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News article 21 Feb 2017 LSTM partners with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in its Diploma in UK Medical Practice Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is delighted to announce that it has partnered with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)...
News article 20 Feb 2017 The UK Coalition Against NTDs join forces to advance the agenda 5 Years On The World Health Organisation’s roadmap on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) and the London Declaration on NTDs are marking their 5th anniversary...
News article 16 Feb 2017 LSTM Seminar report: Medical journals and the medicalisation of Global Health Dr Jocalyn Clark, Executive Editor of The Lancet continued LSTM’s seminar series with her talk entitled: Medical journals and the medicalisation of...
News article 13 Feb 2017 Asthma UK launch new report about connected devices LSTM’s Senior Clinical Lecturer, Dr John Blakey, is the lead author on a new report looking at utilising new technology for the management of the...
News article 10 Feb 2017 LSTM’s Dr Ben Morton wins North West Coast Research and innovations Awards Research Student of the Year. Dr Ben Morton has won the Research Student of the Year award at the 2017 North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards. 
News article 9 Feb 2017 Seminar Series report: 'Understanding filarial disease, a story of success' LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk by Charles Mackenzie, Professor of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation at Michigan...
This image was captured by an infra-red tracking system and shows the flight paths of multiple mosquitoes as they attempt to reach a sleeping human protected inside an insecticide-treated be net. The image shows the high concentration of activity on the roof of the net, above the torso of the sleeper beneath. News article 9 Feb 2017 Mosquito research receives $2 million grant to speed up the development of new vector control products LSTM’s Department of Vector Biology has received a major grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a research programme to develop novel...
News article 8 Feb 2017 IVCC secure licence with Indian manufacturer for production of IQKs developed at LSTM IVCC has signed a licence agreement with Tagros Chemicals India to manufacture and commercialise Insecticide Quantification Kits (IQKs) in India, and...
News article 6 Feb 2017 Research finds flaws in studies of mass deworming efforts for children in poor countries The International Journal of Epidemiology finds that three widely cited research studies relating to mass deworming in Africa have substantial...
News article 3 Feb 2017 Scaled-up malaria control efforts breed insecticide resistance in mosquitoes Resistance has swept through mosquito populations in southern Africa, threatening malaria prevention
News article 2 Feb 2017 LSTM Seminar Series: 'What have the genomes ever done for us? How population genomics is revolutionizing our understanding of resistance.' LSTM’s Seminar Series restarted for the second semester with a talk from LSTM’s Martin Donnelly, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics. His seminar...
News article 1 Feb 2017 LSTM’s ambassador for NTDs awarded Commander of the National Order of Valour in Cameroon. One of LSTM’s ambassadors for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has been presented with one of Cameroon’s highest honours at a ceremony earlier this...
Kenyan baby smiling News article 1 Feb 2017 CMNH score A and A+ in Making it Happen Kenya annual review From: CMNH We are delighted to receive A and A+ ratings for the Maternal Newborn Health programme in Kenya, from the project’s funder, the Department for...
News article 27 Jan 2017 Fifth anniversary of the London Declaration on NTDs: Progress made and challenges remaining As we move towards the five-year anniversary of the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), LSTM’s Senior Professorial Fellow David...
News article 26 Jan 2017 LSTM Seminar Report: Systems biology of Zika Infection There was a special seminar at LSTM this week, when Dr Helder Nakaya, Assistant Professor at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Adjunct...
Collecting data at Onyaanya Health Centre News article 24 Jan 2017 Making a difference in Namibia From: CMNH We've recently completed a national assessment of healthcare facilities in Namibia, focusing on emergency obstetric and newborn care, in close...
creative commons credit USAID News article 23 Jan 2017 Study finds the economic benefits of preventive chemotherapy in NTDs to be potentially huge among the poor An international study published in PLOS NTDs reports that the economic benefits in productivity gain from preventive chemotherapy in NTD control and...
News article 18 Jan 2017 Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research launched LSTM and the University of Liverpool have launched a new joint centre which aims to address the urgent need to develop new antimicrobials and...
News article 13 Jan 2017 Seminar report: Quality Improvement in the NHS and Internationally This week saw a special seminar at LSTM when Dr Peter Lachman, CEO of The International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua), delivered a...
Fig 2. Histological analysis of endobacteria content and worm age. News article 6 Jan 2017 A·WOL compared various drugs for their efficacy against onchocerciasis in a randomized, open-label, pilot trial From: AWOL This week, scientists from the A·WOL Consortium published a paper entitled: Comparison of Doxycycline, Minocycline, Doxycycline plus Albendazole and...
News article 6 Jan 2017 The Respiratory Research Team shortlisted for the 2017 North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards. The Respiratory Research Team, a partnership between LSTM and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospital NHS trust, has been shortlisted...
Mother, baby and child resting on a blanket in the shade News article 5 Jan 2017 Study confirms EmONC training improves knowledge and skills in Africa and Asia From: CMNH A recent study confirms that short in-service emergency obstetric care and newborn care (EmOC&NC) training is associated with improved knowledge...
News article 22 Dec 2016 Restriction to gene flow is associated with changes in the molecular basis of pyrethroid resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles funestus Researchers at LSTM have found that there is genetic diversity in the expression of genes responsible for resistance to public health insecticides in...
News article 15 Dec 2016 LSTM researchers lead on 4 MRC Global Challenges Research Fund Foundations Awards Researchers at LSTM are to take the lead on four of the MRC’s Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Foundation Awards due to begin in 2017. Looking...
News article 15 Dec 2016 Trypa-No! Partnership will accelerate elimination of sleeping sickness in Africa New collaboration to scale up intensive prevention, diagnosis and treatment in four countries to reach elimination targets in just three years  
Luigi D'Aquino presenting the findings of the Rwanda evaluation News article 15 Dec 2016 Key findings of Rwanda evaluation From: CMNH This morning Luigi D’Aquino and Audrey Mahieu, LSTM, presented the key findings of the independent evaluation of the Community Health Program (CHP)...
News article 9 Dec 2016 LSTM’s class of 2016 graduated this week at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. LSTM’s class of 2016 graduated this week at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. The graduating class of 72 MSc students, along with five PhD students...
News article 9 Dec 2016 LSTM holds its annual public engagement workshop Approximately 20 staff and students have taken part in LSTM’s annual Public Engagement Workshop, delivered by an associate of the National...
News article 9 Dec 2016 Professor David Molyneux talks at APPMG LSTM’s Emeritus Professor David Molyneux spoke at this week’s All-Party Parliamentary Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (APPMG) Christmas...
News article 8 Dec 2016 LSTM’s newly refurbished library opens LSTM’s newly refurbished library was formerly opened to staff and students by Julia Martin, Head of Information Services, and Professor Alister Craig...
News article 7 Dec 2016 Two year study finds no evidence that cleaner cookstoves reduce pneumonia in children LSTM led Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) finds no evidence that cleaner burning biomass fuelled cookstoves reduce the risk of pneumonia in young...
Terry Kana with midwives in Malawi News article 5 Dec 2016 CMNH celebrates International Volunteering Day From: CMNH 5 December is International Volunteering Day, and a chance for CMNH to focus on the important role volunteers play in delivering its research...
News article 2 Dec 2016 LSTM's Postgraduate Open Day This week LSTM welcomed prospective students as it opened its doors for the second postgraduate open day of the year.LSTM’s Director of International...
One Health. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons News article 29 Nov 2016 Experts call for change in global strategy against schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis LSTM’s Professors Russell Stothard and David Molyneux, along with 16 eminent researchers in the field of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and...
News article 29 Nov 2016 LSTM project receives a special mention in Access to Medicines Index 2016 LSTM’s partnership with pharmaceutical giant GSK looking at the capacity of key African institutions to undertake research into non-communicable...
News article 28 Nov 2016 SciArt Intervention Project at Liverpool Tate The weekend saw an art exhibition developed by the Artist Teachers Association and Liverpool John Moores (LJMU) undergraduate art students, inspired...
News article 25 Nov 2016 LSTM’s 117th Annual General Meeting LSTM’s 117th Annual General Meeting (AGM) has taken place. The meeting saw LSTM’s vice-presidents, the Board of Trustees and Members along with staff...
News article 24 Nov 2016 Seminar Series Report: Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy in infectious diseases. LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from Dr Mariska Leeflang from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and...
News article 23 Nov 2016 Seminar report: Mechanistic understanding to enable multi-targeting anti-infectives. LSTM hosted a special seminar this week as Professor Christopher Dowson and Dr David Roper from the University of Warwick gave a talk entitled:...
News article 23 Nov 2016 LSTM’s Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory (CDPL) receives UKAS accreditation LSTM’s Clinical Diagnostic Parasitology Laboratory (CDPL) has recently undergone its first assessment by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (...

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