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News article 11 Jan 2016 A Scottish Encounter With Tropical Diseases Last week saw LSTM’s Professor Russell Stothard, Director of the CouNTDown consortium attend and talk at a one day symposium at the Wellcome Trust...
News article 6 Jan 2016 Guardian Development Professionals Network lists The Wellbeing Foundation, a partner of LSTM's Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, as one of their favourite NGOs of 2015 The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), an NGO that works in partnership with LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH), has been selected...
News article 17 Dec 2015 CMNH inclusion in Countdown to 2015 report: ‘A Decade of Tracking Progress for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival’ Countdown to 2015, a global movement of 43 multi-stakeholders, with The Lancet as a key partner, has tracked progress on reproductive, maternal,...
News article 16 Dec 2015 Study looks at reasons why paediatric patients drop out of HIV treatment Researchers at LSTM have carried out a study to find out what happens to children who drop out of treatment for HIV and what their outcomes are and...
News article 14 Dec 2015 LSTM awarded a place at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2016 A team from LSTM will be exhibiting, for the very first time, at the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London in July 2016...
News article 10 Dec 2015 A·WOL receives $3.5 million supplementary grant The A·WOL programme is pleased to announce a $3.5 million supplementary grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) for the continuation...
News article 10 Dec 2015 LSTM Researcher gets Frontier Innovator Award. LSTM’s Dr John Dusabe-Richards has been given a Frontiers Innovator Award by the Wellcome Trust.
News article 10 Dec 2015 The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) recruits its 10,000th child The Cooking and Pneumonia Study (CAPS) has recruited its 10,000th child under the age of 5, making it the largest trial of the effects of an advanced...
News article 8 Dec 2015 Wellcome Trust’s life science publication Mosaic features LSTM’s Far Eastern Prisoners Of War (FEPOW) project LSTM’s longest running collaborative project with the former Far Eastern Prisoners Of War (FEPOW), has been celebrated by an audio feature on the...
News article 3 Dec 2015 LSTM receives £1m donation to support Nigerian students Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) has received a donation of £1m from The Bale Settlement, to provide scholarships for students from...
News article 3 Dec 2015 Seminar Series report:The role of the respiratory ecosystem in susceptibility to respiratory infection in infants. LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Debby Bogaert, from the Department of Paediatric Immunology at the University...
Visceral leishmaniasis News article 3 Dec 2015 New paper looks at how diagnostics for visceral leishmaniasis can help elimination programmes. Authors of a new paper published today have used a mathematic model to show how tests able to diagnose cases of kala-azar earlier could help to...
News article 27 Nov 2015 LSTM’s 116th Annual General Meeting LSTM’s 116th Annual General Meeting (AGM) has taken place. Chaired by LSTM’s President Sir Richard Evans CBE, the LSTM’s vice-presidents, the Board...
Professor Sally Theobald: Plenary Lecture News article 26 Nov 2015 Professor Sally Theobald: Plenary Lecture This week saw a plenary lecture by LSTM’s Sally Theobald, Professor of Social Science and International Health. Awarded her chair earlier this year,...
News article 24 Nov 2015 EHPC model to test vaccine efficacy ‘a milestone’ in Investigation of Population-Wide Effects of Vaccines The editorial comment published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine hails the use of Experimental Human Pneumococcal...
Nelson Grisales News article 23 Nov 2015 Mission Malaria! This weekend saw Liverpool’s World Museum hosting a special event entitled How the Body Works devised by the University of Liverpool.  It was...
News article 19 Nov 2015 Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health receives A+ rating from DFID for its 'Making it Happen' programme in South Africa LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) is delighted to have received an A+ rating for its 'Making it Happen' programme* in South Africa...
Professor Steve Ward (left) presents the Leverhulme Medal to Professor Jimmy Volmink News article 18 Nov 2015 Professor Jimmy Volmink delivers LSTM’s 2015 Leverhulme Lecture Professor Jimmy Volmink, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, and Director of Cochrane South...
News article 12 Nov 2015 LSTM holds first Public Engagement workshop Over 20 staff and students took part in LSTM’s first Public Engagement Workshop, delivered by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement...
News article 11 Nov 2015 CMNH in Sierra Leone, rebuilding maternal and newborn health Since Sierra Leone recorded the first Ebola case on 24 May 2014, a total number of 8,704 people have been infected 3,589 of whom died. Of those who...
News article 9 Nov 2015 LSTM and Lancaster University receive MRC Doctoral Training Partnership funding Scheme allows recruitment of up to 7 PhD students per intake yearLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and Lancaster University (LU) have been...
News article 5 Nov 2015 LSTM receives GHIT fund award to continue the development of a new antimalarial compound The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) together with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry (University of Liverpool (UoL)) and the...
A computer generated image of the Liverpool Life Sciences Accelerator News article 5 Nov 2015 New Liverpool life science centre to lead global fight in antibiotic resistance Liverpool’s future as a world class life science hub has taken a huge step forward with the announcement of a new £25m laboratory development that...
News article 4 Nov 2015 COUNTDOWN Consortium supports parliamentary enquiry into Ebola In September and December 2014 the UK International Development Select Committee held enquiries into the Ebola response. They are currently looking...
Doctor with nasal spray vaccine News article 2 Nov 2015 LSTM trial: Will new flu nasal spray increase chances of nasal colonisation with pneumococcus? LSTM has started a clinical trial that will investigate if the new flu nasal spray, which is now given to children in UK, increases the chances of...
Anopheles funestus © James Gathany, CDC; Dr Frank Collins, University of Notre Dame News article 30 Oct 2015 LSTM researchers decipher molecular basis of resistance in the African vector Anopheles funestus Researchers at LSTM have shown the means by which one of the major species of mosquito responsible for transmitting malaria in Africa is becoming...
News article 30 Oct 2015 LSTM at the 2015 COR-NTD and ASTMH conferences This week many LSTM staff and groups travelled to Philadelphia, USA to attend two important annual events within the 2015 calendar of Tropical...
News article 29 Oct 2015 Launch of the COUNTDOWN Programme in Ghana The Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Programme under the Public Health Division of the Ghana Health Service officially launched the COUNTDOWN...
Ashwaq Alnazawi receives hger award from His Highness Prince Mohammed Bin Nawaf News article 29 Oct 2015 Award for LSTM PhD student Ashwaq Alnazawi PhD Student Ashwaq Alnazawi, studying at LSTM, was honoured last month at during a ceremony at the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in London.
News article 23 Oct 2015 Professor Louis Niessen to talk at ASTMH LSTM’s Chair in Health Economics, Professor Niessen will be speaking at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s (ASTMH) 64th annual...
Image Courtesy: European Commission DG ECHO News article 23 Oct 2015 The impact of Ebola on TB in West Africa LSTM’s Drs Derek Sloan and Tim O’Dempsey have examined the impact that the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease in relation to the incidence of...
News article 23 Oct 2015 Building Back Better: ReBUILD Consortium launches new resource on gender and post-conflict health systems. The outputs from ReBUILD's collaborative work on gender in post-conflict health systems has now been developed into 'Building Back Better...
News article 22 Oct 2015 REACHOUT holds 5th Consortium meeting in Indonesia The 5th REACHOUT consortium meeting was held from 7th-16th October and was hosted by the Eijkman Institute in Cianjur, Indonesia. REACHOUT colleagues...
Professor Herbert Gilles at the Wellcome Witness Seminar on ‘British Contributions to Medical Research and Education In Africa after the Second World War’ courtesy of History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group. Photo credit: Wellcome Library, London News article 21 Oct 2015 In Memoriam: Emeritus Dean and Professor in Tropical Medicine Herbert Michael Gilles (1921 – 2015) It is with great sadness that LSTM wishes to announce the passing of its Vice-President, former Dean and Professor in Tropical Medicine Herbert...
© Flickr Creative Commons Photo ID: Hoel_110725_ News article 21 Oct 2015 LSTM’s health economists call for strategies for universal access to medicines LSTM’s health economists Professor Louis Niessen and Dr Jahangir Khan outline the importance for universal access to medicines in the control of...
© Flickr Creative Commons Ton Rulkens News article 21 Oct 2015 Updated Cochrane Review: Interventions to improve water quality for preventing diarrhoea Researchers from Emory University, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the World Health Organization have carried out an updated...
A woman with her 'red health card', which allows her to access government health services in the Korail slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Lucy Milmo/DFID News article 20 Oct 2015 Bangladesh Health Successes shift Chronic Diseases to Poor A study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology shows that over the past decades Bangladesh observed a successful health transition...
Amuda Baba Dieu-Merci, Executive Director of Institut Panafricain de Santé Communautaire et Medecine Tropicale (IPASC) News article 19 Oct 2015 Human resources for Maternal Health in rural DR Congo: Addressing the challenges Amuda Baba Dieu-Merci, Executive Director of Institut Panafricain de Santé Communautaire et Medecine Tropicale (IPASC), visited LSTM to talk to staff...
News article 16 Oct 2015 Brian Faragher: Plenary Lecture This week saw a plenary lecture by LSTM’s Brian Faragher, Professor of Medical Statistics. Awarded his chair last year, Professor Faragher’s lecture...
News article 15 Oct 2015 Institute of Directors (IoD) visit to LSTM This week LSTM played host to a visit from the Institute of Director (IoD), as over 40 of their members were offered a tour and were given...

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