Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
LSTM Human Challenge Facility | UK's Largest Academic Unit
We recently held a launch event for our new Human Challenge Facility, the largest academic inpatient isolation facility in the UK. Developed by LSTM in partnership with University Hospitals of Live...
LSTM Inaugural Lecture - Professor Eve Worrall
Professor Eve Worrall's inaugural lecture explored the role economics plays in shaping global health policy, practice and decision-making.
Drawing on nearly 30 years of experience as a researcher,...
The Policy and Political Economy of Resource Mobilization and Utilization for UHC in Nigeria
The presentation showcases how the interaction between health financing policy and the political economy shapes health resource mobilization and utilization, and its implications for Nigeria’s Univ...
Dr Gafar Alawode
We welcome back to LSTM Dr Gafar Alawode (MSc Tropical Medicine, 2006), in May 2026 for an alumni seminar titled: The Policy and Political Economy of Resource Mobilization and Utilization for UHC ...
Building health systems that can withstand crisis | LSTM
What happens to healthcare when conflict, climate shocks or disease outbreaks hit?
At Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, researchers within the Institute for Resilient Health Systems are worki...
TOCSINS Trial : Testing an oral treatment for snakebites in the Amazon
TOCSINS (Trial of Oral Combination Therapies for Snakebite Envenoming) is a groundbreaking clinical trial led by the Centre for Snakebite Research and Interventions (CSRI) at LSTM. The project aims...
World-first discovery of noma-linked bacteria opens path to early diagnosis and prevention | LSTM
Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have identified a bacterium strongly associated with noma disease, marking a major step towards earlier diagnosis and more effective trea...
World-first discovery of noma-linked bacteria opens path to early diagnosis and prevention | LSTM
Researchers at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) have identified a bacterium strongly associated with noma disease, marking a major step towards earlier diagnosis and more effective trea...
Surviving MDR-TB and the Power of Person-Centred Care
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In this episode of the LSTM in Conversation podcast, Dr. Tom Wingfield (https://www.lstmed.ac.uk/about/people/dr-tom-wingfield)...
Female Genital Schistosomiasis: Research, and Women’s Health in Liberia
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In this episode of LSTM In Conversation, Professor Russell Stothard speaks with PhD candidate Ayesha Bell-Gamwoto a...
LSTM Inaugural Lecture - Professor Jo Raven
The world’s health systems have taken a battering in recent years. Wars, migration, climate change, a pandemic and many other shocks and stressors have impacted on our health systems and the servic...
Why are only 35% of science graduates women? | International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The UN notes that despite young women being more likely than men to progress to higher education globally, women make up only 35% of science graduates. In 2022, just 31.1% of scientific researchers...
Scholarships for Women in STEM and Global Health | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), in partnership with the British Council, is delighted to be able to be able to offer five scholarships as part of the Women in STEM scholarship program...
Person-centred sickle cell care: lived experience and participatory research
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In this episode of In Conversation with LSTM, alumnus Dr Motto Nganda is joined by Ayo Akinmolayan, who brings l...
Hybrid parasites threaten progress against one of the world’s most widespread neglected diseases
New research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) warns that hybrid forms of the parasites that cause schistosomiasis are undermining existing disease control strategies and could ac...
LSTM Chancellor’s Lecture: Elhadj As Sy
Working in humanitarian settings: health as a damage; health as a response