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© Flickr Creative Commons CJTF-HOA Public Affairs News article 8 Sep 2015 Incentives and enablers to improve adherence in tuberculosis Does giving people with TB money for bus fares help ensure they complete treatment? Giving reimbursements, food vouchers or food might, and recently...
News article 4 Sep 2015 COUNTDOWN brings stakeholders together at LSTM Over the past week Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been hosting guests from Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia who are partners in the...
News article 2 Sep 2015 Better engagement with communities could improve health care for children with a fever Supporting communities with health promotion campaigns could help mothers and other caregivers to seek health care for their children, ensuring that...
News article 1 Sep 2015 How does an insecticide treated bed net actually work? New research from LSTM has revealed precisely how insecticide-treated bed nets are so effective against malaria mosquitoes.  
News article 28 Aug 2015 Dr Mark Paine, returns to Wits to deliver faculty lecture Dr Mark Paine, a Reader in Insect Biochemistry at LSTM, returned to the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Wits Research Institute for Malaria at...
News article 27 Aug 2015 LSTM’s Dr Maxine Caws co-author on open access textbook on TB in adults and children A key textbook, ‘Tuberculosis in Adults and Children’, is now available via a free download on the publisher’s website. LSTM’s senior lecturer Dr...
Laura Profitt News article 25 Aug 2015 LSTM/UoL student takes top award at graduation This summer saw 17 students graduate from the University of Liverpool with BSc degrees in Tropical Disease Biology. This undergraduate course is...
“PERFORM makes you dissect the problems and it’s a very systematic way of going about looking at the problem”. District manager #HSR2015 News article 21 Aug 2015 LSTM panellists share experiences in Twitter chat, hosted by Health Systems Global, on people centred methods and approaches Health Systems Global hosted a Twitter chat on people centred research methods this week. LSTM colleagues Dr. Joanna Raven and Dr. Miriam Taegtmeyer...
LSTM's new STEM ambassadors Team News article 20 Aug 2015 Introducing LSTM’s new STEM ambassadors team As part of the Public Engagement activities at LSTM, researchers Hayley Tyrer, Gemma Molyneux and Rachel Clare, who are based in the Department of...
News article 18 Aug 2015 LSTM midwives win International Fellowship Award funded by Wellbeing of Women and the Royal College of Midwives Two midwives, Jaki Lambert and Terry Kana, from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), have won the International Fellowship Award (IFA)...
Captive Memories front cover News article 17 Aug 2015 70th anniversary of VJ day marks LSTM's longest running project with Far East Prisoners of War (FEPOW) August 15th saw the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, which marked the end of hostilities with Japan during World War II. This is also the point at which...
News article 17 Aug 2015 LSTM's Centre for Maternal & Newborn Health's fundraising success for Ebola-hit hospitals Earlier this year LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) cycled 4,247 miles to raise funds for urgently needed medical equipment for...
News article 11 Aug 2015 New Ebola study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases LSTM’s research fellow and lecturer, Dr Tom Fletcher, is senior author on a new paper published today in the journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases,...
© Creative Commons. CDC/ Frank Collins. Photo credit: James Gathany News article 7 Aug 2015 Vector and reservoir control for preventing leishmaniasis Using insecticides to treat walls, bednets, bedsheets or curtains is known to prevent malaria, but may also be effective at preventing leishmaniasis...
News article 31 Jul 2015 A new website for LSTM LSTM has launched a new look website to highlight the research and services undertaken in Liverpool and across the more than 60 countries in which it...
News article 23 Jul 2015 Educational and economic benefits of deworming children questioned by Cochrane systematic review Large scale programmes to deworm all school children in low income countries as promoted by the World Health Organization, do not lead to the...
News article 22 Jul 2015 Mapping of Schistosomiasis and Soil-Transmitted Helminths in Namibia A new generation protocol, using increased mapping coverage in Northern Namibia to survey thousands of school-going children on Schistosomiasis and...
News article 20 Jul 2015 Seminar Series report: “Equity, poverty and infectious diseases from a New Zealand perspective” LSTM’s Seminar Series continued with a talk on 16th July by Professor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago,...
News article 15 Jul 2015 LSTM Alumnus, Dr Michael Makanga is designated as the next Executive Director of the EDCTP During its last meeting, the General Assembly of the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) selected Dr Michael...
News article 10 Jul 2015 The LSTM Professional Certificate in Supporting Learning 2015. The LSTM Professional Certificate in Supporting Learning is a short course designed to enhance the teaching skills of LSTM staff.  Participants...
News article 10 Jul 2015 Seminar Series report: From complex interventions to complex systems: implications for evaluation LSTM’s Seminar Series continued with a talk by Mark Petticrew, Professor of Public Health Evaluation at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical...
News article 6 Jul 2015 High Commissioner of Mozambique visits LSTM LSTM played host to a visit from the High Commissioner of the Republic of Mozambique, his Excellency Carlos dos Santos on Monday, when he met with...
News article 6 Jul 2015 LSTM and RLBUHT Respiratory group win Chief Executive’s award The LSTM and Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospital’s Respiratory Research Team received The Chief Executive’s Award at the recent Make...
News article 6 Jul 2015 LSTM’s Lady Bugs raise money for Cancer Research UK This weekend saw Cancer Research UK’s 5k Race for Life event at Sefton Park in Liverpool, and taking part was a team of 53 from LSTM called the Lady...
News article 6 Jul 2015 Book Launch: Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook Dr Tiago Antão, a Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow at LSTM has had a new book, Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook, published.
News article 3 Jul 2015 Dept of Vector Biology showcases its work to industry partners LSTM’s Vector Biology department have opened their doors to industry partners, highlighting the unique variety of work that is undertaken from the...
News article 1 Jul 2015 Seminar Series report: Variation in vector competence of field populations of Aedes aegypti amd Aedes albocpictus LSTM’s seminar series continued last week with a presentation from Dr Paulo Pimenta from the Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, Belo Horizonte, Brazil...
News article 30 Jun 2015 Researchers at LSTM find DDT-based IRS suboptimal for VL elimination in India Researchers at LSTM have found that due to widespread insecticide resistance and poor quality assurance of spraying activities, that DDT-based indoor...
News article 25 Jun 2015 Professor Hemingway is welcomed as an honorary fellow by the Faculty of Public Health LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway CBE is among seven eminent scientists being admitted to Honorary Fellowship by the by Faculty of Public...
News article 17 Jun 2015 Fundraising for LSTM at World Gin Day The historic link between quinine and the treatment of malaria was celebrated for World Gin Day on Saturday 13th June, when the makers of...
News article 16 Jun 2015 LSTM-MLW developed method to optimize antimalarial dosing improves treatment outcomes across Africa. A recent publication by the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) artesunate-amodiaquine (As-Aq) Study Group in BMC Medicine...
News article 10 Jun 2015 Professor Russell Stothard presents at schistosomiasis symposium LSTM’s Professor Russell Stothard has been invited to present at a one day mini-symposium at Leiden University Medical Center in the...
News article 10 Jun 2015 Seminar Series report: Glycan-Based vaccine and biomarkers for Chagas disease LSTM’s Seminar Series continued with a talk by Professor Igor C. Almeida, Director of the Biomolecule Analysis Core Facility and part of the...
News article 8 Jun 2015 Surviving Far East Captivity and the Aftermath: 70 Years on Following the recent launch of the book Captive Memories, based around LSTM’s longest running, scientific, medical and historical collaboration,...
News article 3 Jun 2015 University of Oxford Professor Kevin Marsh 100th recipient of LSTM’s Mary Kingsley Medal LSTM is delighted to announce that the 100th recipient of the Mary Kingsley medal, which has been awarded since 1903 for outstanding...
News article 2 Jun 2015 LSTM welcomes visitors from North Queensland LSTM has played host to a delegation from North Queensland in Australia today, who are in Merseyside as guests of Liverpool Health Partners (LHP)....
News article 2 Jun 2015 Looking forward a decade on: The future of tackling Neglected Tropical Diseases A PDF of the paper: Looking forward a decade on: The future of tackling Neglected Tropical Diseases  by David Molyneux, Emeritus...
News article 29 May 2015 Launch of the new book Captive Memories at the Liverpool Medical Institution LSTM’s Honorary Research Fellow Meg Parkes and Emeritus Professor Geoff Gill launched their new book Captive Memories at the Liverpool Medical...
News article 29 May 2015 Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group have updated an independent review to evaluate the effects of Directly Observed Therapy (DOT...
News article 29 May 2015 Seminar Series report: Operationalization of insecticide resistance monitoring in disease vectors in the Republic of the Philippines LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Ferdinand V. Salazar, Head of Dept. of Medical Entomology, Research Institute for...

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