Take our Global Blindness: Planning and Managing Eye Care Services course! If you are located in one of the ODA countries, you will qualify for a free upgrade. You can register TODAY – Course begins: 30 October 2017 The link … Continue reading
By Ninha Silva, MARCH Centre Blog Editor (MSc Public Health Candidate) Meaningful and durable change. This is what MacArthur’s Foundation is asking in return for a single $100 million dollars grant awarded to the organisation that can prove to have the … Continue reading
From the 30 Oct – 5 November there will be a Bibliotherapy display in the Library’s Reading Room, under the watchful eyes of Sir Richard Doll. Bibliotherapy is an expressive therapy which uses reading to support good mental health. From time … Continue reading
To showcase the wide array of Open Access books freely available online, and in the spirit of International Open Access Week, LSHTM’s team in the Library have put together, in true Waterstone’s style, a shelf each of their favourite selections … Continue reading
Sounds like a normal day at the pub perhaps, but this was meeting at the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Science at LSE which crossed boundaries and created a space for some unique impactful collaboration. How? This unusual, intentionally small, … Continue reading
LSHTM authors are increasingly choosing to publish their work open access. Looking at the open access profile of the School’s publications, almost 40% of research articles are published in fully open access journals, with the percentage of open access articles … Continue reading
Books for orientation In a previous blog* I extolled the virtues of walking in London. Here are a couple of books to set local walks in an historical public health and tropical medicine context. Black, Nick. Walking London’s medical … Continue reading
A new study led by Steven Cummins which found that a levy of 10p per drink to the price of sugar-sweetened beverages sold in Jamie’s Italian UK restaurants is likely to have contributed to a significant decline in sales, is … Continue reading
As reported previously, Martin Gorsky and John Manton have recently been hosted by the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, where they gave lectures on the history of health planning in WHO, and research methods in the history of medicine, respectively. The French … Continue reading
Travis Bias, DO, MPH, Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Health (DTMH) alumnus and family medical doctor, has spent a large amount of his medical career in East Africa – Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, where he has had the opportunity to … Continue reading