London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
motto	Committed to improving health worldwide
founding	1899, as the London School of Tropical Medicine
Sponsorship	state
place	London , UK
director	Peter Piot
Students	2,805 (total of which 1,922 as distance students)
Employee	766 (full-time equivalent)
Website	www.lshtm.ac.uk

Main entrance (Keppel Street)

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (in German: Londoner Hygiene- und Tropicalmedizinhochschule ; LSHTM or "London School" for short) is a college at the University of London , specializing in public health , epidemiology , international and global health and tropical medicine . The training takes place exclusively postgraduate, which means that no Bachelor courses are offered.

The LSHTM is one of the world's most renowned institutions in the fields of public health and infectious diseases. In October 2013, it was named the World's Leading Research Graduate School by the Times Higher Education .

structure

The London School is in different departments ( Department organized), (the Department of Epidemiology and Public health Department of Epidemiology and Population Health ), which deals mainly with methodological and epidemiological issues, the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases ( Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases ), which combines the laboratory-related research directions of the school, and the Department of Public Health and Policy , which focuses on the fields of application of research.

history

Side entrance (Malet Street)

The LSHTM library

The London School was founded in 1899 by the "father of [British] tropical medicine", Sir Patrick Manson , as the London School of Tropical Medicine , but at that time at a different location in the London Docklands . Manson was a doctor who had worked in the Far East between 1860 and 1880, where he encountered tropical diseases and was confronted with the limits of his knowledge. After returning to London, he was appointed advisor to the Colonial Bureau. With many British citizens dying of tropical diseases that could have been prevented if doctors had been better trained, he initiated their training by founding the school, which was initially located on a hospital ship.

In 1920 the LSHTM moved to the center of London, to Endsleigh Gardens. In 1921, the Athlone Committee recommended the formation of a government institute that would lead the world in promoting public health and tropical medicine. This expanded school was renamed the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1924 .

The main building was on Keppel Street in Bloomsbury from 1929 . The purchase of the site and the construction of the building were made possible by a donation of US $ 2 million from the Rockefeller Foundation.

building

The LSHTM building was designed in the Art Deco style by architects Morley Horder and Verner Rees. Many details indicate the school's use as a teaching and research institute for public health and tropical medicine. So are z. B. in the small metal grilles in front of the windows, various insects are reproduced, which are important as carriers of diseases. In the frieze that runs around the school below the roof, the names of important researchers are quoted, including on the south side Ronald Ross (discovered the malaria cycle), William Farr (formed the national statistics ), Edward Jenner (developed the smallpox vaccination), Patrick Manson (Founder of LSHTM), Joseph Lister (introduced antiseptic techniques to surgery), Louis Pasteur (founder of the germ theory and developer of pasteurization ), Robert Koch (pioneer of bacteriology, discovered the organisms causing tuberculosis and cholera), David Bruce ( proved that sleeping sickness is transmitted by the tsetse fly); on the west side: James Lind (developed an effective diet for the prevention of scurvy), Walter Reed (showed that yellow fever is transmitted by Aedes Aegypti ); on the east side: William Leishman (army pathologist), Johann Peter Frank (pioneer of public health), Max von Pettenkofer (pioneer of hygiene).

School directors

• Sir Francis Lovell 1903 to 1916
• Sir Havelock Charles 1916 to 1924
• Sir Andrew Balfour 1923 to 1931
• Wilson Jameson 1931 to 1940
• 1939 to 1945 - several director changes due to Jameson's military service
• JM Mackintosh 1945 to 1950
• Andrew Topping 1950 to 1955
• Austin Bradford Hill 1955 to 1957
• James Kilpatrick 1957 to 1960
• ETC Spooner 1960 to 1970
• Professor Gordon Smith 1970 to 1989
• Professor Richard Feachem 1989 to 1995
• BS Drasar during 1995
• Harrison Spencer 1996 to 2000
• Geoffrey Targett during 2000
• Sir Andrew Haines 2001 to 2010
• Peter Piot since 2010

Prices for the school

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine won the Gates Award for Global Health in 2009 for $ 1 million in prize money. The money is to be used primarily for the further development of the school's distance learning program and for scholarships for students from low-income countries.

Prices by the school

• The Donald Reid Medal is awarded every three years by the LSHTM for excellent research in the field of epidemiology.

Web links

• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine website
• History of LSHTM

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Highly accomplished outcasts . Retrieved July 11, 2014.
2. ^ Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital . Archives in London and the M25 area ( AIM25 ). Retrieved January 11, 2011.
3. ↑ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Notes for History round the Block , handout issued by the LSHTM
4. ↑ Press release on the presentation of the Gates Award . Archived from the original on July 6, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 11, 2011. 
5. ↑ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Report on the Work of the School 1977–1978 , p. 21, 1978

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '14.3 "  N , 0 ° 7' 48"  W.