COVID19 Strategic Priorities: SUPPLEMENTARY FUNDING OFFER FOR THE MRC UNIT, THE GAMBIA AT LSHTM (MRC Unit, The Gambia)

  • Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
  • Total publications:6 publications

Grant number: MC_PC_20054

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19
  • Start & end year

    2021
    2021
  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $813,143.27
  • Funder

    UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
  • Principal Investigator

    Professor Umberto D'Alessandro
  • Research Location

    United Kingdom
  • Lead Research Institution

    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A
  • Research Category

    Clinical characterisation and management

  • Research Subcategory

    Supportive care, processes of care and management

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

The MRC is pleased to confirm additional funding from the Global Challenges Research fund for the MRC Unit. This award provides resource to support; ·         your unit in the efforts of managing the impact and activities during the COVID crisis ·         the procurement of and installation of oxygen concentrators

Publicationslinked via Europe PMC

Clinical research on COVID-19: perceptions and barriers to participation in The Gambia.

SARS-CoV-2 sequencing collaboration in west Africa shows best practices.

Intense and Mild First Epidemic Wave of Coronavirus Disease, The Gambia.

Origin of imported SARS-CoV-2 strains in The Gambia identified from whole genome sequences.

Public health-relevant consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on malaria in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review.

COVID-19 reinfections in The Gambia by phylogenetically distinct SARS-CoV-2 variants-first two confirmed events in west Africa.