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Event 28 Feb 2020 LSTM Seminar: Dr Ffion Carlin on 'Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Uzbekistan: The role of Medicins Sans Frontieres in the country’s TB Programme and the challenges of conducting a large, randomised control trial in a LMIC setting (TBPRACTECAL)' Dr Ffion Carlin is a clinical research fellow in infectious diseases, HIV and sexual health currently working in the centre for Clinical Research in...
Event 27 Feb 2020 IPH's Dr Victoria Watson at Wellness Fair International Public Health's Dr Victoria Watson will be chatting to visitors, in our community, at a health and wellness fair about the...
Event 26 Feb 2020 LSTM Seminar: Dr Derek Sloan on 'Mixing up the medicine: Translational therapeutics for tuberculosis' Derek is an Infectious Diseases consultant and senior lecturer with the University of St Andrews with a long-standing interest in the clinical...
Event 19 Feb 2020 LSTM Seminar: Dr Andrew Hope on REF Impact Case Study, 'Tiny Targets – from a research project to large scale vector control implementation' Historically the control of Gambian Human African Trypanosomiasis (g-HAT) relied on case detection and treatment and vector control did not play a...
Event 12 Feb 2020 LSTM Seminar: Maya Goodfellow on 'The role of race in UK international development discourse' Maya Goodfellow is a writer, broadcaster and academic. She is the author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats, which is out with...
Event 30 Jan 2020 World NTD Day 2020 Understanding the gender dimensions of neglected tropical diseases
Event 23 Jan 2020 CEIDR Innovations Industry Symposium: Accelerating Solutions for Existing & Emerging Infections 09:30-10:00am Registration & welcome reception 10:00-10:10am Welcome and Introduction from Professor Louise Kenny, Executive Pro-...
Event 22 Jan 2020 Teatime Talk Series no 1 -The Far East POW Experience - disease, death, survival and aftermath Professor Geoff Gill  and Dr. Nick BeechingThe event is free but booking is essential via EventbriteThis talk will focus on conditions...
Event 15 Jan 2020 LSTM Seminar: Adam Kamenetzky, NIHR Senior Research Fellow on 'Adding conviction to truth: using logic (modelling) to support your research' If we already knew the results of our research, there’d be no point in doing it - right? That said, applying scientific results in practice and...
Event 9 Dec 2019 2020 Year of the Nurse and Midwife “The health challenges of the 21st Century cannot be overcome without strengthening nursing. It's time to give nurses more recognition, ...
Event 5 Dec 2019 LSTM Graduation - Save the date! LSTM is proud to be holding its 2019 graduation ceremony on Thursday 5 December at St George's Hall, Liverpool.
Event 4 Dec 2019 LSTM Postgraduate Open Day Come along to our Postgraduate Open Day where you'll gain all the information you need to make an informed choice about studying at the...
Event 4 Dec 2019 LSTM Seminar: Mark Taylor, Head of Impact at NIHR on 'Impact Assessment - A Funders Overview' This introductory summary will be looking at impact assessment from a broader view than the current REF exercise. The seminar will touch on some of...
Event 29 Nov 2019 Challenges of a Changing World - 9th Annual Health in Humanitarian Settings Research Symposium LSTM's 9th student led symposium is calling for abstracts from any field of research to the above symposium, a one-day annual event aimed towards...
Event 29 Nov 2019 SciFri on BBC Radio Merseyside A Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine-led radio segment involving academics across LSTM, Liverpool John Moores University and the University of...
Event 28 Nov 2019 LSTM Future Focus  In the lead up to LSTM's 125th anniversary we will hold annual 'Future Focus' events to discuss, debate and hear from experts on a range of...
Event 27 Nov 2019 LSTM Seminar: Dr Susanne Jaspars on 'From development to abandonment: the history and politics of food aid in Sudan' Susanne Jaspars is an independent researcher working on the social and political dynamics of food security, livelihoods and nutrition in situations...
Event 26 Nov 2019 LSTM Seminar: Dr Maia Lesosky on 'Breathing easier: building biostatistics through respiratory research in Africa' Dr Lesosky will discuss her experiences and thoughts on developing highly skilled capacity in research (biostatistics) on the continent especially in...
Event 21 Nov 2019 ASTMH 2019: SESSION 43 - Prioritizing High Burden Settings for High Impact: A Case Study From Malaria Control in Burkina Faso 2019 Annual MeetingASTMH 68th Annual MeetingNovember 20-24, 2019 (Wednesday through Sunday)
Event 20 Nov 2019 LSTM Seminar: Taher Qassim MBE - 'A shepherd in Public Health' Taher will talk about his experience of public health in Liverpool and Yemen and his role in various projects in Liverpool, including his key role in...
Event 16 Nov 2019 TEDxLSTM’s inaugural event 'Unknown Destinations' ‘JourneyNoun1. An act of travelling from one place to another1.1. A long and often difficult process of personal change and development.’Science is...
Event 16 Nov 2019 Secret art of survival exhibition: FEPOW Descendants’ weekend In association with the Secret Art of Survival exhibition at Victoria Gallery & Museum (VG&M), we have organised a special...
Event 13 Nov 2019 LSTM Seminar: Prof John P. Overington - Data mining in the discovery of novel anti-infectives The strategies used in the discovery of anti-infectives is both similar and distinct to the challenges of discovering drugs for chronic human target...
Event 8 Nov 2019 SciFri on BBC Radio Merseyside A Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine-led radio segment involving academics across LSTM, Liverpool John Moores University and the University of...
Event 6 Nov 2019 LSTM Seminar: Chris Lockyear, secretary general of MSF, on "21st century challenges to independent humanitarian action" Chris Lockyear, Secretary General of MSF International, will talk through some of the major challenges that face MSF today, as it approaches fifty...
Event 6 Nov 2019 LEAP Event - Seminar and Student led Debate - 'The Professionalisation of Humanitarian Practice' In celebration of the LEAP programme's achievements to date, we would like to invite you to join us at a series of events on Wednesday 6th...
Event 30 Oct 2019 LSTM Seminar: Dr Antoine Barreaux on 'Integrating vector ecology into disease control: from malaria to African trypanosomiasis' There has been considerable interest in improving epidemiological modelling to help policy and decision making in the context of disease control and...
Event 30 Oct 2019 Impala at 2019 Union World Conference on Lung Health - Hyderabad, India The 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health is the world’s largest gathering of clinicians and public health workers, policymakers, researchers...
Event 22 Oct 2019 LSTM Seminar: Professor Abdulrazaq G. Habib on Challenges and Prospects of Snakebite Management in Sub-Saharan Africa Snakebite envenoming (SBE) is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in agricultural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Every year...
Event 22 Oct 2019 LSTM at the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester LSTM’s Prof. Shabbar Jaffar, head of the department of International Public Health, and colleagues will be at the Science and Industry Museum in...
Event 17 Oct 2019 LSTM Seminar: Dr. Louis Paluku Sabuni on 'Leprosy and NTDs: Complex Care Seeking behaviour in poor settings – the Democratic Republic of Congo experience' The talk will review the impact of intersecting inequities - gender, poverty and disability – on the experiences of people affected by leprosy and...
Event 10 Oct 2019 LSTM Seminar: Jose Gomez-Marquez on 'Construction Kits for Health' Construction Kit methodology applied to global health hardware settings generated an enabling fabrication framework aimed at making clinical...
Event 2 Oct 2019 LSTM Seminar: Dr Jahangir Khan on 'Health Economic Research Needs for Achieving Universal Health Coverage: Empirical Evidence and Way Forward' The presentation will deal with the concepts of economics for universal health coverage (UHC) and research-based evidence (empirical and...
Event 27 Sep 2019 LSTM Seminar: Dr. Claudia Paredes-Esquivel on 'An unexpected summer visitor: Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain' In August 2019, the rat lung worm, A. cantonensis, was found in two neurologically compromised hedgehogs rescued from two different localities...
Event 25 Sep 2019 LSTM Seminar: Mahmood Bhutta on 'Levelling the field. Supporting those marginalised by ear disease. Tackling sweatshops and child labour in NHS supply chains.' In this talk I will discuss two areas I have worked on over the last decade to improve global health equity.  The first is in the recognition...
Event 20 Sep 2019 LSTM Seminar: Dr. Michael Makanga on 'The role of EDCTP in poverty related infectious diseases research & development: A forward looking perspective' The talk will cover how EDCTP fills a vital niche in intervention clinical development and how it brings together researchers and institutions in...
Event 16 Sep 2019 11th European congress on tropical medicine and international health Celebrating 25 years of ECTMIH: Investigation, innovation and implementation
Event 11 Sep 2019 LSTM Seminar: Hugh van’t Hoff, Director & Founder of Facts4Life on 'The long term lessons from Alma Ata: addressing health literacy in Gloucestershire UK and how this is relevant internationally' Hugh will look at the founding principles of the WHO, the conclusions of Alma Ata, the Shanghai and Astana declarations and show how they have...
Event 2 Sep 2019 LSTM Seminar: Compounding inequalities: How climate change, poverty and health entangle In this seminar, Lenore Manderson explores the inevitable impact of rapidly escalating temperatures on the distribution of disease, morbidity...
Event 16 Aug 2019 SciFri on BBC Radio Merseyside A Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine-led radio segment involving academics across LSTM, Liverpool John Moores University and the University of...

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