In 2007, the UWHI carried out a pilot study on the use of brain-cooling to prevent or reduce brain damage in infants who’d suffered from lack of oxygen to the brain.

The pilot study results were published in The Lancet medical journal in 2008 and helped confirm the feasibility of doing a full, randomised control trial on the use of this technique in settings that have low resources. Funding for this larger trial has been granted and recruitment in Uganda has begun.