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News article 24 Nov 2020 LSTM welcomes BAME staff network focusing on improving racial equality Next week will see the formal launch of LSTM’s BAME Staff Network. The network has been established by staff volunteers to support all UK and...
News article 23 Nov 2020 LSTM’s Professor Nick Feasey awarded over £140 thousand from UKRI to support antibiotic use in East Africa LSTM’s Professor Nick Feasey has been awarded over £140 thousand from the UKRI to provide an essential information package for optimising antibiotic...
High-dependency unit at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi News article 19 Nov 2020 MLW Programme opens a High Dependency Unit (HDU) at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi Malawi Liverpool Wellcome (MLW) Research Programme has designed and opened a High Dependency Unit (HDU) at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre...
Agar letters - Photo: Ms Issra Bulgasim & Ms Ellie Allman News article 18 Nov 2020 LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts contributes to Change the Course report released at start of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week LSTM’s Dr Adam Roberts, Reader in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy & Resistance and LSTM's lead for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), is a member of...
Anopheles stephensi News article 17 Nov 2020 LSTM receives Wellcome grant to investigate the origins, epidemiological importance and control of the invasive malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi in the Horn of Africa Having secured a £3.5 million collaborative award from Wellcome for 4 years, LSTM's Vector Biology Department will lead a trans-disciplinary...
IRS operators head out for a day of work, Credit: Brant Stewart, RTI/PMI 2011 News article 13 Nov 2020 I2I receives new award to improve access to new vector control tools The Innovation to Impact (I2I) team at LSTM have been awarded a $2 million USD follow-on grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I2I works...
Wavertree Church of England pupils washing hands activity News article 5 Nov 2020 Everton Football Club and LSTM announce formal partnership Two of the oldest and most respected organisations on Merseyside, Everton and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), are now working together...
News article 2 Nov 2020 Giving birth to a teenage-sized baby! Isn’t that impossible? Across most of the animal kingdom, offspring are born smaller than their parents. Surprisingly, several families of insects, including tsetse flies,...
iiCON News article 27 Oct 2020 First partner meeting of iiCON, the Infection Innovation Consortium The new multimillion-pound Infection Innovation Consortium (iiCON), had its initial partner meeting, setting the agenda of their work over the next...
News article 26 Oct 2020 LSTM’s Trustee, Professor Nyovani Madise, has been appointed to a United Nations SDG panel Professor Madise, who is the Director of Research and Development Policy and Head of the Malawi Office of the African Institute for Development...
Malcolm Guy News article 21 Oct 2020 In memoriam: Malcolm Guy 1944 - 2020 It is with deep regret that LSTM has learned of the unexpected death of Malcolm Guy who was Head of LSTM’s Dagnall Teaching Laboratory from 1989 to...
News article 16 Oct 2020 LSTM partner in national ‘Decade of Health’ campaign LSTM is proud to be a part of a new campaign funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which highlights the research being carried out in the...
News article 14 Oct 2020 ARCS receives award from the Global Sepsis Alliance The African Research Collaboration on Sepsis (ARCS), a multinational collaboration led by LSTM, has been named one of the winners of this year’s...
News article 13 Oct 2020 LSTM welcomes Professor Dame Tina Lavender LSTM welcomes Professor Dame Tina Lavender to the Department of International Public Health, as she heads up LSTM’s new Centre for Childbirth, Women’...
Dr Sia Morenike Mojama Tengbe News article 9 Oct 2020 World Mental Health Day 2020: one LSTM student’s research on mental health amongst health workers in Sierra Leone “When I feel weak and don’t want to go work, I remember my nurse’s and military pledge, so I need to fulfil my duty…”. LSTM student’s research on...
Bernadette Thomas a Community Health Worker from Bonthe District of Sierra Leone poses next to a photo exhibition about the challenges she and her colleagues face in the course of their work. News article 9 Oct 2020 World Mental Health Day 2020. Protecting the mental health of the global health workforce during COVID-19: Lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak As we approach a second wave of COVID-19 researchers are looking at what can be learnt from countries affected by the Ebola outbreak in order to...
Laurence Westgaph News article 7 Oct 2020 Liverpool Philanthropy, Slavery and Empire : An LSTM Seminar during Black History Month LSTM’s events for Black History Month began today with the first of a specially commissioned lecture series - Decolonisation of Global Health and...
THET logo News article 5 Oct 2020 LSTM and THET launch the UK Partnerships for Health Systems programme LSTM, in partnership with the Tropical Health Education Trust (THET), has launched the UK Partnerships for Health Systems (UKPHS) programme.UKPHS is...
Gaining informed consent for the HH survey News article 2 Oct 2020 LSTM’s researchers through to the next round for funding from ELHRA’s Humanitarian Innovation Fund to improve the value of humanitarian programmes in Northern Uganda Researchers from LSTM, led by Professor Joe Valadez, have proposed Metrics for Action (M4Action), a mixed-methods toolkit designed for Non-...
Malaria-carrying mosquito resting on a bed net due to resistance to insecticide News article 2 Oct 2020 CRID awarded grant for the detection of molecular markers of insecticide resistance in malaria vectors The Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases (CRID) in Cameroon has been awarded a $3.7 million grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for...
Preparing for the pandemic in Sierra Leone News article 1 Oct 2020 LSTM joins major new research consortium analysing African cities A partnership of urban development experts – including LSTM – has been awarded a contract of £32 million to establish the African Cities Research...
Close up of 3d microscopic rod bacteria stock photo News article 1 Oct 2020 LSTM researchers have uncovered a molecular mechanism of an emerging type of antimicrobial resistance in E.coli LSTM researchers have uncovered a molecular mechanism behind an unusual and emerging type of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli (...
News article 25 Sep 2020 Launch of the LIGHT consortium Following the announcement by UK’s Global Health Minister Morton of a new UK aid funded research programme in July, the LIGHT consortium held its...
Local operational teams continue with activities News article 25 Sep 2020 Demonstrating the sustainability of capacity strengthening during a pandemic While many disease control programmes have been halted or reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the capacity strengthening built into a programme for...
News article 23 Sep 2020 Play a key part in the search for an effective COVID-19 vaccine We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to work as research ambassadors for the COVID-19 Vaccine Trials currently taking place in Liverpool.
Professor Janet Hemingway News article 22 Sep 2020 LSTM’s Professor Janet Hemingway voted President-Elect of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Following their Annual General meeting, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has announced that LSTM’s Professor Janet...
Dr Laura-Oana Abulescu News article 18 Sep 2020 International Snakebite Awareness Day This year’s International Snakebite Awareness Day is shining a light on WOMEN CHAMPIONS OF SNAKEBITE (WCOS), like LSTM’s Dr Laura-Oana Albulescu, who...
Healthcare worker at home visit News article 18 Sep 2020 AGILE trial now recruiting patients for efficacy of COVID-19 treatments The innovative COVID-19 drug testing platform, AGILE, is a collaboration led by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, the University of...
Anopheles stephensi News article 16 Sep 2020 A new malaria vector in Africa: Predicting the expansion range of Anopheles stephensi and identifying the urban populations at risk A collaboration of researchers from LSTM and the University of Oxford have mapped the risk posed by an Asian malaria-carrying mosquito that has...
Rachel Byrne in the diagnostics lab News article 14 Sep 2020 LSTM researchers find an easy alternative to nasal and throat swabbing for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnosis Researchers from LSTM, working alongside clinical and research staff at the Royal Liverpool and Aintree University Hospitals, have found that saliva...
The GLOW (Global Women’s Research Society) Conference organising committee News article 11 Sep 2020 LSTM hosts the virtual GLOW (Global Women’s Research Society) Conference 2020 LSTM has co-hosted this year’s GLOW (Global Women’s Research Society) Conference, which has been jointly organised with the University of Liverpool’s...
image of a mosquito taking a blood meal from a person News article 8 Sep 2020 New online course launched on the control of vector borne diseases LSHTM and its ARCTEC team, IVCC and LSTM are launching a brand new free online course on the control of vector borne diseases such as malaria, dengue...
image of eggs of Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni in the urine of a Malawian male child. Image: Dr Seke Kayuni News article 2 Sep 2020 LSTM and MLW to receive £1.7 million Wellcome grant to investigate schistosomiasis outbreak in Malawi Researchers at LSTM, working alongside colleagues in Malawi, are to receive a Joint Investigator Award of £1.7 million from Wellcome to help develop...
George Omondi and Daudi Sallah (IPR), Lauren Thistlethwaite and Paula McCabe (LSTM) and Collins Waweru (IPR) at IPR offices. News article 21 Aug 2020 Kenyan based Institute of Primate Research recipient of first Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP) Certification in Africa The Kenyan-based Institute of Primate Research is the first organisation in Africa to be certified under the Good Financial Grant Practice (GFGP...
Vaccine Trial unit at LSTM News article 20 Aug 2020 Would you like to volunteer to take part in COVID -19 Vaccine Research? Research into vaccines is the only way to find out which vaccines will work – researchers need people to take part in studies to find out which...
News article 17 Aug 2020 Call for volunteers: COVID-LIV Virology Study Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the University of Liverpool have launched the Liverpool Household COVID-19 Cohort Study, COVID- LIV.
News article 12 Aug 2020 ReBUILD for Resilience, an LSTM led consortium, awarded £7.68 million by DFID The grant will be used to investigate health systems in fragile contexts experiencing violence, conflict and other global health challenges. The aim...
News article 11 Aug 2020 COVID-19 campaign to reach millions in 9 African countries LSTM is one of the partners in organising several COVID-19 awareness campaigns, targeting millions of people in West and Central Africa. With UK Aid...
News article 11 Aug 2020 Global Health Respiratory Network (GHRN) calls for equity in respiratory research funding Writing in this week’s Lancet Respiratory Medicine on behalf of the Global Health Respiratory Network (GHRN), LSTM's Dr Angela Obasi and colleagues...
News article 7 Aug 2020 Racial inequalities and COVID-19: Building Back Better for All In collaboration with Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and academics across the region The Heseltine Institute at the University of Liverpool...

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