Welcome to the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) Knowledge Hub, for everyone interested in responding to outbreaks of infectious diseases. It provides an online meeting place where researchers and policy makers can share resources, evidence and discuss best practice to support response to outbreaks in low and middle income countries.
18 May 2026
As part of the wider UK Government response to the hantavirus outbreak, the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (a partnership between LSHTM and the UK Health Security Agency), has deployed a rapid response mobile laboratory (RRML) and three UKHSA staff members to the British Overseas Territory of St Helena.
5 May 2026
The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, academics from the University of São Paulo’s School of Nursing and key Brazilian healthcare stakeholders have co-created, for the first time, gender-based IPC recommendations during disease outbreaks for the Brazilian healthcare context during a research workshop on 10 March 2026.
16 March 2026
The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) is proud to be contributing technical expertise to the GOARN Regional Outbreak Response Scenario Programme, launched this week in Trinidad and Tobago in partnership with the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN).
UK-PHRST and Africa CDC's joint study to evaluate how international public health deployments strengthen national outbreak preparedness and response capabilities across African Union member states has shared 15 co-developed recommendations to strengthen the impact of future deployments, create sustainable change and outline the conditions that support the most effective outcomes.
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New ethnographic toolkit to facilitate community workshops and focus group discussions which can be adapted for use in any disease outbreak. The toolkit has been developed as part of a study to track online and offline rumours and concerns about COVID-19 to better understand their mechanisms and influence, and to identify solutions to address community concerns during health emergencies.
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The UK-PHRST and Partners' Learning Review 2024 Report highlights case studies where our work has achieved real impact that arose during a three-day learning session in Nairobi in June 2024.
The report also provides 20 recommendations for improved future ways of working and includes UK-PHRST senior leadership responses showing the actions that the UK-PHRST is committed to taking as a result.
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