Obituary
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
Donald “D. A.” Henderson, Dean Emeritus of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Honorary Fellow at our School, has died at the age of 87. Professor Henderson was a key figure in public health. From 1967, he led … Continue reading
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Professor Harrison Spencer, the School’s former Dean, has died in tragic circumstances. Professor Spencer was appointed Dean of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1996, and … Continue reading
Professor Michael J.R. Healy, former Head of the School’s Medical Statistics Unit (now the Department of Medical Statistics) has died at the age of 92. He was Professor of Medical Statistics at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine … Continue reading
It is with much sadness that we announce the loss of Dr Myron G. Schultz DVM, MD, DCMT, FACP, who passed away on Friday 19 February 2016 due to pulmonary hypertension, aged 81. Dr Schultz was an award winning epidemiologist … Continue reading
With much sadness we announce that Gerald Vivian Coles (Grad. Dip. Occ. Hyg. 1966 and Senior Lecturer in OH 1974-76) passed away on 16 January 2016, following a protracted period of ill health, aged 91. After graduating from the London … Continue reading
Stuart Paynter (MSc Public Health, 1999), sadly passed away 25 May 2016 aged 46 in Queensland, Australia where he was Senior Lecturer of Clinical Epidemiology at the School of Public Health. Stuart was a wildly intelligent, outgoing person who wasn’t … Continue reading
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Dr Sylvia Meek, Global Technical Director of Malaria Consortium and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School, passed away on 11th May 2016. Sylvia’s passion for the environment and disease … Continue reading