Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute
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Founded Since 2018
Company Description
Who We Are
RGHI is led by Simon Sinclair, PhD MB BChir, Executive Director and Dave Wheeler, Operations and Strategy Director. The research agenda is led by an Expert Panel consisting of world renowned, leading independent experts. RGHI also has a network of global partners and supporters.
The Role We Play
RGHI seeks to stimulate rigorous science and research, understand and enable behaviour changes, leverage health initiatives where hygiene science and behaviour can make a significant difference to people’s wellbeing and effect policy change at a local, national and international level.
Established in 2020 RGHI is focussed on plugging significant gaps in the health research space and improving access to information that will bridge epidemiology, public health, and behaviour change. As part of this aim RGHI is organising the Global Hygiene Summit 2023 that will inform the global health agenda and stimulate the level discussion necessary to drive the adoption of better and more sustainable hygienic practises globally.
“Hygiene is the conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent the spread of diseases. Good hygiene saves lives, improves health and economies, and dramatically reduces health inequalities and health costs.”
Expand
Expand the body of research and advancing the understanding of the links between hygiene and health
Enhance
Enhance the understanding of best-in-class hygiene science to encourage new hygiene standards
Effect
Promote behaviour change to improve global hygiene and health
Elevate
Inform the global public health agenda
What We Do
Established towards the end of 2020 with the mission of enabling and accelerating a portfolio of hygiene science to improve public health through better outcomes and behaviours, RGHI has the agility and higher risk threshold necessary to support experimental interventions and to bring science to policy.
Our Work
Hygiene, the actions people take – or the behaviours they engage in – to counter the biological threats they experience is foundational to individual and public health.
The need for specific hygienic behaviours differs between cultures and geographies, as the threats to human health and their interpretation differ. This has led to some stark global inequalities in hygiene and health.
The economic consequences are substantial. RGHI intends to address the hygiene inequalities that result in the death or disability of millions of people each year by concentrating on two core areas of activity.
Work undertaken in these areas has the overarching objective of improving health outcomes for individuals and communities throughout the globe.
Pillars of Activity
RGHI has identified two key areas of activity.
1. Science
2. Communication
Work undertaken in these areas has the overarching objective of improving health outcomes for individuals and communities throughout the globe.
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