To celebrate Valentine’s Day, we are focussing on our most romantic item in the collection – the Carpenter diary. This is a joint diary between a married couple, Geoffrey and Amy Carpenter, who lived and worked in Uganda in … Continue reading
Mark (the librarian) looked up from a pile of pamphlets on nutrition and water supply and mused “why are these ‘bex-ee’ (BEXY) and ‘sez-ee’ (SEZY)?” As a young twenty something with (mostly) one thing on his mind he was no … Continue reading
Image caption: Push down and turn by mag3737. License: some rights reserved CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 LSHTM Research Online kicked started the New Year with another month of high downloads. In January nearly 17, 000 full text papers were downloaded from … Continue reading
This blog post was originally published in International Health Policies By Xiaoyun Liu The lack of coherence between health policies and human resource (HR) strategy is one of the major causes for the failure to meet health goals, such as … Continue reading
To support World Cancer Day, we thought that we would highlight some of the collections in the Archives that relate to Cancer. Although this was not a core topic that was researched in the early years of the School, there … Continue reading
One day last week, for a bit of light relief from staring at my computer screen, I decided to browse through some of the volumes from the Library’s Report Series Collection. I was flicking through some pages of the ‘Report on the Work of … Continue reading
‘If you destroy a neighbourhood, you need a strategy to support those who rely on it most’ Matt Egan argues that wholesale demolition can have surprisingly low impact on health, but may damage some communities if planners lack sensitivity to … Continue reading
Out shopping on a Saturday afternoon, I came across the Change4Life road show. This lively exhibition offered passers by the opportunity to take part in interactive games, such as a virtual supermarket sweep, designed to encourage people to make … Continue reading