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The Department of Global Health and Infection at Brighton & Sussex Medical School (BSMS), in collaboration with the Faculty of Geographical and Environmental Science is managing a grant from the UK National Institute for Health Research, to conduct research on severe stigmatizing skin diseases from social science perspective (2019-2023).

This project entitled: Social Sciences for Severe Stigmatizing Skin Diseases (The 5-S Foundation) is working to end neglect of three conditions: mycetoma, scabies and podoconiosis through bringing the social sciences to bear on these conditions in three partner countries: Rwanda, Sudan and Ethiopia. Social science research around NTD’s is essential if key biomedical advances are to be successfully translated into elimination and control programmes, and our research will transform the health and wellbeing of people affected by these conditions by identifying interventions informed by social science perspectives at the level of the patient, the community and national and international policy.