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News article 16 May 2013 Communication across cultures: Lessons from DFID programmes in Pakistan The Managing Director of DHA, Daniel Harris, gave an interactive presentation to LSTM students and staff as part of LSTM’s short course in...
News article 15 May 2013 4th IntHEC partners meeting in Niamey, Niger The partners of the Health, Education and Community Integration (IntHEC) consortium, led by LSTM’s Angela Obasi, are meeting in Niamey, Niger, to...
News article 13 May 2013 Prize winning research on insecticide resistance LSTM PhD student Ako Victorien Constant Edi has been designated a prize winner at the University of Liverpool postgraduate research Online Poster Day...
News article 9 May 2013 LSTM receives Clinical Pathology Accreditation LSTM’s Clinical Parasitology Diagnostic Laboratory has been accredited by Clinical Pathology Accreditation (UK) Ltd. The accreditation...
News article 8 May 2013 River Blindness transmission with ivermectin treatment: How long is mass drug administration needed? LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Poppy Lamberton, Research Associate in the Department of Infectious Disease...
News article 3 May 2013 Masters Project Presentation Day 2013 Yesterday 58 students from the MSc in International Public Health, MSc in Tropical and Infectious Diseases, MSc Tropical Paediatrics...
News article 2 May 2013 TB REACH project Ethiopia-LSTM wins prestigious medal in Ethiopia The TB REACH project Ethiopia-LSTM and its outcomes were presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the TB Research Advisory Committee, Federal...
News article 30 Apr 2013 Glasgow joins Liverpool in a new Wellcome Trust Centre for Global Health Research Wellcome Trust awards over £750,000 to Centre to support young, talented scientists in global healthLiverpool, 30 April 2013 - The Wellcome...
News article 26 Apr 2013 Integration of malaria and NTD control programmes provides mutual benefits Professor Moses Bockarie, Director of the Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, based at LSTM, has noticed a recent surge in publications...
News article 26 Apr 2013 LSTM receives esteemed Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award The Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science, has announced the appointment of a host of new Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit...
News article 25 Apr 2013 World Malaria Day 2013: call to invest in the future to defeat malaria Today is World Malaria Day. It provides an opportunity to look back on the progress that has been made in recent years and commit to maintaining that...
News article 24 Apr 2013 Evaluating the Health Transition Fund in Zimbabwe The Health Transition Fund (HTF) was announced in 2011 to revitalise Zimbabwe’s healthcare system in order to tackle the country’s high maternal...
News article 19 Apr 2013 Applied Bioinformatics Poster Day Masters in Biology and Control of Parasites and Disease Vectors student, Pelagie Boko, has won ‘Best Poster’ at LSTM’s Applied...
News article 18 Apr 2013 Study reveals the potential of Human Nasal Colonization as a Universal Pneumococcal Vaccine A study led by LSTM researchers and published in this week’s edition of theAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine has...
News article 17 Apr 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: The Social Determinants of Health and Disability LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a presentation by Dr Raymond Lang, Honorary Senior Research Associate from the Leonard Cheshire...
News article 16 Apr 2013 LSTM present at RCN Congress in Liverpool LSTM will be exhibiting at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress at the ACC Liverpool from 21-24 April 2013. The congress is a free...
News article 12 Apr 2013 SPINE: Improving data collection in developing countries To quantify the disease burden in developing countries has always been a challenge as the data needed is often sparse and the quality of the data is...
News article 11 Apr 2013 Parliamentary and Scientific Committee Chair Andrew Miller MP visits LSTM Mr Andrew Miller MP, chair of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee and member of the All-Party Group on Malaria & Neglected...
News article 10 Apr 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Trypanosomes and Leishmania – drug targets in protein kinase gene families The seminar series continued today with a presentation by Professor Jeremy Mottram entitled: Trypanosomes and Leishmania: drug targets in...
News article 10 Apr 2013 Chair of APPMG Jeremy LeFroy MP visits LSTM The Chair of the UK parliament’s All-Party Group on Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG), Jeremy LeFroy MP visited LSTM today...
News article 8 Apr 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Scaling-up HIV treatment in resource limited settings LSTM’s seminar series continued today with a lecture entitled ‘HIV treatment scale up in resource-limited settings: evolving global policy in a...
News article 8 Apr 2013 LSTM and UoL student Catrin Jones wins Royal Society of Medicine essay prize University of Liverpool medical student Catrin Jones, currently intercalating a MSc in Humanitarian Studies at LSTM, has won the Royal...
News article 4 Apr 2013 Household air pollution: a call for studies into biomarkers of exposure and predictors of respiratory disease Household air pollution (HAP) from indoor burning of biomass or coal is a leading global cause of infection and death, mostly due to its association...
News article 4 Apr 2013 New England Journal of Medicine: Combination antifungal therapy for cryptococcal meningitis LSTM’s Dean and professor David Lalloo is co-senior author of an influential study on combination antifungal therapy for cryptococcal...
News article 2 Apr 2013 LSTM in joint appointment with University of Warwick of Professor Steve Torr Steve Torr recently joined LSTM to take up a position as Professor of Neglected Tropical Diseases within the Vector Biology Department, but with...
News article 27 Mar 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Private providers participation for maternal health care delivery: Evidence from India The latest instalment from the LSTM seminar series was presented today by Dr Parthasarathi Ganguly, MBBS, MD, M.Phil. Dr Ganguly, Additional...
News article 25 Mar 2013 LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit completes orientation workshops for new facilitators LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit has just completed two training workshops for new volunteer facilitators for their Life Saving Skills and...
News article 25 Mar 2013 LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit completes orientation workshops for new facilitators LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit has just completed two training workshops for new volunteer facilitators for their Life Saving Skills and...
News article 22 Mar 2013 REACHOUT: New website on close-to-community providers of healthcare launched From midwives, to traditional birth attendants, to informal private practitioners, community health workers, and lay counsellors; close-to-community...
News article 20 Mar 2013 Honorary appointment for Professor Mark Woodhead Professor Mark Woodhead has been appointed as Honorary Research Fellow of the LSTM. Professor Woodhead trained in London and currently is Consultant...
News article 20 Mar 2013 LSTM holds 15th NGO Forum The 15th LSTM Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Forum will be held at LSTM on Friday 22 March 2013.
News article 14 Mar 2013 LSTM Director Professor Janet Hemingway steps down as CEO of IVCC LSTM Director Janet Hemingway is stepping down as CEO of IVCC (The Innovative Vector Control Consortium) of which LSTM is a founding partner. After...
News article 8 Mar 2013 International Women’s day - today 8th March There are lots of activities today celebrating the role and achievements of women worldwide and highlighting areas for further action. As part of the...
News article 6 Mar 2013 UK parliamentarians visit Ethiopia-LSTM TB REACH Project in Awassa, Ethiopia In the week of 18th February, a cross-party UK parliamentary delegation went to Ethiopia to explore how the country is dealing with key health...
News article 5 Mar 2013 CROI Conference 2013: LSTM presents HIV self-testing study in Malawi showing significant effect on willingness to report positive results and higher rate of ART initiation Researchers show that optional home initiation of HIV care after self-testing substantially improves linkage into HIV care.Atlanta, 5 March 2013
News article 4 Mar 2013 New Course – Introduction to Ultrasound in Low Resource Settings (20-24 May 2013) This course has been introduced following requests from many students over the last 4 years.  We have designed this course for Medical Doctors...
News article 13 Feb 2013 LSTM study leads WHO to update its malaria prevention policy An estimated 32 million women who become pregnant each year can benefit from preventive therapy Liverpool, 13 February 2013 – A study led...
News article 4 Feb 2013 Qatar hosts first training course for Disease Control Programmes conducted by LSTM’s Centre for Health in the Eastern Mediterranean (CHEM) A 10 day course with modules in planning, monitoring and evaluation in Disease Control Programmes was held at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) in...
News article 31 Jan 2013 Tuberculosis: WHO-Endorsed Test Offers Rapid Detection A diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) can accurately and quickly detect both TB and drug-resistant strains, according to a new study conducted by...
News article 13 Dec 2012 LSTM & Aintree University Hospital in £2.7m Funding to Save Lives of Children in Africa A research team from Liverpool has been awarded £2.7m to fund a trial that could benefit some of the most deprived communities around the world....

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