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| 1818 |
William Wilberforce and Zachary Macaulay launch appeal
for 'relief of distressed seamen' in wake of Napoleonic wars. |
| 1821 |
Wilberforce's Committee becomes the Seamen's Hospital
Society (SHS) with a hospital ship, the Grampus, loaned by
the Admiralty. |
| 1831 |
The Grampus replaced by the larger Dreadnought;
this name adopted for subsequent ships and finally for the Society's
on-shore hospital buildings at Greenwich, established in 1870. |
| 1866 |
Patrick Manson arrives in Formosa (Taiwan) as MO to
Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs and learns of tropical diseases
the hard way; 1871 transfers to Amoy. |
| 1883 |
Manson settles in private practice in Hong Kong, joined
in 1887 by James Cantlie; launch of Hong Kong's Medical College. |
| 1889 |
Manson retires to Scotland. |
| 1890 |
Opening of SHS's Branch Hospital at the Albert Dock. |
| 1892 |
Manson appointed physician to the Albert Dock Hospital.
With its incoming patients from Africa, India and the Far East suffering
from tropical diseases, it attracts students keen to learn their
diagnosis and treatment. |
| 1894 |
Manson begins annual course of lectures to students
at St George's Hospital. |
| 1897 |
Manson appointed medical advisor to Colonial Office
with access to Chamberlain and H J Read. Lectures at St George's
Hospital 'On the necessity for special education in tropical medicine'.
Read responds with memorandum. |
| 1898 |
Cantlie and W J Ritchie Simpson found Journal of
Tropical Medicine; Ronald Ross discovers bird malaria cycle.
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine founded. |
| 1898-1902 |
Malaria Committee of the Royal Society (C W Daniels,
J W W Stephens and S R Christophers) report from India and West
Africa. |
| 1899 |
Opening of London School of Tropical Medicine (October) |
| 1899-1910 |
Position of 'Superintendent' (Medical Tutor) revolving
between D C Rees, Daniels and G C Low ('Director' in his last year). |
| 1899-1900 |
G C Low, Thomas Bancroft and Manson establish passage
of filarial larvae through salivary glands of mosquito into its
proboscis. |
| 1900 |
Low, Sambon and Terzi spend three months in mosquito
proof hut in malarial Roman Campagna, proving epidemiological point:
no mosquitoes between dusk and dawn, no malaria. |
| 1902 |
First Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission begins
work in Uganda. Ronald Ross awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine for
his proof of the mosquito transmission of malaria. |
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| 1903 |
Sir Francis Lovell appointed School's first Dean. |
| 1905 |
Manson appoints first specialist lecturers
(helminthology and protozoology); School admitted School of the
University of London, Faculty of Medicine, in tropical medicine
only; Robert Leiper establishes life-cycle of guinea worm at Accra. |
| 1907 |
Formation of the (Royal) Society of Tropical Medicine
and Hygiene. |
| 1908 |
Sleeping Sickness Bureau established. |
| 1911-1913 |
Short-lived Journal of The London
School of Tropical Medicine. |
| 1913 |
The Rockefeller Foundation's new International Health
Board under Wickliffe Rose makes early contact with the School's
helminthologists to consult on hookworm disease. |
| 1913-1914 |
Leiper and E L Atkinson confirm Japanese results on
life-cycle of Schistosoma species. |
| 1914 |
C M Wenyon leaves School for Wellcome Bureau of Scientific
Research in the Tropics; succeeded by John Gordon Thomson. |
| 1914-1918 |
The Great War. Teaching in abeyance; staff and hospital
part of the war effort. First scientific malaria survey of war carried
out by S R Christophers and H E Shortt, modelled on Christophers'
earlier malaria surveys in India. |
| 1918-1919 |
The great influenza pandemic ('Spanish' flu). |
| 1918-1920 |
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the London
School of Tropical Medicine move to Endsleigh Gardens. |
| 1919 |
Creation of Ministry of Health, Christopher Addison
first Minister of Health, replaced in 1921 by Alfred Mond. |
| 1919-1920 |
Preliminary moves by Rockefeller Foundation to explore
possibilities for a School of Public Health in London. |
| 1921 |
Topley and Greenwood begin collaboration on experimental
epidemiology. Report of Athlone Committee on Tropical Diseases with
observers from the Rockefeller Foundation, June; Alfred Mond as
Minister of Health sets up committee to draft scheme for 'Institute
of State Medicine' July. London University adopts the degree of
Ph.D. |
| 1922 |
A week before his death in April, Manson accepts Rockefeller
proposals for School. |
| 1923 |
In March the 'National Theatre Committee' accepts
Rockefeller offer of £52,000 for Bloomsbury site on corner
of Gower Street and Keppel Street. Andrew Balfour appointed Director
of new School in October. Opening of Leiper's Institute of Agricultural
Parasitology. Castellani and W J R Simpson launch appeal for 'Ross
Clinic'. |
| 1924 |
Charter for School of Hygiene given Royal approval.
The SHS abdicates responsibility for Tropical School followed by
plans for 'Imperial Hospital for Tropical Diseases'; project shelved
in 1927, when SHS decided to cooperate and not to close down hospital
in Endsleigh Gardens. School abandons original Diploma in Tropical
Medicine and begins introducing London University Diploma of Bacteriology
together with DPH (Engl.) and DTM&H (Engl.) |
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| 1925 |
The Horton Malaria Centre for malaria therapy opens
at Epsom (later the Malaria Reference Laboratory and WHO Regional
Malaria Centre for Europe). |
| 1926 |
P A Buxton succeeds A W Alcock in Department of Entomology;
V B Wigglesworth appointed Lecturer in Medical Entomology; Ross
Institute and Hospital for Tropical Diseases opens at Putney. |
| 1926-1929 |
Building of new School (LSHTM) on Keppel Street site. |
| 1927 |
J J C Buckley joins Leiper's department. On Lockwood
Stevens' initiative Sir Malcolm Watson is brought in to conduct
Ross Institute malaria control policy. Topley and Greenwood appointed
to new chairs of bacteriology and epidemiology, respectively, at
LSTHM. |
| 1929 |
New LSHTM officially opened by Prince of Wales on
18 July. Wilson Jameson appointed Head of Division of Public Health.
Balfour writes his last report before complete breakdown. Two main
divisions replace Old Tropical School: Medical Zoology (helminthology,
protozoology and entomology); and Clinical Tropical Medicine (remaining
in Endsleigh Gardens). Harold Raistrick appointed University Professor
and Director of Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry as Applied
to Hygiene. Arrival at School of Neil Hamilton Fairley. Millais
Culpin joins School as Lecturer in Industrial Psychology. G P Crowden
appointed Lecturer in Applied Physiology. Development of School
and Library Museum collections under Barnard and Newham respectively. |
| 1930 |
G S Wilson appointed Professor of Bacteriology as
Applied to Hygiene. Development of DPH course to include seminars
and tutorials and closer links with Epidemiology and Medical Statistics. |
| 1931 |
Balfour's frozen body found in grounds of Cassell
Hospital, Kent, where, he was being treated for clinical depression,
on January 30th; Wilson Jameson takes over as first Dean of LSHTM
in January. S R Christophers joins the LSHTM as Professor of Malaria
Studies in the University of London. Millais Culpin appointed University
of London Professor of Medical Industrial Psychology at ASHTM. Death
of W R Simpson. |
| 1932 |
MRC Malaria Unit under S R Christophers established
at LSHTM with Leverhulme grant. Death of Ronald Ross. |
| 1933 |
Austin Bradford Hill appointed Reader at LSHTM |
| 1934 |
Ross Institute moves under the umbrella of LSHTM,
and its hospital becomes Ross Ward of the Hospital for Tropical
Diseases. |
| 1934-1939 |
Watson builds up the Ross Institute as its Director
until retirement in 1942. |
| 1935 |
Publication of first edition of Major Greenwood's
Epidemics and Crowd Disease. |
| 1935-1936 |
Reorganisation of teaching of epidemiology, with more
emphasis on textbooks and informal discussions with seminars, less
on formal lectures. MRC Special Report on experimental epidemiology
by Topley, Greenwood, Bradford Hill and Joyce Wilson. Formation
of Bacteriological Warfare Subcommittee of the Committee of Imperial
Defence. Wigglesworth appointed London University Reader in Entomology
at LSHTM. |
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| 1937 |
Existing 'Divisions' become 'Departments' by decree
of the Board of Management. Publication of first edition of Bradford
Hill's Principles of Medical Statistics. J G Thomson dies
in office; helminthology and protozoology united in new single large
Department of Parasitology, with readership in medical parasitology
for H E Shortt. George Macdonald appointed assistant director of
Ross Institute. |
| 1938 |
Report of the Emergency Bacteriological Services Subcommittee,
chaired by Topley. LSHTM Annual Report emphasises preparation for
war, including consideration of emergency shelters on agenda in
Public Health. |
| 1939-1945 |
World War II. All regular courses suspended; short
intensive courses in tropical medicine and hygiene for Medical Officers
about to serve in tropical areas. Bomb damage to Malet Street wing
in May 1941: extensive damage to Museum's collections of teaching
aids, but no personal injuries. Successive changes of Dean because
of wartime commitments of Wilson Jameson and Brigadier Parkinson. |
| 1941 |
Topley appointed Secretary to the ARC; G S Wilson
becomes Director, EPHLS. |
| 1944 |
Introduction of use of DDT. Formation of MRC's Human
Nutrition Unit under B S Platt. |
| 1944-1945 |
J M Mackintosh takes office as Professor of Public
Health in October 1944, and as Dean in January 1945. |
| 1945 |
V B Wigglesworth leaves for Cambridge
with Research Unit of Insect Physiology. Greenwood retires as Emeritus
Professor of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics; succeeded by Bradford
Hill as Professor of Medical Statistics. Gradual return of staff
from wartime appointments; EPHLS becomes PHLS. |
| 1945-1946 |
Large numbers of ex-service men and women apply for
DPH courses. Rockefeller Foundation offers fellowships for training
'hand-picked' students in Public Health Department. Growing collaborations
with other Schools of University: Institute of Child Health, Hammersmith
Postgraduate Medical School, LSE. Introduction of lectures on sociology
and social medicine. |
| 1946 |
Leiper retires, H E Shortt becomes Professor of Medical
Protozoology and Director of Department. Neil Hamilton Fairley takes
up newly created Wellcome Chair of Clinical Tropical Medicine. Creation
of a Department of Human Nutrition at LSHTM with Platt in the country's
first Chair of Human Nutrition and continuing as Head of MRC Unit
until its closure in 1967. |
| 1947 |
Graham Wilson leaves Department of Bacteriology for
full-time Directorship of PHLS; succeeded by E T C Spooner in Topley's
chair and as head of department. J C Cruickshank inherits Wilson's
personal title and J T Duncan becomes Reader in Medical Mycology.
George Macdonald appointed first Professor of Tropical Hygiene and
Director of Ross Institute. J H F Brotherston appointed Lecturer
in Preventive and Social Medicine in Department of Public Health;
his arrival foreshadows developments in emerging 'medical sociology'
and the growing impact of economics on Public Health. |
| 1948 |
Introduction of National Health Service (NHS) 5 July,
following the NHS Act of 1946 (NHS (Reorganisation) Act followed
in 1973). Hamilton Fairley forced by illness to resign Wellcome
Chair; Murgatroyd succeeds him but dies suddenly in December 1951.
D D Reid becomes Reader in Epidemiology and Vital Statistics. |
| 1949 |
M A Delafield retires and sub-department of 'Chemistry
as Applied to Hygiene' disappears. Department of Medical Statistics
re-titled Medical Statistics and Epidemiology. |
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| 1950 |
Preliminary report by Doll and Hill on smoking and
lung cancer. Bradford Hill fights, and wins, his case for his department
to be classified as 'pre-clinical' rather than 'non-clinical'. Andrew
Topping succeeds Mackintosh as first full-time Dean. |
| 1951 |
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases moves to St Pancras
Way. Establishment of 'Sub-Unit of Occupational Health' linked to
Industrial Health Service at Slough. |
| 1952 |
H E Shortt retires; P C C Garnham succeeds him. Publication
of MRC Report on streptomycin in tuberculosis controlled clinical
trial. Introduction of Applied Nutrition Research Unit, specialising
in nutrition and food technology in colonial territories, funded
by the Colonial Office and linked to the MRC's work in Gambia. |
| 1953 |
Post-war revival of parasitology department's fieldwork
at Winches Farm. M D Warren becomes tutor to foreign students, acting
as counsellor in language and personal problems during their first
term. |
| 1954 |
End of the School's involvement in the MRC's Gambian
projects. |
| 1955 |
Buxton dies in office, succeeded by D S Bertram. Death
of Andrew Topping; Bradford Hill 'acting' Dean, then Dean for two
years. |
| 1955-1956 |
Sub-Unit replaced by Rockefeller Unit of Occupational
Health. R S F Schilling is Director of Unit and University Reader
in Occupational Health. |
| 1956 |
J M Mackintosh retires, succeeded in Public Health
by W S Walton in Chair and Stuart Hinds as Reader. Rockefeller Foundation
awards School £17,000 grant to investigate protein values
of tropical dietaries. Retirement of Harold Raistrick, succeeded
J H Birkinshaw. |
| 1957 |
Sir James Kilpatrick appointed Dean. |
| 1958 |
Geoffrey Rose joins epidemiology department: 'part-time'
Reader 1964; 'Visiting Professor of Epidemiology and Preventive
Medicine 1970' 1970; Full Professor of Epidemiology 1977. |
| 1959 |
Forrest Fulton appointed to Britain's first chair
of Virology at LSHTM. Hospital Feeding Survey (Nuffield Provincial
Hospitals' Trust) under T P Eddy introduced in the Department of
Nutrition. |
| 1960-1965 |
Major restructuring of facilities for library, teaching
and research with support from the Wellcome Trust, the Wolfson Foundation
and Marks and Spencer; new lectureships funded by Ministry of Overseas
Development. |
| 1960 |
Death of Sir James Kilpatrick; E T C Spooner becomes
full-time Dean. With additional grants from the Rockefeller Foundation
and the Leverhulme Trust Fund, the Rockefeller Unit of Occupational
Health becomes a full department, with R S H Schilling as Professor.
FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Nutrition endorses Platt's concept of
'marasmic kwashiorkor'; W R Aykroyd joins nutrition department as
senior lecturer after retiring from FOA, and T P Eddy moves to nutrition
(cf 1959) form Sierra Leone Medical Services. |
| 1961 |
C E Gordon Smith appointed Reader in Virology. D G
Evans takes over from Spooner in Bacteriology. Bradford Hill retires.
Peter Armitage succeeds to his chair in Medical Statistics and D
D Reid becomes Director of the Department of Medical Statistics
and Epidemiology. Richard Doll becomes Director of the MRC Statistical
Research Unit. |
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| 1962 |
Birkinshaw retires; 'Biochemistry' is absorbed into
a number of other departments with 'biochemical needs' instead of
a separate department. UNICEF provides money for special courses
in applied nutrition work in developing countries. |
| 1963 |
West block of Winches Farm restored; George Nelson
begins to rebuild experimental helminthology at the Field Station,
eventually to become WFL (Winches Farm Laboratories). |
| 1964 |
LSHTM introduces Academic Postgraduate Diploma in
Nutrition (becomes MSc course 1971-2). Hospital Feeding Survey published.
London University confers title of Professor of Entomology as Applied
to Hygiene on J R Busvine. |
| 1965 |
William Brass joins the Department of Medical Statistics
and Epidemiology as Reader in Medical Demography (Professor 1972;
Director, Centre for Overseas Population Studies, 1974-8; Head,
Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology 1977-82, retired
1988). |
| 1967 |
J J C Buckley retires, succeeded by George Nelson.
Gerald Webbe joins Department of Helminthology and is appointed
scientific Director of Winches Farm Field Station and eventually
Sub-Dean. Walton retires and is succeeded by J N Morris who replaces
existing staff with his MRC Social Medicine Research Unit. Only
Sidney Chave and M D Warren remain, easing transition from DPH to
MSc degree course in Social Medicine. MRC Human Nutrition Unit disbanded;
staff transferred to LSHTM. Death of George Macdonald. |
| 1967-1968 |
Reorganisation of Public Health Department, re-establishing
links with LSE and bringing in R F L Logan to head Organisation
of Medical Care Unit. Department also to include the Ministry of
Health's Chronic Disease Control Unit and J H Renwick's Human Genetics
Unit. Ongoing introduction of MSc degree courses to replace diploma
courses: 1967-9 MSc in Medical Parasitology and MSc in Medical Statistics. |
| 1968 |
Report of Todd Committee. TUC Centenary Institute
of Occupational Health established with TUC funding. Schilling appointed
to University Chair of Occupational Health. Department of Parasitology
divided into Medical Helminthology at WFL under G S Nelson, and
Medical Protozoology in Keppel Street under W H R Lumsden (following
Garnham's retirement). Onchocerciasis research begins at WFL, while
studies on the Brugia species, first separated out by Buckley,
continued under David Denham at Keppel Street. |
| 1969 |
First MSc degrees in Occupational Medicine. Morris
introduces new 2-year MSc course in Social Medicine. Bruce-Chwatt
appointed Professor of Tropical Hygiene and Director of the Ross
Institute. Death of B S Platt. Wellcome Trust initiates international
cooperative research programme between Harvard School of Public
Health, LSTHM and South American tropical institutes. |
| 1970 |
Tropical epidemiology formally incorporated in Department
of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, with support from the Wellcome
Trust. C E Gordon Smith becomes Dean. J C Waterlow succeeds Platt,
and Wellcome Foundation provides £118,000 for new clinical
and metabolic unit in the department. Public Health department acquires
Professor of Social Psychiatry (J K Wing) jointly with the Institute
of Psychiatry. |
| 1970-1971 |
New MSc degrees in: Medical Demography; Occupational
Hygiene; Social Medicine. |
| 1971 |
D G Evans resigns from School and the Department of
Bacteriology and Immunology becomes the Department of Microbiology
(later of Medical Microbiology). New MSc in Human Nutrition. |
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| 1972 |
Geoffrey Edsall succeeds Evans as Professor and Director
of Department of Microbiology. Death of J J C Buckley. Roy Acheson
appointed Professor and Director of new Centre for Extension Training
in Community Medicine; discontinued in 1978 after Acheson's departure
for Cambridge in 1976. |
| 1973-1974 |
The MRC arbovirus research project at Kisumu, Kenya,
moves its laboratory work, first housed at Porton Down, to new MRC
laboratory at Winches Farm. |
| 1974 |
Geoffrey Edsall resigns; succeeded by A J Zuckerman.
David Bradley appointed Professor of Tropical Hygiene and Director
of Ross Institute. Major review and initiation of modernisation
in face of severe financial difficulties throughout British Universities. |
| 1975 |
New MSc degrees in Clinical Tropical
Medicine and Medical Microbiology (jointly with RPMS Hammersmith). |
| 1976 |
Bertram and Busvine retire; W W McDonald succeeds
to chair and as Head of Entomology. Retirement of R S F Schilling,
succeeded by J C McDonald who then resigned after five years to
return to McGill University, there to establish new School of Public
Health. |
| 1977 |
Death of Donald Reid; M J R Healy appointed to Chair
of Medical Statistics. Introduction of Nutrition Policy Unit financed
by Ministry of Overseas Development. |
| 1978 |
DTPH course replaced by MSc degree course. J N Morris
retires; M D Warren, Professor at Kent since 1971, reluctantly accepts
Chair of Public Health but soon returns to Kent; Dame Rosemary Rue
of Oxford Regional Health Authority bridges gap until 1982; two-year
MSc course reverts to one year. Ross Institute creates Evaluation
and Planning Centre for Health Care with ODA support. |
| 1979-1980 |
Introduction of MSc degree course in 'Epidemiology
in Developing Countries'. School's Arbovirus Research Unit revived
under M G R Varma, Professor of Medical Entomology. Retirement of
W H R Lumsden from Medical Protozoology; succeeded by Wallace Peters
moving from Walter Myers Chair at Liverpool, leaving Helminthology
at LSHTM; W W McDonald leaves LSHTM after only three years form
Chair of Medical Entomology at Liverpool. |
| 1980 |
Major reorganisation of the School, grouping existing
13 departments in three major Divisions. 'Microbiology' becomes
'Medical Microbiology'; B S Drasar becomes Reader in Bacteriology
jointly with Department of Tropical Hygiene. Title of Professor
of Entomology as Applied to Hygiene conferred on George Davidson,
who moved from Ross Institute to Entomology as caretaker Director,
retiring two years later. Introduction of MSc degrees in 'Community
Medicine and Epidemiology'. |
| 1981 |
Title of Professor of Immunology conferred on M W
Steward (Reader from 1977). Refugee Health Groups within Ross/Tropical
Hygiene funded by Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. |
| 1982 |
J C Waterlow retires as Professor of Human Nutrition;
post frozen until 1993. Philip Payne, Reader in Applied Nutrition
becomes head of department, and Famine Research Unit is established
in association with International Disaster Institute. M G R Varma
appointed joint Head of Entomology and the Arbovirus Unit. Restructuring
of departments brings Patrick Hamilton back from Caribbean as Director
of Community Health. |
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| 1983 |
G A T Targett appointed Professor of Immunology of
Protozoal Diseases (becomes Head of Department of Medical Parasitology
in 1988). |
| 1984 |
Keith P W J McAdam appointed to Wellcome Chair of
Tropical Medicine and Consultant at HTD (Head of Department of Clinical
Sciences 1988-94). |
| 1986 |
Creation of academic initiative post for specialist
in insect behaviour, with links to Imperial College and Birkbeck
College. Board of Management sets up working party under Sir John
Reid to recommend plans for another restructuring of the School.
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| 1987 |
Richard Feachem appointed Professor of Tropical Environmental
Health. Professional Titles conferred: P R Payne, Applied Nutrition;
J P Vaughan, Health Care Epidemiology. |
| 1988 |
Death of Patrick Hamilton and D S Bertram. |
| 1989 |
P G Smith appointed Professor of Tropical Epidemiology
(Head of Department of Epidemiology & Population Sciences from
1990). George Kazantis retires from Chair of Occupational Health;
Occupational Health ceases to be separate department. A J Zuckerman
leaves School to be Dean of Royal Free HMS. B S Drasar awarded personal
Chair in Bacteriology, and heads Bacterial Molecular Genetics Unit.
Michael Healey retires from Chair of Medical Statistics, succeeded
by Stuart Pocock. Philip Payne resigns. Death of Bruce-Chwatt. Wallace
Peters retires from Chair of Medical Protozoology; eventually succeeded
by M A Miles in a personal chair under the new policy of awarding
personal chairs on merit, rather than filling original established
chairs. |
| 1988-1990 |
Gordon Smith retires as Dean in September 1989 having supervised
initial moves in final restructuring of LSHTM for the 1990s as
recommended in the Reid Report, and followed up by new Dean, Richard
Feachem.
Four new large departments formed by merging disciplines:
Department of Clinical Sciences now includes tropical medicine,
medical microbiology, clinical nutrition, and tropical pathology.
Department of Epidemiology and Population Sciences now
includes epidemiology, statistics, medical demography, tropical
public health, and preventive teratology.
Department of Medical Parasitology now includes medical
entomology, medical helminthology, and medical protozoology.
Department of Public Health and Policy now includes community
medicine, occupational medicine and hygiene, health service planning
and evaluation, and nutrition policy; Chair in Community Health
to be replaced by Chairs in Health Policy and Public Health Epidemiology.
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| 1990 |
A H Fairlamb appointed Professor of Molecular Parasitology.
Dorothy Crawford joins Department of Clinical Sciences as Professor
of Microbiology, heading the Cellular and Molecular Virology Unit.
Klim McPherson appointed to Chair of Public Health Epidemiology.
Ruth McWilliam retires as Secretary of the School, succeeded by
B K Gooch. |
| 1991 |
April: First Annual Public Health Form: Malaria
- Waiting for the Vaccine (additional sponsors WHO, ODA, World
Bank, Swiss Tropical Institute). Charles Normand appointed to Chair
in Health Policy. Retirement of G A Rose and of M G R Varma. |
| 1992 |
April: Second Annual Public Health Forum: Europe
Without Frontiers - The Implications for Health. LSHTM introduces
No Smoking Policy. New Chairs: John Cleland (Medical Demography);
C F Curtis (Medical Entomology); M A Miles (Medical Protozoology).
Deaths of: A W Woodruff; T P Eddy; and Erica Wheeler. Closure of
Winches Farm. |
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| 1993 |
April: Third Annual Public Health Forum: Tuberculosis
- Back to the Future. Formation of 'UK Malaria Consortium' jointly
with the Liverpool School and ODA funded. Retirement of Gerald Webbe.
Alumni Reunions, attended by staff members, in Kuala Lumpur and
Thailand. |
| 1994 |
April: Fourth Annual Public Health Forum: Vaccination
and World Health. First Science Open Day for sixth formers at
the School. New personal chairs: Nick Black (Health Services Research);
Betty Kirkwood (Epidemiology and International Health); Anne Mills
(Health Economics and Policy). Paul Fine (Head, Communicable Disease
Epidemiology Unit) opens first Annual Pump Handle Lecture of new
John Snow Society. Death of Sir John Reid, chair of the Board of
Management since 1989. Death of P C C Garnham. |
| 1995 |
April: Fifth Annual Public Health Forum: Health
at the Crossroads - Transport Policy and Urban Health. R Feachem
resigns as Dean to become head of new public health department at
the World Bank in Washington. B S Drasar Acting Dean; Keith McAdam,
on secondment as Wellcome Professor of Tropical Medicine, becomes
Director of MRC Laboratories in The Gambia, replacing Brian Greenwood
who after 15 years in The Gambia is awarded a personal chair in
the Department of Medical Parasitology. Other new personal chairs:
A Bryceson (Tropical Medicine); R Hayes (Epidemiology and International
Health); Harrison Spencer, Dean (Public Health); A J Swerdlow (Epidemiology).
Death of E T C Spooner and of J D Gillett. |
| 1996 |
Professor Harrison Spencer takes office as Dean. April:
Sixth Annual Public Health Forum: Diet, Nutrition and Chronic
Disease. Drasar Committee on Restructuring. George McDonald
Medal awarded jointly to D J Bradley and C F Curtis. |
| 1997 |
April: Seventh Annual Public Health Forum: New
and resurgent infections: prediction, detection and management of
tomorrow's epidemics. Personal chairs conferred on M McKee (European
Public Health) and K de Cock (Medicine and International Health)
. |
| 1997-1998 |
Implementation of Drasar Committee Report. LSHTM now
reorganised into three departments: Epidemiology and Population
Health; Infectious and Tropical Diseases and Public Health and Policy. |
| 1998 |
April: Eighth Annual Public Health Forum: Reforming
Health Sectors. New chairs: C Kendall (Medical Anthropology
and International Health); V Berridge (History); E Riley (Immunology
of Infectious Diseases). |
| 1999 |
The School celebrates its centenary year. April: Ninth Annual
Public Health Forum: Poverty, Inequality and Health. New
chairs: A Fletcher (Epidemiology and Ageing); P Kaye (Cellular
Immunology); M Kenward (SmithKline Beecham Professor of Biostatistics);
N Noah (Public Health); J Peto (Cancer Research Campaign Professor
of Cancer Epidemiology); D Warhurst (Protozoan Chemotherapy);
B Wren (Microbial Pathogenesis).
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| 2000 |
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
awards the School US$40 million for a major programme of work on
malaria. Creation of the Centre on Globalization, Environmental
Change and Health. New chairs: J Ackers (Professor of Postgraduate
Education in Public Health); A Cairncross (Professor of Environmental
Health); F Cutts (Professor of Epidemiology and International Health);
A Hall (Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology); D Leon (Professor
of Epidemiology). Professor Geoffrey Targett appointed as Acting
Dean. |
| 2001 |
Professor Andrew Haines appointed as Dean. Award of £4.8
million from the Science Research Investment Fund, Higher Education
Funding Council for England. Gates Malaria Programme launched
under direction of Professor Brian Greenwood. New chairs: H Dockrell
(Professor of Immunology); A Hill (Professor of Community Nutrition);
I Roberts (Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health) G
Walt (Professor of International Health Policy).School embarked
on a programme of commissioning new art works.
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Used with kind permission of Lise Wilkinson and Anne Hardy, Prevention
and Cure. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
A 20th Century Quest for Global Public Health. 2001. Kegan
Paul, London.
Information for years 2000 onwards added by Victoria Killick,
Archivist.
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