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News article 2 Apr 2013 LSTM in joint appointment with University of Warwick of Professor Steve Torr Steve Torr recently joined LSTM to take up a position as Professor of Neglected Tropical Diseases within the Vector Biology Department, but with...
News article 27 Mar 2013 LSTM Seminar Series: Private providers participation for maternal health care delivery: Evidence from India The latest instalment from the LSTM seminar series was presented today by Dr Parthasarathi Ganguly, MBBS, MD, M.Phil. Dr Ganguly, Additional...
News article 25 Mar 2013 LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit completes orientation workshops for new facilitators LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit has just completed two training workshops for new volunteer facilitators for their Life Saving Skills and...
News article 25 Mar 2013 LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit completes orientation workshops for new facilitators LSTM’s Maternal and Newborn Health Unit has just completed two training workshops for new volunteer facilitators for their Life Saving Skills and...
News article 22 Mar 2013 REACHOUT: New website on close-to-community providers of healthcare launched From midwives, to traditional birth attendants, to informal private practitioners, community health workers, and lay counsellors; close-to-community...
News article 20 Mar 2013 Honorary appointment for Professor Mark Woodhead Professor Mark Woodhead has been appointed as Honorary Research Fellow of the LSTM. Professor Woodhead trained in London and currently is Consultant...
News article 20 Mar 2013 LSTM holds 15th NGO Forum The 15th LSTM Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Forum will be held at LSTM on Friday 22 March 2013.
News article 14 Mar 2013 LSTM Director Professor Janet Hemingway steps down as CEO of IVCC LSTM Director Janet Hemingway is stepping down as CEO of IVCC (The Innovative Vector Control Consortium) of which LSTM is a founding partner. After...
News article 8 Mar 2013 International Women’s day - today 8th March There are lots of activities today celebrating the role and achievements of women worldwide and highlighting areas for further action. As part of the...
News article 6 Mar 2013 UK parliamentarians visit Ethiopia-LSTM TB REACH Project in Awassa, Ethiopia In the week of 18th February, a cross-party UK parliamentary delegation went to Ethiopia to explore how the country is dealing with key health...
News article 5 Mar 2013 CROI Conference 2013: LSTM presents HIV self-testing study in Malawi showing significant effect on willingness to report positive results and higher rate of ART initiation Researchers show that optional home initiation of HIV care after self-testing substantially improves linkage into HIV care.Atlanta, 5 March 2013
News article 4 Mar 2013 New Course – Introduction to Ultrasound in Low Resource Settings (20-24 May 2013) This course has been introduced following requests from many students over the last 4 years.  We have designed this course for Medical Doctors...
News article 13 Feb 2013 LSTM study leads WHO to update its malaria prevention policy An estimated 32 million women who become pregnant each year can benefit from preventive therapy Liverpool, 13 February 2013 – A study led...
News article 4 Feb 2013 Qatar hosts first training course for Disease Control Programmes conducted by LSTM’s Centre for Health in the Eastern Mediterranean (CHEM) A 10 day course with modules in planning, monitoring and evaluation in Disease Control Programmes was held at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) in...
News article 31 Jan 2013 Tuberculosis: WHO-Endorsed Test Offers Rapid Detection A diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) can accurately and quickly detect both TB and drug-resistant strains, according to a new study conducted by...
News article 13 Dec 2012 LSTM & Aintree University Hospital in £2.7m Funding to Save Lives of Children in Africa A research team from Liverpool has been awarded £2.7m to fund a trial that could benefit some of the most deprived communities around the world....
News article 12 Dec 2012 LSTM Annual Report 2011/2012 now available We are pleased to present the LSTM Annual Report for 2011/2012 which details news and highlights over the past year plus updates from our scientific...
News article 10 Dec 2012 Searching for an anti-HIV cream LSTM’s Dr Angela Obasi features in article on anti-HIV gel that is adding to the first line of defence against HIV.
News article 27 Nov 2012 LSTM Health in Humanitarian Settings Research Symposium - 3 December 2012 Interested in working abroad in challenging healthcare environments?Keen to learn about tropical infectious diseases?What to explore how health...
News article 22 Nov 2012 LSTM Director wins Knowledge Leader of the Year Award Professor Janet Hemingway CBE, was awarded the Paver Smith Knowledge Leader of the Year, at the inaugural Liverpool Post Leadership Awards, held in...
News article 19 Nov 2012 LSTM in new research which highlights Life Expectancy is Shorter in The Tropics New Research Highlights Life Expectancy is Shorter in The TropicsA world-wide initiative to define the challenges facing the peoples of the tropics...
News article 12 Oct 2012 Black Mamba Venom ‘Better Painkiller’ than Morphine Listen to the BBC radio interview given by Dr Rob Harrison, Head of the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit at LSTM, where he comments on the findings...
News article 11 Oct 2012 Menstrual management among schoolgirls being investigated by LSTM and partners in Kenya Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, partnered by KEMRI/CDC Research and Public Health Collaboration, Ministry of Health and NGO and aid agency...
News article 12 Sep 2012 Evaluation of LQAS classification system for control of Schistosomiasis The control of schistosomiasis calls for rapid and reliable classification tools. This study, involving LSTM, evaluates the performance of one such...
News article 2 Aug 2012 LSTM Receives £250,000 in First Awards Made Through the Biomedical Catalyst Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) in First Awards Made Through the Biomedical CatalystThe Medical Research Council (MRC) and the...
News article 24 Jul 2012 HEART chosen for DFID Health, Nutrition, and Education PEAKS It is very good news that the HEART partners, including LSTM, have been chosen to implement the DFID Health, Nutrition and Education Professional...
News article 13 Jul 2012 News alert – Updated research on the effect of deworming drugs on nutrition and school performance in children 11 July 2012An update of the Cochrane Review – ‘Deworming drugs for soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on nutritional...
News article 10 Jul 2012 LSTM expansion plans featured in the Liverpool Post STM, its work and its expansion plans are showcased in the Liverpool Post:http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2012/07/26...
News article 29 Jun 2012 LSTM welcomes Patron, HRH The Princess Royal to Annual Vice-Presidents’ Dinner LSTM Chairman, Mr James Ross OBE and Director, Professor Janet Hemingway CBE were delighted to welcome LSTM Patron, Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne...
News article 18 Jun 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honour for the Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Professor Janet Hemingway FRS, the Director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) and CEO of the Innovative Vector Control Consortium (...
News article 11 May 2012 John Dusabe's project featured in The Guardian The Guardian has featured an intervention being implemented by IntHEC, one of LSTM’s research projects. The intervention entails a platform to...
News article 25 Apr 2012 LSTM to help save lives of mothers and babies in world’s poorest countries MORE than 17,000 health workers in the world’s poorest countries will be trained to provide emergency care for millions of mothers and babies by...
News article 17 Apr 2012 Maegraith Archive deposited at LSTM Professor Brian Maegraith (1907-1989), was former Dean of LSTM (1946-1975) and shaped the direction of tropical medicine in the latter half of the...
News article 11 Apr 2012 LSTM Photo Competition 2012 The competition is to find the best photo relating to LSTM activities, ranging from field research to teaching, from lab work to consultancy, from...
News article 23 Mar 2012 World TB Day 2012 PreDiCT-TB, funded by the EU Innovative Medicines Initiative, is a public-private consortium comprising 21 partners (Euro 24.5M). Over the next five...
News article 28 Feb 2012 Professor Mark Taylor is awarded the 2012 BSP Wright Medal The British Society for Parasitology (BSP) awards an annual medal to commemorate the life of Dr Chris Wright, Natural History Museum, by formal...
Queuing in the sun News article 21 Jan 2012 UK Government pledges new support to LSTM to protect 100 million people The UK Government pledges new support to LSTM to protect 100 million people from elephantiasis and help eliminate the disease by 2020.Liverpool, 21...
News article 6 Jan 2012 LSTM invites PhD applications for 2012 entry into ESRC funded pathway in Development and Humanitarianism The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is one of three departments that form the mainstay of the interdisciplinary pathway in...
News article 15 Dec 2011 LSTM Annual Report for 2010/2011 Now Available We are pleased to present the LSTM Annual Report for 2010/2011 which details news and highlights over the past year plus updates from our scientific...
A 3D sculptural representation of two cells - a macrophage and a T cell - forming an ‘immunological synapse’. News article 15 Nov 2011 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Receives Additional Grand Challenges Explorations Funding It was announced today that LSTM will receive additional funding through Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative created by the Bill &...

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