Biomedical

The Natural History Museum has the most comprehensive collection of such organisms in the world, and staff expertise that confers a unique ability to identify, survey and assess the wide range of these animals and plants of medical and veterinary importance.

The Natural History Museum operates World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centres for Schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis and leishmaniasis, and a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) collaborating centre for myiasis.

We can offer assistance in:

• human health impact assessments for proposed development projects, especially in the tropics

• livestock health impact assessments for proposed agricultural development projects

• health impact assessments can be combined with Natural History Museum expertise for environmental impact assessments

• incrimination of vectors of human and livestock diseases, and development of control policy

• development of methods for routine surveillance of organisms causing human and livestock parasitic disease

• rapid identification of poisonous or toxic organisms

• forensic entomology

• identification of local expertise and institutions

• general and tailored training in identification of arthropods of medical and veterinary importance
  

Find out more about our recent Biomedical consulting contracts.