Annual Report 2013 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel Street London WC1E 7HT United Kingdom [email protected] www.lshtm.ac.uk Made from 100% recycled paper ISBN 978-0-9576833-0-3 © December 2013 Improving health worldwide Improving health worldwide London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Active web addresses, links Click on the contents to Annual Report 2013 1 and emails are underlined. jump to the page you want Foreword The urgent challenges Our continent is Although more of the world’s seven billion people are living longer and healthier lives than ever, we face many urgent challenges. The inexorable tide of non-communicable we now face in developing rapidly. We diseases, the emergence of antibiotic-resistance, the threat of new pandemics, and the health can only be are making significant health impacts of conflict and climate change, are all ‘wicked problems’ that impose severe burdens on health services, systems and societies, locally and globally. met by intelligent, progress in controlling The School’s mission is to help address these challenges, through our research, co‑ordinated infectious diseases, education and innovation. To achieve this, we work collaboratively with hundreds of responses, informed and meeting old and partners all over the world, ranging from governments and international agencies to local clinics and community groups. by applied research Professor Dame Sally Davies new challenges by Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus This report provides a brief overview of the School’s recent work, and a glimpse of Chief Medical Officer, the Foreign Minister and former that builds the investing in our health, the future. It has been a year of healthy growth across all areas of activity, and many UK Government’s principal Minister of Health, Ethiopia; achievements by individuals and the School as a whole. For example, our postgraduate medical adviser and Chief Alumnus and Honorary evidence base research and science programmes – both London-based and distance learning – were commended by the Scientific Adviser for the Fellow of the School UK’s Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, and in October the School was for effective health Department of Health infrastructure, with the Sir Tim Lankester named by the compilers of a global league table as the world’s leading research- practice focused support of funders and focused graduate school – which reflects the growing recognition our work is receiving. on public need.” partners globally.” I hope you will take a few minutes to read this review, and that you find it enjoyable and inspiring. With the National Institute for Health Research, Policy Research Units, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a key partner and other partnerships, we are developing a research infrastructure that in this work, and is helping national and local governments, universities Our vision is to be a taps into world-class academic resources, and the London School of and hospitals strengthen their research and capacity, and exchange world‑leading school of public Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is a key partner in these initiatives. knowledge and expertise. and global health, working Through its collaborative work with the National Health Service, Public I am honoured to be associated with this world-leading institution, Sir Tim Lankester, Chair of Council Health England, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, local and I know from personal experience how dedicated the School’s staff, closely with partners in the government and NGOs, the School is making many vital contributions students and alumni are – conducting research and taking practical UK and worldwide to address to public health, from laboratory research in infectious diseases to action that saves lives and improves health worldwide. contemporary and future advising on implementation of interventions, and health service and policy evaluations. critical health challenges. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in Contents the UK and worldwide; working Making an impact: now and for the long term 2 in partnership to achieve 1 2 3 4 5 6 excellence in public and global Improving health worldwide: sub-Saharan Africa 4 health research, education Excellence and impact 6 and translation of knowledge into policy and practice. Improving health worldwide: United Kingdom 8 Knowledge translation and innovation 10 7 8 9 10 11 12 World no. 1 research‑ 2013: the year in review 12 focused graduate school In 2013, the School was named Faculty review: Epidemiology and Population Health 14 the world’s top research-focused graduate school in the Times Faculty review: Infectious and Tropical Diseases 16 Higher Education world rankings. Faculty review: Public Health and Policy 18 1 Maintaining the Momentum: Professor Piot 3 Research at the School has generated over 6 The bicentenary of John Snow, founder 9 ‘SASA!’ is a five-year project to stop violence and panellists at a seminar held at the 2,200 items of media coverage in 2013, of modern epidemiology, celebrated at against women and reduce HIV risk in Uganda School in June to launch the World Health double that in the previous year the School 10 In March, despite snow, we hosted our largest Education: teaching and learning 20 Organization report on AIDS in Europe, 4 The Olympics and regeneration in East London 7 Manga-style comic created by Ian Roberts Graduation Day ever co-authored by Tim Rhodes and colleagues project is investigating the health legacy of to demonstrate the benefits of tranexamic 11 The Keppel Street Building and gardens In 2009, the School became the 2 The GOAL Trial is examining the effectiveness the 2012 Games among local people acid in emergency medicine in Spring of the Generation Skillz programme for first academic institution in the People and resources 22 5 PEEK in practice, working with Maasai 8 Malaria intervention trials in Tororo, Uganda, 12 Peter Piot and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, reducing risk behaviour among 15–18 year old communities in Kenya courtesy Helen Allwood, Malaria Capacity world to be awarded the Gates boys and girls in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth the School’s Patron, at the launch of the Development Consortium Director’s Circle at Buckingham Palace Award for Global Health by the Global Health Council Management and governance 24 © Copyright London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 2013 Photography: LSHTM/Anne Koerber, iStockphoto, Shutterstock unless otherwise credited. ISBN 978-0-9576833-0-3 2 Making an impact: now and for the long term London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Making an impact: now and for the long term Annual Report 2013 3 Making an impact: now and for the long term Honours and awards 2013 Our students · Anne Mills elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Peter Piot, Director have continued · Polly Roy and Brendan Wren receive to excel academically Wellcome Trust senior investigator s a postgraduate and research This year, the School and on graduating, to awards, and Alex Mold wins junior investigator award. institution we are not included was named the secure excellent jobs in most university league tables. · Neil Pearce, Andrew Prentice and However, this year the School was world’s leading research- and placements in Anthony Scott elected Fellows of named the world’s ‘leading research- focused graduate school their chosen fields” the Academy of Medical Sciences. Afocused graduate school’ by Thomson Reuters and Times Higher Education. by Thomson Reuters and · Andy Hall received a knighthood in the As well as achieving the best overall score, Queen’s birthday honours’ list. coming top of a table ahead of elite global Times Higher Education” · Clare Gilbert wins Pisart Vision Award institutions, we were ranked particularly in recognition of her work on prevention highly for indicators including international outlook, research and citations. of childhood blindness. · Nick Black awarded a Career Achievement Impact is long-term and notoriously hard Prize in recognition of his contribution to measure. This year, the new Research to advancing the use of patient reported Professor Baron Peter Piot, Director Excellence Framework has required us to outcome measures and along with Ben evaluate and document the wider societal Goldacre, named in the inaugural Clinical benefits of our work. Although the process Leaders list by Health Service Journal. has been time-consuming, it is a good discipline for academics to assess and · Peter Piot communicate the many benefits of our work, Income from research grants increased awarded the as it is only by so doing that we can win over 10% this year to £79 million, as set Hideyo Noguchi wider public understanding and support, out in on page 23. Of this total, UK, EU Africa Prize as well as sustained funding. and US government departments and for Medical agencies contributed nearly half of this total, Research In October this year, I attended a centennial with another 45% coming from charitable by Japan’s anniversary celebration for the UK Medical sources, including the Wellcome Trust and Prime Minister Research Council at the Royal Society, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Shinzo Abe which School researchers Austin Bradford Hill, (right). Jerry Morris and Brian Greenwood were among This year, we received an excellent report distinguished MRC-supported scientists of on the quality of our education programmes the past 100 years. This highlighted how from the UK Quality Assurance Agency, and Our students have continued to excel In London, we joined UCLPartners, contributing globalisation, the threat of antibiotics and we have contributed to the excellence of in the autumn achieved a significant increase academically and on graduating, to secure to the successful bid for a new Academic emerging epidemics, over-consumption and British science, and thanks to the quality in student enrolments, with numbers of excellent jobs and placements in their chosen Health Sciences Centre, and continued to the tsunami of chronic diseases.