Global Development Hub
The Global Development Hub supports Imperial's contribution to the UN Sustainable Agenda, and our work with some of the most vulnerable and marginalised in societies where multiple global challenges are acutely concentrated.
SDG Case Studies
Plant-based vaccine innovation in Africa
Taking plant-based vaccines in to full-scale production in Africa.
Prosthetics solutions for children in conflict zones
New research into response to amputation, and the development of low-cost, life saving solutions.
Transmission Zero: halting the spread of malaria
Researchers have developed a two-part technology to curb the spread of malaria.
Cutting-edge digital diagnostics in Africa
Lacewing is a novel Imperial-developed technology that provides portable, real-time health data.
The mental health impacts of climate change
Identifying research priorities and recommendations to understand and act on the mental health impacts of the climate crisis.
Making non-sewered sanitation work
Innovating non-sewered sanitation technologies and finding better ways treat waste and partially recover value from it.
Restoring Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Imperial-partnered studies explore engagement with different types of restoration across the Atlantic Forest.
Evaluating policies to influence healthy food choices
A programme examining the prospective impacts of fiscal measures to improve the nutritional quality of diets in south Asia.
Design and engineering meets global development
Innovative and culturally relevant technology solutions that empower people and the planet for better outcomes.
Mapping global resources fragility
Creating a tool to accurately map natural resources fragility to address the loss of human capacity.
Sustainable intervention for legacy mines
The Bio+Mine project worked with a local community in the Philippines to implement transformative sustainable strategies.
Water systems integration research
Developing methods and tools to look at performance of integrated water systems to implemented globally.
Shifting the climate misconception
World Weather Attribution has made scientific advances to determine how climate change intensifies weather disasters.