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The 2024 LSHTM Honorary Fellows are Professor Jane Carlton (Director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute), Professor Laura Rodrigues (Emeritus Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM), and John O’Donnell (former Deputy Chair and Interim Chair of Council at LSHTM).
The British Medical Journal has taken the somewhat extraordinary step of calling on the next UK government to declare a “national health and care emergency".
<p>The government in post after the election should declare a national health and care emergency, calling on all parts of society to help improve health, care, and wellbeing, say experts in the first report of <strong><a href="https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/KeDOCk6Q8sOlMMgc2mL-b?domain=bmj.com" target="_blank">The BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS</a>.</strong></p>
The first report of the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS calls for the declaration of a national health and care emergency and an urgent reset for the NHS Just before the National Health Service began in the UK, Aneurin Bevan, the minister of health in 1948, wrote in The BMJ : “On July 5 there is no reason why the whole of the doctor-patient relationship should not be freed from what most of us feel should be irrelevant to it, the money factor. The picture I have always visualized is one … of a nation deciding to make healthcare easier and more effective by pooling its resources—e...
Prof Nyirenda is currently Deputy Director at the MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Professor of Medicine and Global Non-Communicable Diseases, and Head of the Unit’s Non-Communicable Disease Research theme.His prominent career has ranged from molecular medicine to clinical and public health research, including investigations into non-communicable diseases, particularly around diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. He also has a strong interest in capacity building across Africa.