The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in South Asia is a research collaboration which brings together international expertise in the fields of Public Health, Health Promotion, Health Policy, Nutrition, Community Interventions, Epigenomics and Genomics. The Unit benefits from partnership with key academic, clinical, and governmental organisations in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UK.
Our unit has been awarded funding under the programmes second call. The impact and outputs of the first NIHR Global Health Research Unit can be found here.
million people
die from cardiovascular diseases worldwide
million people
live with diabetes worldwide
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GHRU Trainee won the NIHR GHR SPARC Award
GHRU Trainee Thilini Chandrasiri, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, won the competitive GHR SPARC Award
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