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News article 11 Oct 2018 Health Systems Research 2018: LSTM Professor Theobald et al in The Lancet on Implementation Research While acting as one of the local hosts for the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research (HSR 2018(link is external)) taking place in...
News article 11 Oct 2018 Nose picking and rubbing can spread pneumonia causing bacteria Researchers from LSTM, along with colleagues from the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, have completed a study that shows that pneumonia-causing...
News article 11 Oct 2018 LSTM launches MSc Global Health at the Fifth Global symposium of Health Systems Research Against the backdrop of more than 2000 international delegates meeting in Liverpool to discuss health systems research, LSTM has launched a new...
News article 11 Oct 2018 LSTM Scientific Conference: The role of vector control in disease elimination As part of the two days celebrating the work of Professor Janet Hemingway CBE FRS as she retires as LSTM’s Director, a scientific conference was held...
News article 9 Oct 2018 This is your Life Scientific - Professor Janet Hemingway celebrated ahead of her retirement as the Director of LSTM To mark the retirement as Director of Professor Janet Hemingway, LSTM invited her family, friends and colleagues through the years to a special event...
News article 5 Oct 2018 B!RTH plays performed at Wellcome Collection in London The B!RTH Project, which is coordinated by LSTM, performed two of its plays in front of an invited audience at the Wellcome Collection in...
News article 4 Oct 2018 Emerging Voices 2018 at LSTM LSTM is playing host to 2018’s Emerging Voices for Global Health meeting ahead of the Fifth Symposium on Health Systems Research which begins in...
News article 2 Oct 2018 £2 million ARCS project holds inaugural meeting in Liverpool The African Research Collaboration on Sepsis (ARCS), a NIHR-funded research group, held its inaugural launch meeting in Liverpool.
News article 1 Oct 2018 LSTM’s Dr Shevin Jacob receives a leadership award from University of Harvard Alumni Association LSTM’s Senior Clinical Lecturer, Dr Shevin Jacob, has been honoured with a Leadership Award in Public Health Practice from the Harvard T.H. Chan...
News article 26 Sep 2018 LSTM based IMPALA programme supports World Lung Day with inflatable lungs Researchers and programme staff from The International Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung Health & TB in Africa (IMPALA), spent the day...
© Zikmund Bartonίček The image “Shedding” depicts exposing snails (Bulinus and Indoplanorbis) to sunlight to provoke trematode – and especially schistosome – cercariae shedding in Barombi Kotto, Cameroon. This research will help efforts to tackle NTDs, including schistosomiasis. News article 24 Sep 2018 LSTM MSc student wins top prize in the Beat NTDs photo contest. As the Neglected Tropical Diseases NGO Network (NNN) Annual Meeting begins in Addis Ababa, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (...
News article 21 Sep 2018 Swab and Send at New Scientist Live in London The New Scientist Live Exhibition opened this week at the ExCel exhibition centre in London with LSTM's Dr Adam Roberts’s Swab and Send project as...
News article 19 Sep 2018 LSTM and TB Alliance collaborate to develop new TB therapies This new partnership is supported by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to research drug regimens to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis
News article 18 Sep 2018 LSTM’s Dr Grant Hughes recipient of Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship. LSTM’s senior lecturer Dr Grant Hughes has been announced as one of the first recipients of the prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship.
Copyright 2015 John Gray India baby News article 17 Sep 2018 World Prematurity Day - 17th November 2018 Worldwide, an estimated 15 million babies are born prematurely (before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy) every year. These babies face the highest...
News article 17 Sep 2018 IMPALA supports set-up of first ever air quality data monitoring sites in Cameroon and Benin The LuLi project’s ‘Exposure to air pollution in adults with chronic non-communicable respiratory diseases (NCD-R) in Benin and Cameroon: a cross-...
News article 14 Sep 2018 LSTM led partnership awarded £1.5 million for NTD drug development An LSTM led partnership has been awarded nearly £1.5 million from the Medical Research Council (MRC) for the pre-clinical development of a candidate...
News article 10 Sep 2018 New paper shows conserved networks of collateral susceptibility to antibiotics in the human pathogen Escherichia coli LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts is a co-author on a new paper published in Nature Communications which reports conserved collateral susceptibility to...
News article 5 Sep 2018 LSTM Emeritus Professor David Molyneux receives Mary Kingsley Medal LSTM has awarded Emeritus Professor and senior Professorial Fellow David Molyneux its highest honour, the Mary Kingsley Medal, in recognition of...
News article 3 Sep 2018 The British Society for Parasitology Autumn Symposium in Liverpool The British Society for Parasitology (BSP) held its Autumn Symposium at the University of Liverpool’s Foresight Centre, organised this year by LSTM’s...
News article 31 Aug 2018 The Global Asthma Report LSTM is proud to have contributed to a global campaign to combat asthma being led by the Global Asthma Network, as they launch the Global Asthma...
News article 29 Aug 2018 IMPALA supports PATS Spirometry training in Kilimanjaro Tanzania Certificate of Competence in Foundational Spirometry short course and Spirometry Quality Assurance and Over-reading workshopBy Lindsay Zurba,...
News article 28 Aug 2018 Cochrane review looks at the accuracy of Xpert® MTB/RIF for the diagnosis of extrapulmonary TB In one-fifth of people with active tuberculosis (TB), the site of disease is outside the lungs (extrapulmonary TB). Some forms of extrapulmonary TB,...
News article 23 Aug 2018 LSTM receives Professor Gordon’s (1893 – 1961) archive from Gordon family A brief ceremony marked the formal handover of the archive of LSTM professor R.M. Gordon (1893 – 1961) from his sons Peter and John, earlier this...
Presentation of the Health Goals Malawi project during the press conference in Blantyre, Malawi News article 21 Aug 2018 Health Goals Project Kicks Off in Malawi Liverpool Football Club’s official charity, the LFC Foundation, and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) proudly presented their ambitions...
The Kofi Annan Foundation ‘Snakebites in Africa: Challenges and Solutions’ meeting (Dec 2016). From left: Mr Kofi Annan, Professor Harrison, LSTM; Professor Turner, Wellcome Trust; Dr LaBelle, Global Health Investment Fund; Dr Abela-Ridder, WHO; Dr Williams, Global Snakebite Initiative; Dr Alcoba, MSF News article 20 Aug 2018 A Tribute to Mr Kofi Annan (1938 - 2018) LSTM joins the global sadness over the passing of Mr Kofi Annan, a universally respected advocate of the world’s poor and disadvantaged.
News article 13 Aug 2018 IMPALA supports first French translated PATS spirometry training in Cameroon LSTM's International Multidisciplinary Programme to Address Lung Health and TB in Africa (IMPALA) and Lung Health in Africa across the life course (...
A study bed net in a living space in Burkina Faso. Credit: Durham University/Steve Lindsay News article 11 Aug 2018 New type of bednet could help fight against malaria The results of the first clinical trial of a new type of bednet containing two active ingredients have been published in the Lancet. The Olyset® Duo...
News article 1 Aug 2018 London International Youth Science Forum visits LSTM LSTM has played host to delegation from the London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF) as 19 students aged between 16-21 years old were...
News article 31 Jul 2018 LSTM led collaboration ARCS receives £2 Million for NIHR for research on Sepsis in Africa LSTM is to lead a new multinational project on sepsis following a £2 million award from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR).
News article 24 Jul 2018 NTDs remain a leading cause of disabilities. Are we doing enough? The UK’s Department for Development (DFID) is putting the spotlight on disability through the Global Disability Summit taking place on Tuesday, 24th...
News article 24 Jul 2018 The 2018 Class of BSc Tropical Disease Biology Students Graduate In conjunction with the University of Liverpool (UoL), the LSTM oversees and provides undergraduate teaching within the Tropical Disease Biology (TDB...
News article 23 Jul 2018 LSTM at the Bluedot LSTM has been out in force at this year’s Bluedot festival at Jodrell Bank.
News article 20 Jul 2018 HIV game developed by LSTM shown at International AIDS conference LSTM’s Engaging Tools for Communication in Health (ETCH) team will be demonstrating their new game ‘Battle in the Blood’ at the 22nd ...
News article 19 Jul 2018 LSTM at the Big Bang festival for the second year running! Last week saw LSTM’s Department of Parasitology led by Dr Kelly Johnston, take part in the Big Bang North West on the 10th of July at the Exhibition...
News article 18 Jul 2018 Galkoff’s and the Secret Life of Pembroke Place – archaeological dig begins LSTM and National Museums Liverpool’s joint project, Galkoff’s and the secret life of Pembroke Place, has started excavations on LSTM’s campus.
News article 13 Jul 2018 New study maps the areas where people are most vulnerable to death following snakebite PhD candidate Joshua Longbottom, studying at LSTM, is first author on a new paper published in the journal The Lancet which identifies hotspots...
News article 12 Jul 2018 Professor Philip Padfield becomes HEA Principal Fellow LSTM’s Dean of Education, Professor Phil Padfield, has been awarded the status of Principal Fellow by the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
News article 11 Jul 2018 LSTM expands its research in arbovirus biology and mosquito microbiomes with the appointment of Dr Grant Hughes. LSTM is pleased to welcome Dr Grant Hughes as he joins the departments of Vector Biology and Parasitology as a Senior Lecturer in August this year.
© UNICEF Malawi/2018/Andrew Brown News article 6 Jul 2018 LSTM project uses drones to find mosquito breeding sites A new project using drones to find where mosquitoes are breeding to help efforts in malaria control has been launched in Malawi. The project is...

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