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LSTM Annual
Report 2014/15

Chairman’s Foreword

Each year in the summer, the Trustees of the

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM),

together with the senior management team,

hold an ‘away day’. We review our progress

over the previous twelve months and

prepare for the challenges ahead.

This year, as well as noting solid nancial outcomes, we While the
looked back on the opening of the Wolfson building by our headlines may

Patron, the Princess Royal; we encouraged the next step in the have been focussed
build out of LSTM’s campus with the Accelerator project; we on other people

discussed progress in achieving Degree Awarding Powers and and organisations, LSTM
in pursuing opportunities to grow our teaching portfolio.
made and continues to make

its contribution to tackling the Ebola crisis and its legacy.
Looking to the future, the emphasis was on developing Thus the work of the many individuals concerned should be
Liverpool as a national and international centre for recognised – as should the work of the Well Travelled Clinic
translational research into the issue of the increasing
in preparing people for front line activities. This was another
resistance to drugs, including those used in the treatment example of the e ectiveness of LSTM in its work for the
of infectious diseases. As always LSTM seeks to work in co-
public bene t.
operation with key partners: in this case, the University of
Liverpool and the NHS trust are important collaborators in

our drive to address this emerging focus of our endeavours.
Putting this initiative in the current political context of the
‘Northern Powerhouse’, the key conclusion of the 2015 ‘away

day’ was that we needed to
plan for a step change in LSTM’s size and impact over the

coming years.
James Ross OBE
The Trustees have (again!) lost Stephen O’Brien to an
Chairman
important appointment, as in May 2015 he became United
Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian A airs
and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator. We are most grateful

for his continuing commitment to LSTM as he becomes a
Vice-President. We are mourning the passing of Vice-President

Professor Herbert Gilles and remembering his outstanding
contribution to LSTM. We welcome the appointment of new

Trustees, Dr Jenny Amery and Dr Julian Lob-Levyt, as well as
our rst Student Representative Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas.

As always LSTM seeks to work in

co-operation with key partners

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