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Imperial College London
Imperial College London was an independent constituent part of the University of London until July 2007 when it was granted a new royal charter declaring it an independent university in its own right. The Rector, Sir Richard Sykes, DSc, FRS, is the College’s academic head and chief executive officer. Sir Roy Anderson, FRS FMedSci, at present the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, will become the next Rector of Imperial College during 2008. The Chairman of the Court and Council is Lord Kerr of Kinlochard.
The Mission
Imperial College embodies and delivers world class scholarship, education and research in science, engineering and medicine, with particular regard to their application in industry, commerce and healthcare. We will foster interdisciplinary working internally and collaborate widely externally.
Formation and History
Imperial College was established in 1907 in London’s scientific and cultural heartland in South Kensington, as a merger of the Royal College of Science, the City and Guilds College and the Royal School of Mines. St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and the National Heart and Lung Institute merged with the College in 1988 and 1995 respectively and Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School merged on 1 August 1997, thereby creating the Faculty of Medicine. The Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology became a Division of the Faculty of Medicine in 2000.
Research
The quality of the College’s research has been judged consistently to be of the highest international standard and the proportion of income from research grants and contracts is one of the highest of any UK university.
The concentration and strength of research in science, engineering and medicine gives the College a unique and internationally distinctive research presence.
Teaching and Learning
The College’s overall educational aim is to ensure a stretching and exhilarating learning experience and, while maintaining its traditional emphasis on single honours degree courses, it also aims to give students the opportunity to broaden their experience through courses relevant to student and employer needs.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is Britain's national school of public health and a leading postgraduate institution in Europe for public health and tropical medicine. Part of the University of London, the London School is an internationally recognized centre of excellence in public health, international health and tropical medicine with a remarkable depth and breadth of expertise. It is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK.
Its environment is a rich multicultural one: every year over 800 students come to the School from 120 countries. Staff are drawn from 37 nationalities.
LSHTM collaborates in research with over 115 countries throughout the world, utilizing our critical mass of multidisciplinary expertise which includes clinicians, epidemiologists, statisticians, social scientists, molecular biologists and immunologists.
The School's focus on the health of populations as a framework for our research and teaching will continue to bring us new opportunities in the UK, in Europe and abroad.
University of Cape Town
The University of Cape Town is consistently rated as the leading University on the continent of Africa. Its mission statement is‘to be an outstanding teaching and research university, educating for life and addressing the challenges facing our society’. This encompasses a commitment to research-based teaching and learning, and critical enquiry in the form of the search for new knowledge and better understanding. The University supported the establishment of the IIDMM in order to facilitate research into the leading infectious causes of death in South Africa and in sub- Saharan Africa as a whole. The three part mission statement of the IIDMM is
- To be an African centre of excellence in which world class scientists using state-of-the-art facilities work together
- To combat the life-threatening infectious diseases of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis
- To address regionally prevalent cancers and genetic diseases
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine - Blantyre - Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and College of Medicine
Founded in 1898, LSTM was the first institution in the world dedicated to research and teaching in tropical medicine. Today, we have an active teaching programme welcoming some 500 students every year from more than 70 countries, a research portfolio spanning every area of tropical medicine and international health and a travel clinic of acknowledged excellence.
LSTM are in the middle of a very intensive programme of expansion, centred around the construction of the new Centre for Tropical and Infectious Diseases, a £23 million state of the art facility for research and development of new drugs and pesticides to combat some of world’s deadliest diseases. The new building will be ready for occupation early in 2008, an exciting time for LSTM and for Liverpool as it begins its year as European Capital of Culture.
Matching our physical expansion, we have grown from 164 staff and a turnover of £7 million in 2001 to 250 staff and a turnover of £22 million last year. We now have more than £100 million of research grants and contracts on our books as we continue to make progress towards our goal of becoming the premier European institution in tropical international health. I hope that you will enjoy finding out more about us and the work that we do.
QECH is the leading teaching hospital in Malawi, with over 1000 in-patient beds and 300 paediatric in-patients. It has the only dedicated paediatric A&E department in the country, reviewing more than 90 000 children a year of whom about 10% are admitted for in-patient care.
Specialist units and wards include:
- Diagnostic radiology services (x-ray, CT and USS - MRI scanner due in 2008)
- Paediatric oncology service – the only one in Malawi
- Specialist malnutrition unit- the largest in Malawi
- General paediatric wards
- Neonatal unit, special care and nursery
- Malaria research ward
The hospital is closely linked with the College of Medicine (COM) in Blantyre and undertakes the clinical training of undergraduate medical students and actively participates in the basic medical science teaching as well.
In 2007 43 students graduated from the College with the numbers expected to rise to 60 and 75 in 2008 and 2009 respectively.
University of Sussex , Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Brighton and Sussex Medical School offers a dynamic, innovative undergraduate programme that will prepare you for a wide range of career opportunities once you have qualified as a doctor.
We also offer research degrees, and taught postgraduate courses aimed at working doctors and senior health professionals.
BSMS is a partnership between the Universities of Brighton and Sussex, and as such, benefits from the universities’ distinctive traditions and shared strengths in biomedical sciences, healthcare and professional education.
We also work closely with the health trust and our collaboration with local hospitals and clinicians gives students an early insight into the practicalities of multidisciplinary team working.
Last updated: August 12th 2008