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News article 3 Sep 2019 Universal coverage, chronic treatments and inequalities In advance of the upcoming UN high-level meeting on the topic, LSTM’s Professors Louis Niessen and Bertie Squire have published a long comment paper...
News article 2 Sep 2019 LSTM and LFC Foundation return to Malawi LSTM and the LFC Foundation return to Malawi this week to deliver the final stage of their joint programme - Health Goals Malawi.
News article 27 Aug 2019 Improving quality of care and measuring efficacy: Two weeks of training with healthcare providers in Togo From: CMNH Togo, a small country in West Africa, has made significant progress in healthcare over recent years. Despite this, unfortunately out of every 100,00...
Photo Courtesy of Photoshare News article 27 Aug 2019 Community Health Workers' roles should be based on their length of training and level of education From: CMNH Community health workers (CHWs) are individuals with an in-depth understanding of the community culture and language and have received...
News article 22 Aug 2019 Improving quality of care and measuring efficacy: Two weeks of training with healthcare providers in Togo Togo, a small country in West Africa, has made significant progress in healthcare over recent years. Despite this, unfortunately out of every 100,00...
News article 22 Aug 2019 Gut power: Testing Innovations to Prevent Malnutrition LSTM is partnering with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) on a new £2 million project in Kenya. Our aim is to assess whether...
News article 31 Jul 2019 Tickets now on sale for TEDxLSTM’s inaugural event 'Unknown Destinations' Tickets are now on sale for TEDxLSTM’s inaugural event Unknown Destinations, being held at the Museum of Liverpool on Saturday 16th November. An...
News article 30 Jul 2019 Professor Bertie Squire appointed as LSTM’s Dean of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health LSTM Professor Bertie Squire has been appointed as the new Dean of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health.
News article 27 Jul 2019 Researchers at LSTM find monthly preventative treatment with antimalarial DP safe and effective to prevent malaria in pregnancy in Asia Pacific LSTM researchers, working with colleagues in Indonesia and Australia, carried out the first clinical trial in Asia Pacific comparing a new malaria in...
News article 26 Jul 2019 Researchers show the importance of copy-number variants in the development of insecticide resistance in malaria mosquitoes Researchers from LSTM, working alongside colleagues from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford,...
News article 24 Jul 2019 LSTM teaching geographic data skills to Central American ministries of health in El Salvador LSTM staff have recently returned from delivering a successful, week-long, training workshop in geographic data skills for operational staff in El...
News article 24 Jul 2019 Latest LSTM academic promotions LSTM is pleased to announce the promotion of five members of its academic staff to Professor and five to Reader following ratification by its Board...
News article 23 Jul 2019 Let Teachers SHINE competition funds school to be a part of Swab and Send LSTM’s Swab and Send project, devised by Dr Adam Roberts, is being used to increase understanding of antimicrobial resistance among school children...
News article 22 Jul 2019 LSTM returns to the Bluedot festival at Jodrell Bank LSTM attended this year’s Bluedot Festival at Jodrell Bank, attracting huge audiences for the three-day festival, with contributions from Vector...
Plasmodium falciparum late-stage gametocyte, one of the parasite stages targeted by primaquine News article 19 Jul 2019 Understanding the mode of action of the antimalarial primaquine: new insights into a 70 year old puzzle Researchers at LSTM have taken significant steps in understanding the way that the anti-malarial drug primaquine (PQ) works, which they hope will...
News article 18 Jul 2019 LSTM’s Professor Henry Mwandumba receives the 2019 Royal Society Africa Prize LSTM’s newly promoted Professor Henry Mwandumba has been honoured by The Royal Society, being named as the recipient of this year’s Royal Society...
News article 17 Jul 2019 LSTM systematic review: menstrual cups safe, cost effective and enable waste saving Researchers at LSTM have carried out the first scientific review about menstrual cups and found them to be safe and potentially as effective as other...
News article 10 Jul 2019 HiVE - LSTM’s pioneering virtual incubator seeks mentors LSTM seeks additional mentors to join the pilot of its Health Innovation in a Virtual Environment (HiVE) incubation programme. 
News article 9 Jul 2019 LSTM’s new online course: The Professional Diploma in Travel Health The next LSTM/NaTHNaC online Professional Diploma in Travel Health starts on 26 September 2019. This exciting course, which first started in May 2019...
News article 5 Jul 2019 Researchers investigate the role of the nasal ecosystem and viral infection on acquisition of a bacterium that causes pneumonia LSTM researchers, along with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and the University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands, have looked at the...
News article 3 Jul 2019 LSTM at the Big Bang festival for the third year running! A team from LSTM’s LITE led by Zachary Stavrou-Dowd took part in the Big Bang North West on the 2nd of July at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool.
News article 3 Jul 2019 £300k awarded for new translational research projects by CEIDR The Liverpool Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research (CEIDR) has awarded £300,000 to support seven new collaborative translational...
News article 27 Jun 2019 MRC Confidence in Concept Fund 2018-19 The Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium is managing a MRC Confidence in Concept Award 2018-19 of £540,000, which can be allocated to individual...
News article 26 Jun 2019 New scholarship opportunities for future leaders in Global Health from Ghana and Nigeria LSTM is delighted to offer new scholarship opportunities to future leaders in global health from Ghana and Nigeria applying for a postgraduate...
News article 25 Jun 2019 CMNH presents at the RCOG World Congress From: CMNH The 2019 World Congress of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) took place in London from 17 – 19th June 2019. The programme...
Image credit: CARTAfrica News article 25 Jun 2019 Measuring Impact: Improving evaluations of research capacity strengthening programmes The Centre for Capacity Research at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in partnership with the African Population and Health Research Centre...
News article 25 Jun 2019 RSTMH and LSTM open nominations for the Hemingway Award 2019 Fellows and members of Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) and students, alumni or staff members of the Liverpool School of...
News article 25 Jun 2019 LSTM PhD student, Mr Edwin Panford-Quainoo, receives Antimicrobial Stewardship fellowship Edwin Panford-Quainoo has recently been accepted onto a Chief Pharmaceutical Officer Global Health Fellowship. 
A variety of different bacteria and fungi isolated as part of LSTM's Swab and Send project News article 24 Jun 2019 £3.54m boost for Liverpool based Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) research Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and The University of Liverpool (UoL) have been awarded £3.54m for a research project that aims to...
News article 20 Jun 2019 In Memoriam: Carmel Bates Carmel Bates was a much loved Departmental Secretary in LSTM's Vector Biology Department who sadly passed away on 28th May 2019.
News article 20 Jun 2019 LSTM returns to Bluedot Festival For the third year in a row LSTM will be present at the Bluedot Festival at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK. The popular festival will...
Photo credit: Anna Trelfa News article 19 Jun 2019 Global burden of snakebite discussed in UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and NTDs LSTM’s Professor Robert Harrison has co-ordinated a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (...
News article 13 Jun 2019 Start of 'High consequence infection disease from bench to outbreak response' conference LSTM is hosting the NIHR funded Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections’ conference on Ebola and other high consequence...
News article 10 Jun 2019 LSTM co-signs open letter calling for fairer UK visa system LSTM Director, Professor David Lalloo, is a signatory on a letter calling for a fair and equitable visa system that protects collaborations needed to...
News article 10 Jun 2019 Xpert Ultra test for diagnosing TB now included in Cochrane Review Tuberculosis (TB) causes more deaths globally than any other infectious disease and is a top 10 cause of death worldwide. Globally in 2017, of the...
News article 6 Jun 2019 LSTM collaborative Photovoice exhibition at the Fabric District Festival 2019 This weekend sees a celebration of LSTM’s local area at the Fabric District Arts Festival, with a number of art and fashion events – including LSTM’s...
News article 6 Jun 2019 Equality in Science Symposium 2019 This week the Equality in Science symposium, organised by a committee of PhD students and early career researchers, was hosted at LSTM . The...
News article 6 Jun 2019 New systematic review shows that early warning systems are effective in improving outcomes for pregnant women From: CMNH Early Warning Systems (EWS) are used in medicine as a way of identifying a potential problem ahead of time. This enables healthcare providers to make...
News article 6 Jun 2019 Latest study from LSTM: Introducing risk inequality metrics in tuberculosis policy development Researchers led by LSTM’s Dr. Gabriela Gomes have demonstrated, in a paper published today in the journal Nature...
News article 3 Jun 2019 Moving on from paper: Using tablets to collect electronic data in low resource settings From: CMNH Collecting health data in low- and middle-income countries is largely conducted using paper-based forms. In fact, since 2006, researchers from the...

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