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News article 5 Mar 2015 LSTM joins more than 90 partners in calling on the G7 to tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases LSTM director, Professor Janet Hemingway, as well as Professors David Molyneux and Moses Bockarie have co-signed an Open Letter to the G7...
News article 4 Mar 2015 New videos released demonstrating the benefits of LQAS surveys Researchers from LSTM have produced a suite of videos explaining the benefits of using Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) surveys in...
News article 4 Mar 2015 Research at LSTM leads to quick and inexpensive tests for indoor residual spraying Quality assurance for indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaigns has been a major challenge for vector control programmes in India.
News article 27 Feb 2015 T-REC holds final meeting in South Africa International blood transfusion consortium T-REC has been holding its final meeting and workshop in South Africa this week.
News article 27 Feb 2015 T-REC holds final meeting in South Africa International blood transfusion consortium T-REC has been holding its final meeting and workshop in South Africa this week.
News article 24 Feb 2015 CMNH shortlisted for a BMJ award The Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health’s Emergency (Essential) Obstetric Training has been shortlisted in the Women’s Health Category of the 2015...
News article 24 Feb 2015 All Party Parliamentary Group on Malaria and NTD Launch LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, has been among experts asked to comment at the launch of the2015 Neglected Tropical Diseases Report for...
News article 20 Feb 2015 LSTM students take awards at the Royal Entomological Society's postgraduate forum LSTM PhD student Josie Parker was awarded the student-voted best talk at 2015’s Royal Entomological Society’s Post Graduate Forum, held this week at...
News article 19 Feb 2015 LSTM Director invited to give remarks on WHO’s third annual report on NTDs LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway, is part of a panel of experts that have been invited to comment on the World Health Organization’s (WHO)...
News article 19 Feb 2015 Seminar series report: Evidence Synthesis for Global Health LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from LSTM’s Professor Paul Garner, Co-ordinating Editor of the Cochrane Infectious...
News article 18 Feb 2015 A glowing report for CMNH from Women and Children First. The Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health has recently completed the final evaluation for the Comic Relief funded project ‘Improving the health...
News article 13 Feb 2015 Seminar Series Report: Scaling up the identification of gene functions in Plasmodium LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from Dr Oliver Billker and Dr Julian Rayner of the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute. Their...
News article 13 Feb 2015 LSTM contributes to the drive for research impact LSTM has been actively engaged in this week’s #RESUPMEETUP in Nairobi, Kenya. The aim of the meeting was to bring people together working on research...
News article 10 Feb 2015 Top marks from DFID for the ‘Making it Happen’ programme. LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) has, for the second year running, received top marks from the Department for International...
News article 9 Feb 2015 Tweet chat on health workers in fragile and conflict affected states Generating over 200 unique Tweets in just over an hour, the recent Twitter chat on health systems in fragile and conflict affected states was a...
News article 6 Feb 2015 MSc Poster Day 2015 Masters in Parasite Epidemiology and Control student Rachel Hopper has won ‘Best Poster’ at the MSc poster day on Friday, with Ben Rogerson as the...
News article 4 Feb 2015 LSTM finds previous exposure to sandfly bites in SA affects the severity of Leishmaniasis Researchers at LSTM have found that those people who have been exposed to the bite of the sandfly on numerous occasions are more likely to have a...
News article 3 Feb 2015 COUNTDOWN Consortium launches blog Cross Talk Cross Talk is a blog which has been set up by the COUNTDOWN Consortium, a research partnership which is focussed on Neglected Tropical...
News article 29 Jan 2015 LSTM launches LQAS Toolkit Researchers from LSTM have worked in collaboration with UNICEF to develop tools to support the planning, implementation and analysis of Lot Quality...
News article 23 Jan 2015 Seminar Series Report: sexual and reproductive health in an Ebola setting LSTM’s Seminar Series continued this week with a talk from Dr Benjamin Black, an obstetrics and gynaecology registrar working for Medecins San...
News article 22 Jan 2015 Professor Hemingway receives honorary degree from University of Warwick LSTM’s Director, Professor Janet Hemingway CBE is among three eminent UK scientists being honoured by the University of Warwick today as she is...
News article 22 Jan 2015 Well Travelled Clinic moves to the Wolfson Building The Well Travelled Clinic (WTC) has become the first occupant of LSTM’s new Wolfson Building.
News article 22 Jan 2015 Annual Bill and Melinda Gates Letter targets the end of four NTDs Today’s publication of Bill and Melinda Gates’ Annual Letter includes a call to the international development community to end four...
News article 21 Jan 2015 Professor Stephen Gordon appointed director of the MLW Programme LSTM’s Professor Stephen Gordon has been appointed as the next Director of the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research...
News article 16 Jan 2015 Bring Your Own Device 4 Learning week at LSTM LSTM is one of 12 UK Higher Education Institutions (HEI) taking part in the January edition of the Bring Your Own Device for Learning (BYOD4L) event...
News article 16 Jan 2015 House of Lords debates Maternal and Neonatal Mortality The UK House of Lords debated UK’s role in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in the developing world following a question from Baroness Hayman.
News article 15 Jan 2015 LSTM professor honoured by American Thoracic Society LSTM’s Professor Stephen Gordon has been honoured by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) as he becomes the recipient of this year’s World...
News article 14 Jan 2015 Latest Cochrane Review: Intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment for children with anaemia Researchers from Tanzania and South Africa, who are part of the Cochrane Infectious Disease Group, hosted at LSTM, have conducted an independent...
News article 13 Jan 2015 CMNH training gets underway with Diploma in Reproductive Health in Developing Countries Training has got underway at LSTM’s Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health (CMNH) this week with the start of the new three month ...
News article 9 Jan 2015 Life-saving anti-venom research at LSTM Scientists from LSTM have been featured on the BBC website today about research to find a universal anti-venom for all of the deadly snakes...
News article 7 Jan 2015 Step forward in the fight against malaria Scientists from LSTM’s Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics (RCDD) have, along with colleagues at the University of Liverpool (UoL),...
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News article 18 Dec 2014 REF2014: LSTM enters overall rankings placed 24th out of 128 LSTM scores exceptionally well on ‘impact’ placed 6th out of 128Liverpool, 18 December 2014 – Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is...
News article 16 Dec 2014 Patron HRH Princess Royal officially opens LSTM's latest estates expansion Opening of multi-disciplinary Wolfson Building enables LSTM to tackle some of the most challenging health problems in the world todayToday saw the...
News article 15 Dec 2014 COUNTDOWN Research Consortium calls ‘time’ on Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Programme examines how NTD programmes can be better integrated into health system responses.The COUNTDOWN research consortium has been launched today...
News article 15 Dec 2014 Ebola clinical update 15 Dec 2014 LSTM staff and recent graduates of the School courses, such as DTMH, continue to contribute to direct care of patients with Ebola in West Africa....
News article 12 Dec 2014 Seminar Series Report. Systems Vaccinology: Its promise and challenge for vaccine design LSTM’s Seminar Series Continued this week with a talk by Dr Helder Nakaya, Assistant Professor at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Adjunct...
News article 12 Dec 2014 LSTM graduates take clean sweep at awards ceremony. Recent graduates of LSTM have made a clean sweep of the Poster Presentation awards at this year’s winter conference of the Royal Society of Tropical...
News article 5 Dec 2014 LSTM doctor wins British Lung Foundation Award This week has seen further success for respiratory research at LSTM, with Dr Andrea Collins receiving the British Lung Foundation Early...
News article 3 Dec 2014 LSTM Graduation 2014 LSTM’s class of 2014 graduated this afternoon at Liverpool’s Cathedral of Christ the King. The graduating class of 80 MSc students, along with a...

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