Research goals in enteric and respiratory infections

• Determining the mechanisms governing the ecology of enteric and respiratory pathogens in order to provide leads for new preventative and therapeutic interventions.
• Elucidating immune responses and protective mechanisms against key enteric and respiratory pathogens.
• Identifying new vaccine antigens and adjuvants to provide leads for development of improved vaccines.
• Characterising disease burden and human susceptibility for improved targeting of interventions.
• Developing and evaluating improved diagnostics to facilitate disease detection and treatment.
• Developing, evaluating and scaling up the use of vaccines of public health importance.
• Developing and evaluating non-vaccine preventative and therapeutic interventions.
• Exploring the role of the microbiome in response to natural infection and vaccination.
• Assessing environmental exposures and testing novel interventions.