Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health  

An integrated approach to infectious disease biology is needed to solve the problems of neglected and emerging diseases. We must understand the biology of the pathogen and its interaction with the host, immune mechanisms that contribute to disease outcome and the ecological and epidemiological factors that determine the spread of disease. 

Since its establishment in 2016, the Hosts, Pathogens and Global Health programme has provided interdisciplinary expertise spanning infectious disease biology from molecular to evolutionary and epidemiological scales. Our key goals are to train infection biologists to be skilled in interdisciplinary approaches to disease control and well versed in the opportunities of quantitative, theoretical and experimental approaches.

We will use the community and mentorship ethos at the university along with our international partners to build a life-long supportive network of next generation researchers working across disciplines to combat infectious disease.