Everything you wanted to know (and more) ….about constructing a search strategy will be explained, including :
Searching databases and using operators such as…
This year’s World Malaria Day coincides with the World Health Organisation’s 70th anniversary. To mark the day the library has produced a display of books on Malaria in the Reading Room. Additional materials on the disease can be found at the LF shelfmark. Both electronic and print…
He is perhaps most widely known fo r his observations and discoveries during a cholera outbreak in Soho, London…
The reports series collection contains some very useful items, especially if you are looking for historical, geographical, statistical / epidemiological information.
Reports series are typically health statistics and census data produced by governmental and non-governmental organizations on a regular basis – e.g. weekly, monthly, annually, every 10 years. The name…
This blog post provides a brief overview of a workshop organised for the London Area Research Data (LARD) group on the implications of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for research data management. The event was held at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on November 17, 2017. It was organised by Gareth Knight (LSHTM), in conjunction with Helen Porter (SOAS) and Laurence Horton (LSE). A second write-up of the session has been produced by Laurence Horton. Read more
There are a number of works on rural health in our collections, including general works from dating the late 19th century when the public health movement gathered momentum.
The examples I have chosen below are on the open shelves in the gallery. Please ask library staff for directions if…
Students from the History & Health MSc module have often suggested that we put Sir Ronald Ross’s collection of malarial slides under the microscope. This collection, dating from the 1890s, in its beautiful wooden box, is one of my favourite items in the archive, so I have to…
Lunchtime sessions: Literature Searching
November 25, 2019
LSHTM and the First World War
November 11, 2019
Updates to MeSH terms for 2020
October 15, 2019
World Mental Health Day 2019
October 9, 2019
Origins of LSHTM on our 120th birthday
October 2, 2019
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