Public Health Consultant and Author, Elizabeth Pisani told us about how she stumbled upon a career in epidemiology.
“I never actually intended to come to the School. I had been working as a journalist in India, Indonesia and China, and I got very interested in the interaction between politics and…
Diploma in Health Planning, Policy and Finance (HPPF) alumna (1995) Elizabeth Sheehan founded Care 2 Communities (C2C) in 2008. At the time, having worked as a physician’s assistant in the developing world for more than 10 years, she saw women and children dying, and families falling apart, simply because…
MSc Public Health alumna, Candela Iglesias Chiesa is a researcher and advisor in Global Health and Social Development. Candela told us shared how her decision to pursue a career in Public Health led her to eventually start her own consultancy, CI Consulting two years ago.
After completing my PhD work…
For this week’s alumni profile, we spoke to MSc Social Medicine alumnus, Dr Franklin White. Dr White, a medical graduate (1969) from McGill University, Montreal, chose to study at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine after completing an internship and a year of public health training in…
Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (DTMH) alumna (2010), Veronica Sawicki is a GP for the NHS in Gloucestershire and the co-founder of the charity Help Madina. Prior to forming Help Madina, Veronica was a GP partner for the NHS for 20 years; she resigned from the post 2…
MSc Community Medicine alumna, Elizabeth Mason is a specialist in Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and has spent a large amount of her life living and working in various countries in Africa. She worked for 13 years in Zimbabwe, initially at district level with the charity Oxfam, followed by a…
Claire Gwayi-Chore, a recent MSc Public Health for Development graduate from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine completed her summer project with the TUMIKIA project, which looks at the effectiveness of deworming over 650,000 people in Kenya. Her project was entitled: Assessing acceptance & coverage of…
Dr Wilbert Bannenberg, MSc Community Medicine in Developing Countries (1985) was in London on 8 November to participate in an event at the School. As Wilbert was going to be in town, he got in touch with the Alumni Office beforehand to arrange a visit.
Wilbert flew in to London…
In October this year all three faculties of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine participated in Science Museum Lates, an after-hours opportunity for adults interested in science to engage with leading researchers on a given theme. Public Engagement Coordinator for the School, Erin Lafferty tells us all…
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has been awarded the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) ‘University of the Year’ award for 2016 for our response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014/15.
This response involved placing more than 500 academic and professional service volunteers in…
Pablo Manrique wins 2017 British Council Social Impact Award
May 19, 2017
Elizabeth Pisani: The accidental epidemiologist
May 16, 2017
LSHTM Careers Ambassadors
May 15, 2017
Paul Mee runs 2017 London Marathon for Stephen Lawn Memorial Fund
May 3, 2017
Congratulations to Barry Cookson awarded the RCP Lifetime Achievement Award 2017
May 2, 2017
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