Background: Mpox virus (MPXV) clade Ib, first detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in September 2023, spread internationally within months, prompting an emergency declaration from th...

Vulnerability to climate hazards and infectious diseases is not gender-neutral, meaning that men, women, and other gender identities experience different risks. Leptospirosis is a zoonotic climate-sen...

The Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health welcomes a new Steering Committee | LSHTM

Climate change alters risks associated with climate-sensitive infectious diseases (CSIDs) with pandemic potential. This poses additional threats to already vulnerable populations, further amplified by...

School-age children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) face health and educational challenges due to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools (WinS). Evidence for the ...

Safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services are basic human needs and critical for health, but billions of people lack access to safely managed services. Everybody poo(p)s, but the health and

A total of 1.5 billion people live without basic sanitation. A 5-attribute index of sanitation-related quality of life (SanQoL-5) has been applied in 9 countries. SanQoL-5 attributes and their levels ...

This project aims to articulate a research agenda on the effects of climate change on hygiene practices and hygiene-related health and wellbeing outcomes. It seeks to generate a consensus-based list o...

This project aims to articulate a research agenda on the effects of climate change on hygiene practices and hygiene-related health and wellbeing outcomes. It seeks to generate a consensus-based list o...

Bridging the Menstrual Health Gap: Developing and Validating Tools to Assess Menstrual Health in Individuals...

The focus for the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s work on water, sanitation, hygiene and health.