The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) supported and directly benefited from the British empire’s exploitation and subjugation of colonised countries, according to a report on its history.
The study sets out how the school, founded in 1899, for decades received most of its funding from Britain’s colonies, particularly those in Africa, and colonial companies, but its medical research only benefited white people.
The original mission of the school was to reduce the costs to British taxpayers of replacing colonial officers who contracted, sometimes fatally, diseases such as malaria, rather than improving the health of colonised Indigenous populations, the report explains.
