Programme 1: Infectious Diseases

Leads: Shams Arifeen, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and Harish Nair, University of Edinburgh

About Programme 1: Infectious Diseases

This programme of work focuses on infectious respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia.

RESPIRE projects in this area focus on four key areas

The adaptation and tailoring of existing interventions, which can be incorporated into existing health care systems in each country. This also involves assessing the ability of such interventions to be delivered at a larger scale.
To enrich and/or develop new cohorts of lower respiratory tract infections that will provide platforms for future clinical trials.
Developing new interventions through small scale projects, to serve as proofs of concept for larger scale trials.
Conducting multi-country trials to inform the development of new patient management guidelines, feeding into the evidence base for the World Health Organization (WHO).

This programme is co-led by:

Dr Shams Arifeen is Senior Director at Maternal and Child Health Division (MCHD), International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b)
Professor Harish Nair is Chair of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health, and Co-Director of the Usher Institute’s Centre for Global Health at the University of Edinburgh

Ai Keow Lim is RESPIRE’s Programmes and Trial Manager.