LISS-DTP CASE PhD Studentship: Mystery fevers and health governance in India

This CASE PhD studentship explores climate change-driven infectious disease resurgence through scrub typhus outbreaks in India. Climate change and rising heat have unsettled established infectious disease patterns, creating a moment of public health urgency. Despite the 21st century focus on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), countries face increasingly frequent waves of emerging and re-emerging infectious disease without fully effective countermeasures. The goal of this research is to meaningfully contribute to the effort to build outbreak-resilient communities. Through rigorous research and sustained advocacy, this study will help save lives in Surguja and provide a replicable model for understanding and mitigating the convergent crises of infectious disease and climate change worldwide. The studentship is part of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership and focuses on public health within the Global Health and Social Medicine PhD programme at King's College London.