| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 2002 | Construction begins on the North Courtyard site. The School appoints its first professional Archivist, Victoria Killick. Death of Professor Lumsden. New chairs: Diana Elbourne (Health Care Evaluation), Jenny Roberts (Economics of Public Health). |
| 2003 | Death of Steve Bennett. Centre for History in Public Health established. New centres created: Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology and Public and Environmental Health Research. Barbara Sawyer retires and awarded MBE. New chairs: Simon Cousens (Epidemiology & Medical Statistics), Simon Croft (Parasitology), Allen Foster (International Eye Health), Emily Grundy (Demographic Gerontology), Laura Rodrigues (Infectious Disease Epidemiology) and Kaye Wellings (Sexual and Reproductive Health). |
| 2004 | North Courtyard building in Keppel Street opened by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Centre for the Evaluation of Public Health Interventions opens. Health Worldwide – a new fundraising initiative, is launched. School receives $18 million from the Gates Foundation to tackle TB in Africa. Brian Furner retires as Librarian after 22 years in the post, replaced by Caroline Lloyd. |
| 2005 | Professor Andy Haines is knighted. Death of Richard Doll. New chairs: John Kelly (Molecular Biology), Peter Godfrey-Faussett (Infectious Diseases and International Health), Ian Timaeus (Demography). |
| 2006 | Sir Tim Lankester appointed Chairman of the School’s Board. Professor Anne Mills appointed Head of PHP. Death of Victor Glanville, former librarian and Chris Draper, malariologist. Professor Geoff Targett retires. New chairs: Pat Doyle (Epidemiology), David Schellenberg (Malaria and International Health), Charlotte Watts (Gender Violence and Health), Chris Whitty (International Health). |
| 2007 | Death of Ralph Muller. Professor Martin Taylor retires. New chairs: Robin Bailey (Tropical Medicine), Suzanne Filteau (International Nutrition), Lucy Gilson (Health Policy and Systems), Heiner Gosskruth (Epidemiology & International Health), Sharon Huttly (Postgraduate Education in International Health), Diana Lockwood (Tropical Medicine), Vikram Patel (International Mental Health), Mark Petticrew (Public Health Evaluation), John Porter (International Health), Tim Rhodes (Public Health Sociology), David Ross (Epidemiology and International Public Health)Isabel dos Santos Silva (Epidemiology), Liam Smeeth (Clinical Epidemiology), Richard Smith (Health Systems Economics). |
| 2008 | Death of Chris Curtis. The School purchases 15-17 Tavistock Place. New chairs: Oona Campbell (Epidemiology and Reproductive Health), Chris Frost (Medical Statistics), Judith Glynn (Infectious Disease Epidemiology). |
| 2009 | South Courtyard building in Keppel Street opened by HRH Princess Royal. LSHTM awarded the Gates Award for Global Health for the School’s long-standing contributions to global health. New chairs: Ben Armstrong (Epidemiological Statisitics) and Richard Coker (Public Health). Death of Clive Davies, George Nelson, Sir George Godber and Dennis Snow Ridley. |
