Dame Beulah Bewley – 2 September 1929 to 20 January 2018 It is with much sadness that we announce the loss of Dame Beulah Bewley, the first woman to graduate with an MSc in Social Medicine from the London School … Continue reading →

Dr Jill Curtis – 17 January 1942 to 17 December 2017 Jill was born in Rawtenstall, Lancashire and raised in Bacup close to the West Yorkshire border. As a child she was a keen Girl Guide and loved being outdoors, taking part … Continue reading →

It is with great sadness that we share news that our colleague Dr Adrian Root, Research Fellow in Epidemiology and PhD candidate here at the School, has died of cancer. Adrian was a GP who came to the School to … Continue reading →

It is with deep sadness that I must tell you our colleague Dr Chesmal Siriwardhana, Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health, died on Sunday following a collision on Oxford Street. Chesmal joined the School in 2016, conducting research … Continue reading →

This scholarship, for students on the Masters in Public Health for Eye Care, was set up by a member of staff to honour her mother; her father continued to donate regularly to the scholarship until his death in February 2017. … Continue reading →

We learnt over the holidays of the tragic loss of Jane Macha, a former distance learning MSc Public Health student and a research collaborator on numerous projects at the Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania who passed away on Saturday 24 December … 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 →

Steve Lawn was Professor of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Honorary Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and HIV, at the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town, where he was … Continue reading →

John Lane, Chief Technician and Curator of Entomology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, has died aged 85. He worked at the School for a total of 29 years, from 1960 to 1966 and again from 1972 to … Continue reading →

Robert Logan, Professor of the Organisation of Medical Care at the School from 1967 until 1982, has died peacefully on Friday 2 September, at the age of 99. Professor Logan (known to all his friends and colleagues as Bob) was … Continue reading →