Global Development Lab

The Global Development Lab supports Imperial's work with some of the most vulnerable and marginalised, in societies where multiple global challenges are acutely concentrated.

Global Development Lab’s global partnerships and projects

Global Development Lab’s global partnerships and projects

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.

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Chronic disease deaths decline globally, but progress is slowing

10 September 2025
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Imperial co-hosts UN roundtable on capital markets and sustainability at FFD4

25 July 2025

17 July 2025

Mayor of London visits Imperial Global Ghana to meet inspiring innovators

03 June 2025

Imperial seeks to expand strategic ties in Southeast Asia

11 April 2025

International Fellows complete impactful research placements at Imperial

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