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NHMRC awards $3 million grant for research into neglected tropical diseases
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field--name-field-body-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Kirby Institute has been awarded a Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) grant of $3 million through the <a href="https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/" target="_blank">National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)</a> to help control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.</p><p>The CRE scheme provides funding to researchers to undertake collaborative research to improve health outcomes, develop knowledge and potentially impact health policy and/or practice. Through the scheme, a total investment of $60 million has been awarded to 20 new centres to develop research capacity in basic science, clinical medicine and science, health services and public health. </p><p>Scientia Professor John Kaldor, who heads up the <a href="https://www.kirby.unsw.edu.au/research/programs/ghp" target="_blank">Global Health Program</a> at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, has led a team awarded $3 million over five years, comprising investigators from health research and service organisations in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The grant will fund a new CRE called ENGAGE: Ending the Neglect through Greater Access and Greater Effectiveness, which will work towards accelerating progress towards the public health control and elimination of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).</p><div data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="74cffdb5-1f81-4833-824f-523e7b33ecf5" data-embed-button="image" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.huge" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"><article class="standard media media--type-image media--view-mode-huge has-caption"> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img src="/sites/default/files/styles/huge/public/images/John-Kaldor-resized.jpg?itok=XPy1Khh6" width="880" height="660" alt="Scientia Professor John Kaldor " loading="lazy" class="img-fluid image-style-huge"> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-caption field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Scientia Professor John Kaldor heads up the Global Health Program at the Kirby Institute.</div> </article> </div> <p>NTDs are a diverse group of 20 health conditions, strongly linked to environmental factors, that largely affect people with poor access to health services. In our region, important NTDs include intestinal worm-related diseases, the skin diseases scabies and yaw, the blinding disease trachoma and the mosquito-borne diseases lymphatic filariasis and dengue. According to the World Health Organization, <a href="https://www.who.int/health-topics/neglected-tropical-diseases#tab=tab_1" target="_blank">NTDs currently affect more than 1 billion people worldwide</a>.</p><p>“Neglected tropical diseases have devastating health, social and economic consequences, particularly for populations in remote and low-income settings,” says Scientia Prof. Kaldor. “By the end of our five years of funding, we anticipate that ENGAGE will have provided partner countries and their communities, and our region more broadly, with crucial new knowledge on how to track, prevent and control endemic NTDs. Our collaboration of investigators from health organisations in Australia and countries of the Pacific and South East Asia bring the wealth of experience needed to confront these preventable causes of human suffering.”</p><p>Other Kirby Institute investigators on the project include Professor Susana Vaz Nery, Professor Virginia Wiseman and Dr Lucia Romani. They are joined by colleagues from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Telethon Kids Institute, Burnet Institute, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, University of Queensland, James Cook University, the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Monash University, University of the Philippines, Papua New Guinea Institute for Medical Research, Menzies School of Health Research at Charles Darwin University, University of Melbourne, Curtin University, Ministry of Health (Fiji) and Ministry of Health (Solomon Islands).</p><p>“This funding is a fantastic achievement and will make a significant difference in working towards WHO’s 2030 targets of eliminating neglected tropical diseases,” says Scientia Professor Anthony Kelleher, director of the Kirby Institute. “The grant will help to build a NTD research workforce that’s equipped to find better solutions for the control of these major contributors to the burden of infectious disease in our region.”</p></div> 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