Mark Smith & Ray Kent

Royal Veterinary College

University of London

Image © Poppy Berdoy-Webster

Core themes

We are currently exploring four themes:

• Developing low-cost portable diagnostic tools.

• Development and testing of effective vaccines

for endemic and emerging diseases of humans

and animals.

• Modelling studies to improve understanding of

disease transmission and spread within animal

populations, and from animals to humans

(zoonotic disease).

• Studies to examine the social, economic and

political acceptability of public health responses

to disease emergence events.

Aims & Objectives

The Bloomsbury SET is a £5-million Knowledge

Exchange programme funded by Research England’s

Connecting Capability Fund, with support from

industry, UK and overseas government agencies,

NGOs and charities. It connects place, people,

businesses, ideas and infrastructures in pursuit of

innovative scientific and technical solutions that will

help to safeguard long-term human health.

The programme aims to ‘breed’ the

most promising research ideas and

‘bud’ them by attracting investment

to help fund their next steps .

A ‘One Health’ Knowledge Exchange programme to combat the threat from infectious disease

and antimicrobial resistance

Breeding and Budding the Best

Knowledge Exchange

The programme uses the convening power of four

University of London colleges to test whether

proposed public health interventions are acceptable

socially, economically and politically - the factors which

determine their success in the real world.

Website:

www.bloomsburyset.org.uk

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• £4-million investment in translational research

projects and Innovation Fellowships.

• Small Grants for mathematical modelling studies

using AI / Machine Learning techniques.

• New diagnostic tools and vaccines for use in the

UK and low- to medium-income countries.

• International benchmarking of the consortium’s

Knowledge Exchange activities.

Partnership & future

The Bloomsbury SET is led by The Royal Veterinary

College in partnership with the London School of

Economics & Political Science, the London School of

Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and SOAS University of

London, together with the London International

Development Centre. It offers the prospect of a

step-change in the Knowledge Exchange offer from

these colleges, through their combined strength and

expertise.