London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

In line with Reckitt's commitment to advancing health, hygiene, and supporting women in science, we are thrilled to showcase the outstanding research contributions of our four PhD students.

The Weaning Food Hygiene Behaviours research study, led by Jenala Chipungu, a PhD student under the Reckitt-LSHTM Scholarship programme, is a pioneering effort to enhance food hygiene practices in low-income settings.

GSK generously provided 35 full scholarships for students from sub-Saharan Africa to access courses, enabling emerging clinicians and researchers across 20 sub-Saharan African countries to take part.

Kimberly Morren and Meike Siemonsma (research interns at the Nutrition and Planetary Health Theme of MRCG) raised money for The Gambia Patient Access Fund at the MRC Unit The Gambia (MRCG) by selling postcards.

Reckitt supports four incredible female PhD students, who are working on health and hygiene research projects across Sub-Saharan Africa. The four doctoral students have a shared vision to research and help transform the landscape of health and cleanliness in Sub-Saharan communities. 

Long-standing LSHTM partner and supporter GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) welcomed the 2022-23 recipients of the GSK Scholarship for Future Health Leaders. 

Scholarships are transformational, have the capacity to change the lives of the students who receive them, and alleviate the financial burden of study for talented and motivated recipients. 

The Patient Access Fund has been established to enable the LSHTM community to support healthcare professionals working on the ground to provide high-quality affordable healthcare to local patients at MRC Unit The Gambia.

At LSHTM, we believe that personal finance should not be a barrier to training talented nurses who want to make a difference and improve health, both within their communities and globally. 

Meenakshi Monga is the 2022 LSHTM Fund Scholar, enabling her to achieve an MSc in Nutrition for Global Health and fulfil her desire to harness nutrition as a tool that can improve health and wellbeing worldwide.

Dr Sultana Khanum attended LSHTM in the 1980s after receiving a scholarship, and later went on to complete her PhD at our School. Sultana’s impactful career has focused on tackling child malnutrition in low-income settings. She also founded and runs the LSHTM Alumni Chapter in Bangladesh.

Each year, your support funds our LSHTM Fund Scholarship so an exceptional student can study at our School. We caught up with this year’s scholar, Dr Maria Rauf Jaswal, who is studying for her MSc in Public Health for Development.

Our COVID-19 Response Fund has been deployed to a number of highly innovative research projects led by some of our most talented emerging researchers. These research projects are an opportunity to test new ideas, innovate and make new discoveries to better understand the pandemic and its impact.

The Jeroen Ensink Memorial Fund supports students from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia who are committed to improving public health in developing countries and wish to undertake the MSc Public Health for Development course.

Gifts to the LSHTM touch every aspect of teaching and work, from providing scholarships and bursaries to students, to advancing research through the creation of new academic posts and facilities. Your help has also been vital in delivering our response to the COVID-19 outbreak. 

Staff, alumni, members of the public and friends of LSHTM have raised funds by partaking in a range of activities and in doing so, contributed to research into debilitating illnesses, scholarships and travel grants for the next generation of public health professionals. 

Dr Sumit Grover is a current student from Northern India with a passion for improving eye care. His work as an ophthalmologist in rural communities in India is what inspired him to pursue an MSc in Public Health for Eye Care at LSHTM.

The COVID-19 Response Fund is supporting a project led by Dr Rebecca Meiskin, a Research Fellow in Social Science at LSHTM, implementing research insight to raise awareness of the challenges and stresses of social distancing. 

The MBI Al Jaber Foundation has announced a significant donation towards the construction of a new research facility at LSHTM that will have a focus on epidemiology and infectious diseases. 

We are proud to be using the COVID-19 Response Fund to support an innovative communications campaign, emphasising the importance of handwashing and social distancing.

We have worked closely with our alumni and supporters to create scholarships for deserving students who would otherwise not be able to afford the cost of studying at LSHTM. 

We have joined forces with Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology and PT Astra International Tbk to collaborate through a new Centre of Excellence in the field of dengue research.

Thanks to the support of donor Tony McClellan, our award-winning Young Scientists Programme is inspiring future global health leaders to improve health equity around the world.

The Helena Vrbová Scholarship gives much needed financial support to at least one student a year, enabling them to undertake an international research project. 

The GSK scholarships will support the next generation of global health leaders.

Research and travel grants help our MSc students embark on ambitious research projects, in laboratory facilities and out in the field.

The UK ME/CFS Biobank represents a new venture for LSHTM and the first disease-specific ME/CFS biobank in Europe.

 Jasmine Burton received a scholarship from the American Friends of LSHTM to help her pursue a career in public health.

In Their Own Voices is a pioneering project that explores the perspectives of women affected by FGM.