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LSTM ANNUAL REPORT 2017-2018.Pdf 2017 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Since 1898 LSTM ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18 LSTM ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18 Contents Vision To save lives in resource poor countries through research, education and capacity strengthening 03 Vision Mission Values 42 Strategic & Clinical 04 Chairman’s Foreword Partnerships 05 Director’s Foreword 46 FEATURE: Applied Health Mission 06 Treasurer’s Report 50 Research Funders 51 Research Support To reduce the burden of sickness and mortality in 07 Retirement of Professor disease endemic countries through the delivery of Janet Hemingway CBE FRS 54 Education effective interventions which improve human health as Director 56 Students and Courses and are relevant to the poorest communities 08 Retirement of Senior 57 Clinical Diagnostic Professorial Fellow David Parasitology Molyneux Laboratory Values 09 Introduction to the Impact 58 Well Travelled Clinics and Feature Articles • Making a difference to health and wellbeing 59 LITE 10 Impact Case Studies • Excellence in innovation, leadership and science 60 IVCC 14 FEATURE: Neglected • Achieving and delivering through partnership 61 FEPOW Tropical Diseases • An ethical ethos founded on respect, 62 Public Engagement 17 Department of accountability and honesty Parasitology 64 LSTM in the Media 20 FEATURE: Malaria & Other 66 Estates Vector Borne Diseases 67 Fundraising 24 Department of Vector 68 Social Mission Biology 69 Staff Overview 26 FEATURE: Resistance 70 Governance Research & Management 72 Officers 2017/18 30 Department of Clinical 73 Awards and Honours Sciences 74 Lectures and Seminars 32 FEATURE: Lung Health & TB 75 Publications 36 Department of 76 Consortia International Public 77 LSTM Pioneers Health 78 Public Benefit Statement 38 FEATURE: Maternal, 79 Editorial Colophon Newborn & Child Health Women washing clothes in Arua, Uganda. Vector control is centered around river networks and aims to reduce contact between people and flies. 2 3 LSTM ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18 LSTM ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18 Chairman’s Foreword Director’s Foreword The time has come to celebrate the remarkable seventeen years of Janet This year has been one of transition for LSTM. Our plans for refreshing and Hemingway’s directorship. It’s not a time to say farewell because she will continue expanding our learning and teaching offering have gathered pace. Professor to be very active in LSTM’s research and teaching activities. But she will step away Phil Padfield has joined us from the University of Manchester as the new Dean from the leadership of the institution, with the profound thanks of all of us who of Education, our first on line modules have been launched and the new Global have supported her in the transformation of LSTM. She hands on an organisation Health Masters Programme is being established. in very good shape to face the challenges which a fast-changing world will present. The evolution to a new senior management team into the leading organisation that it is today. The first of our Her successor, Professor David Lalloo, currently Dean of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health at LSTM, will bring to the has started. Earlier this year we said goodbye to the Honorary Graduates are both from Africa. Letitia Obeng being job not only a deep understanding of LSTM, but also a very different experience from his predecessor. He was chosen through a Director of Human Resources Chris Greenway and one of our early Masters students and a pioneer in women’s rigorous recruitment process, against stiff external competition, by the unanimous vote of all members of the selection committee. in November welcomed the new Director of Global education in Ghana, while Victor Mwapasa has had a long I look forward to working with him and expect to see a constructively different approach to the development of LSTM emerging Human Resources, Samantha Airey. The search standing association with LSTM and has helped develop and support the links between LSTM and the College of Medicine over time. for my successor was successfully completed and in Malawi. We are delighted to be able to honour their Meanwhile, as this annual report will show you, LSTM continues to develop on all fronts, not least of which is the relatively new I am delighted that after a thorough competitive contributions to LSTM. emphasis on the teaching dimension of the portfolio. The appointment of Professor Philip Padfield process Professor David Lalloo, was selected to from the University of Manchester, as Dean of Education, is a significant move as he will lead the organisation. He will formally take over As this is my final Director’s foreword, I want to take the shape LSTM’s impact on the next generation of clinicians and researchers in the field of from me on the 1st January 2019. Other members opportunity to thank the Senior Management Team at LSTM, tropical medicine. of the senior team will remain to support David who have been a pleasure to work with, the Board of Trustees who have given up so much of their time and energy to support December 2018 marks the first graduation ceremony of the Liverpool School as he looks to shape the next chapter in the LSTM and myself in the Director’s role, my office support staff, of Tropical Medicine – until now our students have received awards from the organisation’s history. who have provided a superb service and all the staff at LSTM University of Liverpool. This symbolises LSTM’s own graduation to become a LSTM’s research portfolio goes from strength to strength with that make this such a great place to work. I will miss leading the Higher Education Institute in its own right, with degree awarding powers. a robust breadth of donors and funders that should allow us to organisation but am delighted that it is handed over to David in Janet Hemingway’s tenure has been marked by a very rapid expansion of weather any uncertainties that Brexit causes within the higher great shape and am sure that it will thrive under his leadership. staff numbers. This brings its own demands and stresses. We are delighted to education sector. Turnover this year is again a record high, with welcome Sam Airey as the new Director of Human Resources and look forward a healthy surplus to allow us to continue to invest in our staff to her contribution to the management of this international organisation. and facilities. So, it’s a grateful farewell to her, Janet, and a warm welcome to him, David. I am delighted to be presiding over our first Degree Awarding Ceremony in December of this year, with the first batch of students graduating under LSTM’s Degree Awarding Powers. Professor Janet Hemingway CBE FRS This will be a landmark date not only for our students but for the Institution. This has also allowed us to start and recognise James Ross OBE some of the people who have helped build the institution “LSTM continues to develop on all fronts, not least of which is the relatively new emphasis on the teaching Outgoing Director Professor Janet dimension of the portfolio.” Hemingway and incoming Director Professor David Lalloo 4 5 LSTM ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18 LSTM ANNUAL REPORT 2017/18 Treasurer’s Report Retirement of Professor Janet Hemingway CBE FRS as Director LSTM For the tenth successive year the LSTM Group is able to report a record level of income. The reported total income Just over a year after Professor Janet Hemingway announced Chairman James her intention to retire as Director of LSTM, a two-day event was Ross returned to exceeded £200m for the first time in LSTM’s history. The being organised to mark her forthcoming departure and to look the podium to total surplus for the year was £4.8m and Group net assets back on her achievements as a scientist and Director. announce the establishment of Hosted by BBC Radio 4 Presenter, Professor Jim Al Khalili at the year-end were £50m. the Hemingway OBE FRS, in the beautiful surroundings of the Concert Hall of Fellowship. Liverpool’s St George’s Hall, the afternoon took the audience Reflecting her through Professor Hemingway’s childhood love of animals, her support for early determination at school to study science and her career before Presenter Jim Al-Khalili, Professor Janet Hemingway LSTM Group income totalled £232m (2017: £209m). This of £2m relating to expenditure on Research and Development. career researchers and during her 17-year tenure at LSTM. Beginning with an and Professor Hilary Ranson listening to an audio included £118m (2017: £119m) of ‘gifts in kind’. The gifts in We also received a £1.1m grant from the Wolfson Foundation and desire to attract message from Dr Abdoyoulaye Diabate introduction from LSTM’s Chair of Trustees, James Ross, there kind were pharmaceutical drugs relating to a DFID mass drug relating to expenditure on the Accelerator Building. Excluding the brightest and best were contributions in person and by video from people all over administration programme in several African countries, and these items, our surplus would have been £1.7m which we view to LSTM, the Fellowship will be awarded every three years from the world. mosquito nets used for an insecticide effectiveness study in as satisfactory and which was ahead of our budget. 2019 and will include salary and project seed money. Uganda. Excluding the gifts in kind, LSTM reported a total A recurring theme was Professor Hemingway’s qualities as a On the second day over 200 delegates attended a scientific income of £115m (2017: £90m), which represented a 27% Group net assets at the year-end totalled £50m. Excluding mentor, with Dr Abdoyoulaye Diabate, the group lead of Vector conference in honour of Professor Hemingway by looking at the increase over the previous year.
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