Monthly Archives: October 2014

Instruction to Students in the Use of the Library from 1947

In 1947, the then Librarian, Cyril C. Barnard, wrote a history of the School’s Library. In it, he included a section on the information skills training offered to students over the years. As you can see from the transcript below, … Continue reading

Rapid, real-time feedback from evaluation, as well as programme flexibility, is vital to health service improvement

By Tom Woodcock   We should learn from Melanesian Islanders that feedback provides the deep understanding of interventions which is key to wide-scale, successful roll-out, says Tom Woodcock Osmar White, the Australian war correspondent, told an amazing story about how, … Continue reading

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Explaining Altmetrics at LSHTM

Fresh Martian Impact Crater by Stuart Rankin (CC-BY) https://flic.kr/p/ptSdih As users of the School’s Publications Database and LSHTM Research Online may have noticed the Altmetrics plug-in which records social media mentions of research by our academic staff. It’s an impressive … Continue reading

Divided we fall: how community organisation is key to beating HIV/AIDS

By Solenn Honorine, Médecins Sans Frontières HIV still kills 1.6 million people every year, most of them in the poor countries of sub-Saharan Africa. In order to bring life-saving antiretroviral therapy (ART) to the 16 million who still need it … Continue reading

New Exhibition at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, ‘HIV/AIDS: Controlling and eradicating a modern epidemic’

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the new exhibition on the subject of HIV/AIDS has now been installed in the Keppel Street Foyer at the School. The exhibition, ‘HIV/AIDS: Controlling and eradicating a modern epidemic’ explores the history of … Continue reading

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ANNOUNCEMENT: 2nd evaluation workshop for local government practitioners!

SPHR@L is excited to announce a second ‘Evaluation Workshop’ aimed at local government practitioners! We are particularly interested in engaging with those working in housing, transport, and planning etc to be better equipped to design evaluations. Date & time: Monday … Continue reading

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Let’s be honest that pilots are not just about testing: they’re also about engineering the politics of change

By Stefanie Ettelt There is more to policy piloting than evaluation – piloting is a policy tool in itself, not only a means for conducting research, says Stefanie Ettelt   Pilot evaluation tends to frustrate and disappoint some or all of … Continue reading

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