Ebola media coverage: Honorary lecturer at the School, Geraldine O’Hara, speaks to The Guardian about her experience working with Médecins Sans Frontières on the Ebola response in Sierra Leone: “One of the first people I looked after was a young … Continue reading
By Svea Closser, Middlebury College In the last two years, more than 60 people have been murdered delivering polio vaccine door-to-door to children in Pakistan. These workers are part of a global effort to eradicate polio; they’re working to create … Continue reading
I do enjoy baking at this time of year (the ginger biscuits I baked for the Library & Archives team disappeared pretty quickly) so I might take my inspiration from some of the Christmas recipes in our Nutrition collection: … Continue reading
Professor Clement Anyiwo* MD, MSc Medical Microbiology 1977, is a Nigerian-American and Founder / President (CEO) of the Jerry and Joe Divine Foundation based in the United States of America. “The Masters degree from a world-renowned institution as London School … Continue reading
Click here to view the entire CEHC newsletter #1 or read it below. Welcome to our first newsletter! We are now approaching the six-month mark in the timeframe of the Consortium, and the team has been working hard with our … Continue reading
Judith Lloyd-Jones In 1983 Michael Callen and Robert Berkowitz wrote the ground breaking pamphlet ‘How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach’. It came at a time when American was gripped with panic of the new, little understood, acquired … Continue reading
Congratulations to London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine alumnus Tessa Jean-Pierre for her role in organising Haiti’s first AIDS walk held earlier this month in Port au Prince for World AIDS Day. Coordinated by Caris Foundation International, the walk … Continue reading
Ebola media coverage: Peter Piot speaks to Time magazine about his experience co-discovering the Ebola virus, after the magazine include him amongst their People of the Year – ‘The Ebola Fighters’: “We had no clue this was so dangerous. What … Continue reading
The Internet Archive have started to publish high resolution scans of the School’s 19th century books and pamphlets on their site. The files can be downloaded and viewed in a variety of file types including PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Maybe … Continue reading
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is launching its first free online course with the help of its partners FutureLearn. This two-week free interdisciplinary course looks at the science behind the Ebola outbreak, to understand why it has … Continue reading