Monthly Archives: August 2014

Work Experience in the LSHTM Archives: HIV/AIDS Cataloguing Project

Author: Megan McGill  Megan has been on a work placement in the archives   The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection contains over seven-hundred descriptions of posters relating to AIDS/HIV from around Europe, … Continue reading

Ross’s War – death of Second Lieutenant Ronald Campbell Ross

Sir Ronald Ross and his wife, Rosa, had four children, the eldest Ronald Campbell was killed at the start of the war in the retreat from Mons. Ross writes about his son’s death in his Memoirs which were published in 1923. … Continue reading

Under new leadership: making the most of India’s private health care system

by Arjun Vasan and Gina Lagomarsino, Results for Development Institute Just over three months ago, Mr. Narendra Modi was inaugurated as the 14th Prime Minister of India after his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), resoundingly defeated the ruling Congress … Continue reading

PUBLICATION: E-cigarretes – threat or opportunity?

The European Journal for Public Health has just published this collaborative editorial by Greg Hartwell (SPHR@L Affiliaite) and Anna Gilmore (University of Bath) illustrating the divisions in the public health community over e-cigarettes. Read the full article here: E-cigarettes: threat or opportunity?

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Ebola research articles freely available in Science

Science and Science Translational Medicine have made all current and past content research articles concerning the Ebola virus freely accessible to all at http://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/ebola/. In their web statement AAAS state: “Given the current outbreak, unprecedented in terms of the number of … Continue reading

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Hurry! Journal Consultation 2014 closes 31st August

The Journal Consultation closes on 31st August 2014, and we want to hear from you whilst there’s still time. There are 3 different questionnaires, one for each Faculty: EPH: https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/eph ITD: https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/itd PHP: https://www.survey.lshtm.ac.uk/php The questionnaire should only take you … Continue reading

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SEMINAR: Shifting the Gravity of Spending?’ Exploring methods for supporting public health commissioners in priority-setting to improve population health and address health inequalities

SPHR@L Seminar Series NIHR School for Public Health Research @ LSHTM ”Shifting the Gravity of Spending?’ Exploring methods for supporting public health commissioners in priority-setting to improve population health and address health inequalities’ Speaker: Silvia Scalabrini (Durham University) Read the … Continue reading

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