As a registered charity in Liverpool, United Kingdom, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) is a higher education institution that is dedicated to the research and teaching in tropical medicine. As the first institution in the world dedicated to these types of researches, they hold a reputation for excellence and advancement in global health.

The institution’s mission is to reduce mortality in disease epidemic countries and mitigate the burden of sickness through effective interventions to improve human health. LSTM has a research portfolio of £220 million and receives their funding from bigger charitable groups like the Wellcome Trust, DFID and the biggest foundation in the world, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Their first expedition took place in the country of Sierra Leone in 1899 and in that same location, they opened their first overseas research laboratory in 1921.

LSTM partners with various governmental and international organizations and industries to help put research as a center in health and development. As of 2013, they have partnered with several organizations for their projects in over 70 countries around the world. They now have a broad portfolio of translational and basic research in infectious diseases and public health research. To further broaden the scope of their research, they have divided the school into four major departments: Clinical Sciences, Vector Biology, Public Health and Parasitology. In addition, they also have five crosscutting themes overlaid on these four departments, namely Center for Applied Health Research and Delivery, Capacity Development, Center for Health in the Eastern Mediterranean, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Evidence-based Medicine.

A local ship owner started this charitable institution in 1898. Sir Alfred Lewis Jones set up the School of Tropical Medicine to check on the causes of the tropical diseases that traders brought to Liverpool. The region was a prominent port city and traders from overseas flock the city. Together with local businesses and medical practitioners, they investigated on these outbreaks. 

When 2014 started, LSTM houses the these research consortia: PERFORM, ReBUILD, T-REC, Effective Health Care Research Consortium, Center for Neglected Tropical Diseases and AVECNET.