Medicine and health research

Find out about our medicine and health research.

Research in our schools
Our research activities are organised around:
- Brighton and Sussex Medical School
- School of Life Sciences.
Research programmes and centres

Research impact

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.

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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 University Hospitals, has created a community-based approach to treating Hepatitis C in people who are homeless or with drug addictions.

Discover the treatment approach

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.

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Podcasts

Podcast: Gail Davey and Melanie Newport talk about their research into podoconiosis

Gail Davey, 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. Professor Melanie Newport 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.