious diseases on vulnerable communities and the rise of multidrug-resistant TB in the region.
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Healthy Ageing
Achieving better health for older people in vulnerable communities in the Asia/Pacific region underpins our research focus in the laboratory and public health activities.
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Research and technical breadth
The technical and thematic breadth of our research and public health expertise is helping to address some of the most relevant global health issues.