London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine — Research on Chronic Viral Infections

[Human Health and Wellbeing] Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of £1,961,252 (approximately $2,670,441 at the time of conversion) over five years to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to support a retrospective epidemiology study led by Professor Charlotte Warren-Gash. This study will use data from UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database with data from 500,000 adults in the UK, to study the long-term health consequences of chronic viral infections. This falls within our focus area of scientific research. and specifically within our interest in advancing human health and wellbeing.