London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

 (LSHTM or the London School of Economics and informal), University College London in the composition of the Federal School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Mr. Patrick Manson was founded in 1899, the London School of Economics, Public Health, International Health and Tropical Medicine Research Center led by outstanding graduate students. The school's mission is the pursuit of excellence in research, postgraduate teaching, at the national and international public health and tropical medicine advanced training to improve global health contribution, and in these areas to inform policy and practice.


School founded in 1899, Sir Patrick Manson and the Albert Dock in London in the London Docklands Seamen's Hospital School of Tropical Medicine. Tropical Medicine have begun teaching in Edinburgh in 1899 or earlier off-campus school in London, Livingstone College, founded in 1893 by Charles F. Harford Battersby (1865-1925). St. George's Hospital in London, talks before, in 1895, Livingstone College to give Manson his first opportunity to teach courses in tropical medicine.

Dr. Manson's early career in the Far East, he correctly deduced the reason filariasis, a parasitic disease vectors, spread by mosquito bites. On his return to London, he was appointed medical consultant Colonial Office. He firmly believes that doctors should be a British colony Tropical Medicine, managers and other tropical training in the treatment of the British Empire. He also encouraged during this period, mentoredRonald Ross found that the correct cause of malaria, Ross subsequently discovered in 1898, his efforts to win the Nobel Prize. The original school was identified as part of seafarers Hospital Association.


In 1920, schools, hospitals Tropical Endsleigh Gardens in central London as the hospital staff during World War I, the hotel over the previous year. 1921, Athlone Institute of Medicine Committee recommended the establishment of national, the Rockefeller Foundation, recommended the development of London-based organization, which will result in the promotion of public health and tropical medicine world. Expansion of the school, now named London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Institute in 1924 was awarded a Royal Charter.