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News article 26 May 2015 Genomic data reveals emergence in Africa of drug resistant strain of typhoid Scientists at the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in partnership with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, have...
News article 22 May 2015 Captive Memories Book launch Captive Memories, a new book by LSTM’s Honorary Fellow Meg Parkes and Emeritus Professor Geoff Gill, will launch next week at an event at the...
News article 21 May 2015 Serious Gaming Workshop The LSTM Serious Gaming team has concluded a two day workshop, to explore the value of integrating mathematical models for malaria control within a...
News article 19 May 2015 Liverpool to host the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health ACC Liverpool in Liverpool, UK has been chosen to host the 47th Union World Conference on Lung Health in 2016.The event is the premier...
News article 19 May 2015 Obituary: Professor Bill Macdonald Professor Bill Macdonald, Previous Dean of LSTM was buried yesterday, following his death at the end of April. Born in Glasgow 1927, his...
News article 13 May 2015 Seminar Series report: Ending Preventable Maternal & Newborn Deaths LSTM’s Seminar Series continued last week with a presentation by Dr Elizabeth Mason, former Director of Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent...
News article 12 May 2015 New Cochrane Review assessing the effects of tafenoquine in people with Plasmodium vivax infection Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, hosted at LSTM, have conducted an independent review to assess the effects of tafenoquine in...
News article 8 May 2015 Scientists at LSTM examine the links between HAP and lung infection Scientists at LSTM have come a step closer to understanding why people exposed to household air pollution (HAP) are at higher risk of lung infections...
News article 7 May 2015 CMNH wins BMJ award LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health’s Emergency (Essential) Obstetric Training has been declared the winner in the Women’s Health...
News article 7 May 2015 Appointment of Professor Shabbar Jaffar LSTM has announced the appointment of Professor Shabbar Jaffar as Head of the Department of International Public Health from 1st July 2015. 
News article 1 May 2015 Evidence Synthesis for Global Health: programme of training Professor Sandy Oliver, Professor of Public Policy at University College London, and specialist in research synthesis, ran a workshop for staff this...
Courtesy of Gates Foundation: Water Gathering: A Major Mode of Acquisition & Transmission of Neglected Tropical Diseases News article 30 Apr 2015 David Molyneux at the G7 Dialogue Forum LSTM’s Emeritus Professor David Molyneux was a keynote speaker at the G7 Dialogue Forum – Science Conference this week ahead of the meeting of the G7...
News article 28 Apr 2015 Seminar Series Report: Development of Adhiron artificial binding proteins LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Professor Michael McPherson, Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of...
News article 28 Apr 2015 LSTM students take all awards at BSP conference LSTM students swept the board for awards at the recent British Society for Parasitology’s (BSP) 53rd annual spring conference, held in Liverpool...
News article 24 Apr 2015 World Malaria Day 2015 Saturday 25th April is World Malaria Day and it provides an opportunity to celebrate the progress that is being made at LSTM to fight the...
News article 23 Apr 2015 Laing O’Rourke donation supports malaria research at LSTM Leading international engineering enterprise, Laing O’Rourke, have pledged £1,000 for the purchase of an imaging system to help LSTM carry out their...
News article 20 Apr 2015 LSTM's Centre for Maternal & Newborn Health are cycling to Sierra Leone! LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) has begun their mammoth 4,247 mile cycling challenge to raise funds for urgently needed medical...
News article 17 Apr 2015 British Society for Parasitology’s (BSP) 53rd annual spring conference This week has seen approximately 400 parasitologists gather at the British Society for Parasitology’s (BSP) 53rd annual spring conference, which...
News article 16 Apr 2015 The 2015 LSTM Leverhulme Lecture Dr Anarfi Asamoa-Baah, Deputy Director General of the World Health Organization, (WHO), delivered the prestigious LSTM Leverhulme Lecture at the...
News article 15 Apr 2015 Addressing the Chronic pandemic of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD), the first decade and onwards LSTM launched its extended Neglected Tropical Diseases programme today at an event entitled: “Addressing the Chronic pandemic of Neglected Tropical...
News article 9 Apr 2015 Postcard from Guinea “Today’s discharge of patients shows that Ebola is not always fatal. Good, early supportive care such as hydration, nutrition and appropriate...
News article 1 Apr 2015 LSTM Graduate Mohammed Yassin becomes Senior TB Advisor for the Global Fund LSTM graduate and former research fellow Mohammed Yassin is Senior TB Advisor for the Global Fund, a position fitting with his long term goal of...
News article 30 Mar 2015 Seminar Series Report: Rising health needs, catastrophic expenditure and poverty challenges and solutions for universal health coverage in Bangladesh. LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a presentation by Dr Jahangir AM Khan, a senior lecturer in health economics at LSTM and an...
News article 26 Mar 2015 Special Ebola seminar during DTM&H course LSTM’s Dr Tim O’Dempsey made a reappearance at LSTM this week speaking at a seminar about viral haemorrhagic fevers with an emphasis on Ebola. The...
News article 25 Mar 2015 Special Ebola seminar during DTM&H course LSTM’s Dr Tim O’Dempsey made a reappearance at LSTM this week speaking at a seminar about viral haemorrhagic fevers with an emphasis on Ebola.
News article 24 Mar 2015 World TB Day 2015 Tuesday 24 March is World TB Day, organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and dedicated to raising awareness and generating action to combat...
News article 23 Mar 2015 World TB Day World TB Day, 24 March 2009, is a day to celebrate the lives of the women, men and children affected by TB, and to acknowledge the work of doctors,...
News article 18 Mar 2015 25th Anniversary of the Ken Newell Memorial Bursary Fund 18 March 2015 marks 25 years since the death of Kenneth Wyatt Newell, Middlemass Hunt Professor of Tropical Community Health and former Head of the...
News article 17 Mar 2015 CMNH skills lab inauguration in India India’s Health Minister, J.P. Nadda, has officially opened the Skills Lab, a collaboration with LSTM, at the National Institute of Health and Family...
News article 16 Mar 2015 Meeting review of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Confidence in Concept (CiC) Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium Today saw the meeting of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Confidence in Concept (CiC) Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium, which is a...
News article 13 Mar 2015 Seminar Series Report. Salt-intake and salt-reduction initiatives in sub-Saharan Africa LSTM’s seminar series continued this week with a talk by Dr Oyinlola Oyebode, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. Her talk, entitled:...
News article 12 Mar 2015 RCOG award for CMNH's Dr Mary McCauley Dr Mary McCauley of the Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, has recently been presented a Global Health Globe from the Royal College of...
News article 12 Mar 2015 The Disease Data Management System video LSTM, together with its partners in the development of The Disease Data Management System, the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC) and...
News article 12 Mar 2015 The COUNTDOWN consortium holds official launch meeting at LSTM The COUNTDOWN research consortium, which is calling time on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) has just held its official launch meeting....
News article 11 Mar 2015 Cochrane Review of effectiveness of point of care diagnostics for schistosomiasis Researchers from the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group, hosted at LSTM, have conducted an independent review to assess how well point of care...
News article 10 Mar 2015 UN Secretary General Appoints LSTM Trustee to key role LSTM Trustee, Stephen O’Brien MP has been appointed as Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the...
News article 10 Mar 2015 Seminar Series Report. Food for Thought: Childhood nutrition in low-income countries LSTM’s Seminar Series continued last week with a presentation entitled: Food for Thought: Childhood nutrition in low-income countries. It was...
News article 6 Mar 2015 LSTM and University of Nottingham research into hospital safety and efficiency UK hospitals are under great clinical pressure from the increasing number and complexity of admissions. As resources are limited, there is a pressing...
News article 6 Mar 2015 MLW launches Samala Moyo exhibition project Last week the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW) launched its exhibition project called ‘Samala Moyo’ which...
News article 6 Mar 2015 LSTM celebrates International Women’s Day International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on Sunday 8thMarch and this year the theme is “Make it Happen” to ensure effective action for...

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