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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Investigating biases in observational studies of inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of COVID-19-related outcomes / Marleen Bokern

🔓 doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04678336

Funding from GSK

We're excited to see the full programme for the London #OpenScience & Scholarship Festival 2026‬. Booking is now open for online and in-person sessions during 20 - 24 April. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

a man in a suit and tie making a funny face while talking to a woman Alt: Ross looking awkward and making a goofy smile whilst nodding at Rachel.

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Two wooden bookcases of book with a sign reading "Book Swap".

Happy #WorldBookDay 🙌📚

Here's our BookSwap where you can find novels, biographies and popular non-fiction in the foyer of the Library here at Keppel Street.

Take home a book or donate books of your own! 📖♻️📖

#WBD2026 📚

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Access in place: navigating services and urban spaces among people who use drugs and are homeless / Praveena Fernes

🔓 doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04678394

Funding from the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission

Interesting thought! You can’t help but wonder what he’d make of the latest high-tech, over-ear, noise-cancelling headphones we have nowadays.

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Causal machine learning for estimating heterogenous treatment effects using time-to-event data / Matthew Pryce

🔓 doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04678395

Funding from the Medical Research Council

two men are sitting next to each other on a couch in a living room . Alt: Ross and Joey sitting in Central Perk, making pained faces in reaction to something which they are clearly finding awkward.

Kinda feel like we've been here before... 😆

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Novel developments and applications of mixed models to synthesize evidence in global health/ Mulick, AR

doi.org/10.17037/PUB...

#globalhealth

Image from LSHTM archives of Ronald Ross's 'ear plugs' or 'ear clips' attached to a thick aluminium strap intended to sit under the chin.

Happy World Hearing Day!👂
Best known for his malaria research, Ronald Ross also devised ‘a device for excluding noise from the auditory nerves of the ear’, in other words, ear plugs. Unfortunately, the device was unsuccessful commercially and ineffective--but shows the importance of ear protection🎧

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Evaluating the impact of SNPs in folate pathway genes to survival of P. falciparum in the presence of sulfadoxine in vitro/ Muwanguzi-Karugaba, J

doi.org/10.17037/PUB...

#Plasmodiumfalciparum

a man is sitting at a table with a caption that says `` i 'll have all the muffins '' . Alt: a man is sitting at a table with a caption that says `` i 'll have all the muffins '' .

Yay for muffins 🙌

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Telephone hotlines for infectious disease outbreaks in Africa/ Fongwen, NT

doi.org/10.17037/PUB...

#infectiousdiseases #Africa

a man is sitting on a couch eating a hamburger while a woman talks to him Alt: GIF of Chandler offering Monica a muffin which he has just licked in 'Friends'.

Ok, so we're running out of cakes at this point... muffin perhaps? 🤔

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

A longitudinal cohort study to investigate the transmission and natural history of ocular Chlamydia Trachomatis in West Arsi zone, Ethiopia/Abdurahman, OS

doi.org/10.17037/PUB...

#Ethiopia #chlamydia

8th March - Happy International Women's Day - Library, Archive & Open Research Services blog For International Women’s Day, we celebrate a selection of books authored/co-edited/co-authored by some of our...

To celebrate International Women's Day (8 March), the library has a display in the Reading Room of selected books authored/edited/co-authored by women from the School.

#InternationalWomen'sDay #8March

blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/library/2026...

a man with blood on his face is sitting at a table with the words `` i 'm not even sorry '' . Alt: GIF of Joey from Friends with lots of food around his face smiling and saying "I'm not even sorry".

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Quantifying immunological memory and optimising immunoprofiling platforms in Plasmodium falciparum malaria / Felix Llanwarne

🔓 doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04678882

Funding from Bloomsbury Colleges PhD Studentships

Great news here from our colleagues @senatehouselib.bsky.social ⬇️

LSHTM students, researchers & staff based in London can access Senate House Library for free, both in person & online 🙌

You'll find info on how to do so via our Moodle pages: ble.lshtm.ac.uk/course/view.... (LSHTM sign-in required)

Beach scene illustration, taken from a 1924 advert. This sketch features people on the coast enjoying the sunshine, wearing typical clothing from the time. A striped tent-like construction can be seen in the background, along with a parasol.

The latest in our Rare Books Blog series features the work of Sir Leonard Hill, who championed the health benefits of open air & sunshine in 1920s England ⛱️

Read all about Hill's main works which feature in our LSHTM Library collection: bit.ly/4qTzMyB #HistMed #PublicHealthHistory #RareBooks #LSHTM

a man and a woman are standing in a kitchen with the words isn 't it beautiful behind them Alt: A scene from "Friends' where Rachel is showing Joey a cake and saying "Look at it... isn't it beautiful?

This has to stop! 🫣

But not today...

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Towards climate resilient health systems: implementation of climate adaptations for health in Western Cape, South Africa / Amanda Quintana

🔓 doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04678913

#SouthAfrica #climate

A colourful mural behind soft orange seating at the entrance to the Education Centre.

Large steps feature on the ground floor of the Education Centre. The steps include plants and power sockets and have been decorated with red lanterns for the Lunar New Year.

Member of the Library, Archive & Open Research Services team listening to a talk about the creative Maker Space room in the Education Centre. The room includes colourful soft seating and sound baffles.

A social area in the Education Centre, featuring various different types of colourful seating for different purposes.

Fantastic to get a tour of the new Education Centre here at LSHTM on our staff day 🙌

Today's theme was Universal Design and it was great seeing this in action with so many varied types of spaces to accommodate student needs.

You'll find more on Universal Design here: universaldesign.org/definition

two men are sitting at a table with plates of food in front of a refrigerator that says " international gourmet " Alt: Joey and Ross from Friends eating cake.

Om nom nom 🍰😋🤤 #Cake

Digital poster showing a conference venue with people sitting around a table and whiteboards in the background. The text in the foreground says "Library Closure - Wednesday 25 February. The Library will be closed all day for Staff Training. Other study areas on the ground floor will be open as usual. We are sorry for any inconvenience." The LSHTM Logo can also be seen.

🚨 We will be closed all day tomorrow - Wednesday 25 February - for staff training & development 🚨

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Other study spaces at Keppel Street and in the LSHTM Education Centre at Tavistock Place will remain available as normal.

Full opening hours here: bit.ly/LSHTMlibrary

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

A historical and ethnographic study of efforts to preserve the efficacy of antitubercular and other antibiotics in South Africa / Raad, R

doi.org/10.17037/PUB...

#SouthAfrica #antibiotics

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Combining data from UK Primary Care electronic health record (EHR) databases: a series of studies exploring cancer risk in Huntington's disease/ Dedman, D J

doi.org/10.17037/PUB...

#huntingtonsdisease #cancer #cancercare

a woman is standing in a doorway holding a door handle . Alt: Ross dropping a cake in 'Friends'.

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