The Academy at the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections at University College London

Vision

The HPRU Academy vision is to expand our world-leading wide-ranging research in STIs/BBVs to be recognised as an international centre-of-excellence in the field.

We aim to develop research capacity by:

1. Building on our HPRU Academy, recruiting our next cohort of students, and working with UCL’s masters/doctoral training programmes to increase the number of students working on HPRU-affiliated projects
2. Expanding the HPRU through development of our Academy PhD programme
3. Providing access to a range of short courses through the HPRU Academy, including courses for multiple stakeholder groups (including patient/public representatives, local HPTs and field epidemiology teams) thus building capacity in multi-disciplinary research across the HPRU and nationally

Results to date:

We have recently advertised for our next cohort of HPRU Academy PhD students, who will be taking on a diverse range of projects working across our Research Themes, and we hope that they will start the studentships between Spring and Autumn 2021.  

Professor Greta Rait

Academy Lead, National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections at University College London

Dr Sema Mandal
PHE Co-Lead

Click here to meet our current PhD students

First cohort of PhD students at the HPRU.