The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in Keppel Street, Bloomsbury was opened in 1929. The balconies on the first floor of the building, outside the Library, are decorated with a frieze of sculptures of ten animals – seven insects, a tick, a snake and a rat – responsible…
Since 2001, the Mental Health Foundation has been leading Mental Health Awareness Week – bringing the UK together to focus on getting good mental health. Mental Health Awareness Week is an annual event where the whole of the UK comes together to focus on achieving good mental health. The week aims…
By Yiyun Chen
Yiyun Chen, UCL Placement Student standing in the Library next to the bust of Richard Doll
Over the past two weeks, I was happy to join the library team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) for a short placement. This experience has been…
According to the World Health Organization (https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-immunization-week/2025), immunization accounts for 40% of the improvement in infant survival over the last 50 years. The slogan for this year’s campaign is “Immunization for all is Humanly Possible”
Despite major achievements such as the…
Open Alex (the name Alex comes from the ancient Library of Alexandria) is a not for profit tool used to open up research for all. It is a free to use dataset containing over 250 million scholarly works. Unlike subscription databases it contains works from all over the globe, not…
Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures
“World Health Day, celebrated on 7 April 2025, will kick off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health. The campaign, titled Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures, will urge governments and the health community to ramp up efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and…
Monday March 24th 2025 is World Tuberculosis Day. The theme for World TB Day 2025 is “Yes! We Can End TB”, reinforcing the idea that ending tuberculosis is possible with collective effort.
The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch discovered the Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacterium, which causes…
A photo of the class of 1925
This March, fasting and food awareness is an incredibly important part of many peoples every day. With Ramadan well underway, and Lent just beginning, a large portion of the population will for the next few weeks be far more observational over their eating than usual. Alongside religious fasting, many of…
(and information about what is happening within the STEM information landscape)
With the transition to the new government in the United States, we are seeing some major changes in the US federal information landscape.
This blog post aims to bring together information for LSHTM staff and students on alternative sources…
