London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Celebrates Distance Learning Success - 14 April 2010

The huge success of the Distance Learning Programme from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine was celebrated recently at the School building in Keppel Street with a party, followed the next day by the graduation ceremony. The School's Dean of Studies Sharon Huttly explains what all the excitement was about, while LSHTM Director, Andy Haines, discusses the need for effective distance learning to fulfil global goals for public health. The guest speaker, Professor Fred Binka, Dean of the University of Ghana School of Public Health — and recipient the same weekend of the prestigious Ronald Ross Medal awarded in recognition of his distinguished contributions to tropical medicine — adds his reflections on the importance of having a method of learning which does not require students to leave their jobs or their countries.