The Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections HPRU will continue to deliver a world-leading research programme that is designed to help UKHSA in its mission of protecting the country against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and blood-borne viruses (BBVs). To do this, we will work closely with UKHSA colleagues, with community partners and with those who commission or deliver services to make sure that our research questions are the most important and relevant ones. We will continue to use the latest new methods and will bring together researchers with different skillsets to work on studies that cover a range of STIs and BBVs.

Because of our wide skillset, we are able to approach research questions from different angles. This gives us a deeper understanding of the issues involved and helps us to find effective solutions. We work with health promotion experts who support us to turn our findings into practical and impactful solutions. Importantly, we include those people who will likely benefit from our research at every stage of the process, right from the start when we identify questions, to when we discuss when and how we share our findings, and finally to how best to help people adopt recommendations. 

In collaboration with University College London, University of Bristol, University of Manchester, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Lincoln and the University of Liverpool.