Explore our global impact

From the Arctic to Zambia, explore how research carried out by Cambridge and its partners is having a positive impact around the world.

Or take a closer look at some of the ways that our research benefits the UK – locally, regionally and nationally.

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Surviving birth in Uganda

Helping more women survive complications of birth at one of the world’s busiest maternity hospitals.
People wearing face masks

Variant hunters for the world

Tracking the worldwide spread of coronavirus variants at the UK’s SARS-CoV-2 genomics capability.
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Droning on ice

Highlighting the threat of global sea level rise using custom-built drones flown over the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Woman in Indian slums

Fixing design, saving energy

Improving the design of millions of new houses being built for former slum-dwellers in India.
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3,000 meerkats and counting

Uncovering the secrets of meerkat society in an unprecedented thirty-year-study.

The city rises

Revealing astonishing archaeological details of an entire Roman city in Italy – without any digging.
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Go Viral!

Combatting coronavirus conspiracy theories and misinformation, using a new online game, in a bid to save lives.
Professor Sir David Klenerman and Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian

Reading the genome

Discovering a revolutionary DNA sequencing technology that has phenomenal benefits to society.