Alumni
This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.
This page is no longer being updated and is a historical record of Manjinder Sandhu’s work at the Sanger Institute.
My research is focused on low and middle income countries and particularly those in Africa and South-East Asia. I led the development and delivery of the African Genome Variation Project – a major resource that provides insights into population genome diversity in Africa and am engaged in a programme of work to study ancient DNA and indigenous populations groups.
I established and co-direct the African Partnership for Chronic Disease Research (APCDR), an international network of scientists committed to strengthening research capacity and undertaking chronic disease research in Africa. Alongside this I am the co-director of the Ugandan Medical Informatics Centre (UMIC) an integrated data centre providing computational resources to African institutions across the region.
I am the Editor-in-Chief of ‘Global Health, Epidemiology and Genomics (GHEG)’ (http://gheg-journal.co.uk/) an on-line, open-access journal, published by Cambridge University Press, which is committed to publishing cross-disciplinary research that integrates population science, genomics and related technological advances to increase our understanding of human health and disease worldwide.
My timeline
Reader in Global Health and Population Sciences, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge
Group Leader, Department of Human Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
University Lecturer, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge
Course Director, MPhil in Epidemiology, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge
PhD, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
MRC Fellow, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge
MSc, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
BSc in Physiology, King’s College, University of London