Twenty-five years ago, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and collaborators helped the Ghanaian Ministry of Health found the Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC) in northern Ghana. The Centre currently employs over 200 staff, and is still conducting ground-breaking … Continue reading
For the first time, researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have studied the Black Death bacterium’s entire family tree to fully understand how some of the family members evolve to become harmful. Contrary to popular belief, … Continue reading
To mark World Malaria Day, here is a short blog about the history of malaria in the UK and the work of John Frederick Marshall (1874-1949), parasitologist, whom devoted much of his life in studying and controlling mosquitoes in … Continue reading
I am currently studying the MSc Global Health Policy by distance learning. As part of the programme, we are offered the opportunity to study up to two modules at the School in London…” For me as an MSc distance learner … Continue reading
David Heymann is interviewed by CNN on the latest Ebola outbreak. David Heymann also discusses new cases of MERS in Saudi Arabia for Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Business Week: “Whenever there’s an emerging infection from the animal kingdom into humans, … Continue reading
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine alumnus and successful photographer, Matilda Temperley is attempting to produce a beautiful hardback, cloth bound, black and white photographic book to document the devastating Somerset floods of 2014. Click here to read more about … Continue reading
Marieke Heijnen, a PHD student and research assistant within the Environmental Health Group, has recently collaborated on a systematic review which looks at the health outcomes of shared sanitation use. The piece which was published in PLOSone, brings together the limited available … Continue reading
Post submitted by Dr Phil Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Statistics and lead investigator of the LANTERNS project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In the current economic climate many local authorities are facing reduced budgets and difficult decisions … Continue reading
Urbanisation – the process by which cities grow and change – is happening at quick rates in many low and middle income countries. Such rapid development is associated with sociocultural, political and public health changes, amongst others. India is particularly … Continue reading
Some people get very exercised by accession numbers – the unique identifiers associated with genes and proteins. When publishing results in a paper it’s accepted, and indeed rightly mandated by scientific publishers, that all associated accession numbers should be declared, … Continue reading