Are you attending the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver in November? Below you can find the details of when you can see sessions lead by those at LSHTM, as well as the activity of the RESYST consortium. … Continue reading
By Dana Greeson (Columbia University) and Karen Grépin (Wilfrid Laurier University) The success of health initiatives depends on how they are accepted by target communities. Do community members perceive the initiative as addressing a priority issue? Is the intervention culturally … Continue reading
Lurking in the bowels of the School, hidden to all but library and archives staff, is this place. The Basement. What lies behind this cage? What fiendish creatures fester beyond the wire? These monsters! PhD Theses published in the years … Continue reading
Laura Rodrigues is interviewed by Brazilian news network Globo (Portuguese language) on the launch of three consortia funded through the Horizon 2020 programme that will address knowledge gaps in the Zika virus. Laura’s comments also appear in G1 Globo, O … Continue reading
Our collection of the month is that of Dr John William Scott Macfie (1879-1948), a Medical Officer with the Colonial Office who embarked on 8 tours of West Africa between 1910 and 1922. It was also during this time Macfie … Continue reading
MSc in Medical Statistics alumnus (2002), Arul Earnest has announced the release of his new book entitled Essentials of a Successful Biostatistical Collaboration, published by CRC Press, which aims to equip biostatisticians and other quantitative scientists with the necessary skills, … Continue reading
Now in its ninth year, Open Access Week celebrates progress and promotes awareness to help make Open Access the norm in scholarship and research. As part of the week’s activities we are sharing some info-graphics we’ve produced in the Library covering … Continue reading
Now in its ninth year, Open Access Week celebrates progress and promotes awareness to help make Open Access the norm in scholarship and research. As part of the week’s activities we are sharing some info-graphics we’ve produced in the Library covering … Continue reading
Research Councils UK (RCUK) has recently announced the amounts that it will be paying to institutions in the block grant to support the implementation of its open access policy. This policy states that any research article or conference proceeding that is published … Continue reading
Dr John Payne Woodall, PhD (LSHTM) and co-founder of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) has passed away age 81. Dr Woodall, known to friends and colleagues as Jack, was educated at Bedford School and Clare College Cambridge, and … Continue reading