University receives national funding for Covid-19 research project in Pakistan Health academics from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) have received nearly £260,000 to research how remote communities in Pakistan can engage with Covid-19 public health messages. The 18-month project, which will focus on an impoverished brick-kiln community near Peshawar, will see the academics work with the local community to not only decide how to communicate health messages, but decide on what key resources are required to meet public health recommendations to limit the spread of the virus. UCLan’s Dr Victoria Moran, Dr Heather Ohly and Professor Mick McKeown will work together with local non-governmental organisation the Abaseen Foundation and colleagues at Khyber Medical University (KMU).