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ANNUAL REPORT 2004-2005 Mission Statement LIVERPOOL SCHOOL of TROPICAL MEDICINE ANNUAL REPORT 2004-2005 Mission Statement As a centre of excellence, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, through the creation of effective links with governments, organisations and institutions and by responding to the health needs of communities, aims to promote improved health, particularly for people of the less developed countries in the tropics and sub-tropics by: • providing and promoting high quality education and training; • conducting first class research and disseminating the results of that research; • developing systems and technologies for health care and assisting in their transfer and management; • providing appropriate consultancy services; In fulfilling this mission the School also provides a clinical service of acknowledged excellence. LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE Affiliated to the University of Liverpool Contents Page 2 Chairman’s Foreword 3 Director’s Report 4 Treasurer’s Report 5 Fundraising 6-7 Vector Control - new approaches to old problems - DNA 8-9 Vector Control - new approaches to old problems - Insecticides 10-11 Vector Control - new approaches to old problems - Genome 12-13 Vector Control - new approaches to old problems - Urban Transmission 14 HIV/AIDS & STI Knowledge Programme 15 Malaria Knowledge Programme 16 Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium 17 EQUI TB Knowledge Programme 18 Lymphatic Filariasis Support Centre 19 Ethics Committee 20-21 LATH 22-23 Sixty Years Ago 24 Donald Mason Library 25 Gates Malaria Partnership 26 DTM & H - 1st 100 Years 27 International Training in Health Systems Management 28-29 Retirements - Farewell 30 Education and Training 31 Student Numbers 32-33 Research Grants and Contracts 34 Student Profiles 35 Staff Profiles 36 Officers 2004-2005 37 Academic & Academic related Staff 2003-2004 38-39 Brief Highlights 40 Out with the Old, in with the New Printed by Printfine Limited Liverpool - 0151 242 0000 1 Chairman s Foreword This has been a year of strong the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen maintain a balance across all spheres of progress across the whole School, University Hospital where they deal with work. capped by the recent news that HIV/AIDs, TB, malaria and other diseases the funding for the urgently that require their special expertise. A This great expansion is what the Director needed new building has been similar service is provided to babies and promised when she started four years agreed. Additionally, €17.5 million children at Alder Hey Hospital, and we ago, and the Trustees applaud her single- are proud of our joint working relationship minded determination and energetic has been awarded by the with the NHS, in a world where infections leadership in bringing it about. She has European Union to develop new cross all borders and countries. inspired her team and the staff and we anti-malarial drugs, and the Bill look forward to a vastly better housed and and Melinda Gates Foundation is The £1 million upgrading of the teaching yet more globally famous and useful making an award of $51 million laboratories and lecture theatres, has Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. over five years to develop new provided staff and students alike with malaria and dengue control tools. state-of-the-art multi-media facilities, plus Thanks are due also to the Bursar for more comfortable working environments. much improved clearer systems, financial The year under review has seen the The Nuffield Lecture Theatre, in particular, reporting and management. Trustees, research base of the School continue to now has facilities for wheelchair bound Rob Macfarlane, Chairman of Finance develop very strongly, with research persons in keeping with the School s plan Committee, Simon Sherrard, Vice- projects covering a wide variety of to improve access to, and for, disabled Chairman of the Board and Chairman of diseases being funded from different persons. Coincident with the new the Audit Committee have played very sources — all of which bodes well for the facilities, the School has introduced new important parts in guiding and overseeing stability and health of the School, and courses on humanitarian assistance, and these vital aspects of the School s builds on its pre-eminent reputation in the pioneering one-year Diploma in UK governance; as has William Fulton, combating tropical diseases. Medicine course, to equip refugee doctors Chairman of the Nominations and to be able to practise here, has Governance Committee, in helping to Other spheres of work have also successfully completed its second batch implement the new and streamlined flourished this year. Liverpool Associates of training. Regrettably, student numbers Board of Trustees, following the thorough in Tropical Health (LATH) is the wholly- on some courses have declined, and review this time last year by Lawrence owned subsidiary of the School and is its despite scholarships, it is clear that Holden. Modern systems of recruiting consultancy arm. From its new bigger students from poorer countries are finding new Trustees to the Board, and Vice- premises LATH has enhanced its it harder to afford to come to Liverpool to Presidents to the School, have been reputation, built up over eighteen years, study and learn. Over its history the introduced. We are immensely grateful to as implementer of research findings and School has trained an enormous number all who served on the old Council that modern thinking in health development in of professionals from all over the came to an end at the AGM last a great number of countries. Its success developing world, some of whom have December, and to the new Board of has been to provide the professional help risen to positions of great responsibility, Trustees which was inaugurated at the needed to put into practice schemes and many at Government level in their own same time. Throughout the changes and services with local partners, and also to countries. The reputation of the School all the other exciting new and bigger contribute an unprecedented level of has, in large part, been built on this ventures we are grateful for the very financial covenant to the School. It is continuous flow of students, and the experienced and wise guidance and help indeed a vital and highly respected part of development of long-term relationships. from our President, Sir Mark Moody- the School Group . Our thanks go to the The management is now undertaking a Stuart, and the Vice-Presidents. growing team — as well as all the regular review of how to continue these School staff, clinical and non clinical, relationships in the most effective way, so Finally, as the School is the sum of its whom it borrows - and in particular to that we maintain our teaching base in a students and staff, I should like to thank the LATH Director John McCullough, and new climate. and pay tribute to all of them for their to the LATH Chairman Nick Earlam for commitment to the great traditions of the their astute business guidance of the Nevertheless, research is clearly School, but also for enthusiastically expanding company. becoming much the largest part of the embracing the great changes and School s business. We are proud of this opportunities we now have - to do more Clinical services continue to be a highly much enlarged role the School will play in and better. The arcticles in this Annual valued and well used part of the School, finding a way to combat the causes of so Report give you the chance to learn about both locally and regionally. The famous much ill-health and misery in the a very successful year just gone, and travel clinic is full to overflowing, and developing world, but we also remain something of the challenges to come. despite recent upgrading, needs more committed to our other strands in work: in space. The School s clinicians carry out teaching, technical assistance and clinical Rosemary Hawley regular ward rounds and clinics on the services, and we value highly the staff Tropical and Infectious Diseases wards of working in these areas, and want to 2 Director s Report This year has been an exciting These two awards, along with the The coming year is obviously going to be one for the School. We have continued buoyancy of research grants a challenging one for the School. We will continued to develop our from other sources, will allow the School strive to get our new major programmes research, teaching and technical to enter the next major phase of its up and running to ensure that they allow activities, and we are well on track development with confidence. us to continue to translate our vibrant to achieving our goal of doubling research programmes into practical in size over the five year planning In December the construction of our new interventions that make a real difference period. building, the Centre for Tropical and to the control of disease throughout the Infectious Diseases (CTID), will start. tropics. I am sure that our staff, The graph below shows our financial This has been made possible by two stakeholders and supporters will rise to growth over the last 10 years (adjusted major awards from the European Union this challenge. by the retail price index). This growth has (ERDF) and North West Development been achieved despite the loss of one of Agency (NWDA), alongside contributions our major DFID contracts, an event which from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool Janet Hemingway five years ago would have been City Council and many private catastrophic for the School. There have, benefactors. The new building will however, been major successes with transform the School, allowing it to DFID, including the renewal of the expand into modern purpose-built Effective Health Care Alliance premises that reflect its status as one of Programme and the Lymphatic Filariasis the premier Schools of Tropical Medicine.
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