Jasmine Burton, MSc Public Health alumna (2017) and Founder of Wish for WASH, talked to us about how she has developed innovative design solutions for global health equity through her social impact organisation Wish for WASH, and how her experience at Wish for WASH motivated her to study an MSc…
Alumnus Professor Sir Alimuddin (Ali) Zumla, GCDS, FRCP (Lond&Edin), FRCPath (UK), PhD (Lond), FRSB (UK), has been honoured with a Knighthood (KBE) by Her Majesty The Queen in her 2017 Birthday Honours List for his exceptional services to public health and infectious diseases.
Sir Ali is a global…
MSc Immunology of Infectious Diseases alumnus (1992) and Honorary Fellow, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus visited the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on 10 July, on his first visit to the UK since taking up the role as Director-General of the World Health Organization. As part of his…
Global HIV leaders have committed to ensuring young people affected by HIV/AIDS play an integral part in shaping new research and policies to strengthen HIV prevention, testing and treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. The agreement was made during a special roundtable organised by the London School of Hygiene &…
This month we spoke to MSc Public Health in Developing Countries (now called Public Health for Development) alumna, Claire Gwayi-Chore. Claire studied at the School from 2015-2016 and is currently working as an Implementation Science Research Consultant at the University of Washington School of Public Health, Global Health…
Written by PhD student Prince Antwi-Agyei for the SHARE Consortium.
Have you ever wondered why people continue to use wastewater for vegetable farming and other purposes?
Wastewater can pose health risks to consumers and farmers of irrigated produce, such as diarrhoeal diseases and helminth infections. While we know there…
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…
Facilitating challenging conversations and action to raise awareness and create change on global inequality issues.
The Inequality Question is a unique project to debate global inequality issues. On the last Thursday of each month – #ThoughtfulThursday – children formerly or currently living on the streets of Uganda choose one inequality question to…
At the end of 2015, MSc Public Health (2013) alumna, Dr Shalmali Radha Karnad single-handedly coordinated a county wide cervical cancer screening treatment camp for nurse midwives to try and address the problems of late diagnosis/under-screening of cervical cancer in Kenya. In this week’s alumni report…
Alumnus Prof. David Dance: Winner of the Cross of Labour medal
April 8, 2019
Obituary: Dr Elizabeth “Lizzie” Millett
March 27, 2019
Alumna Marie-Laure Frelut: New Deputy Chair of the Clinical Committee of the World Federation of Obesity
March 21, 2019
Amira Shaheen: Winner of the 2019 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards (one of five winners)
March 12, 2019
30 years alumna – Dr Isabella Danel
March 8, 2019
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