Wellcome Tropical Institute

The following is an interim description which may change when detailed cataloguing takes place in future:

Reports of activities undertaken during Wellcome Tropical Institute Fellowships, and information about distance learning programmes, including test papers and questionnaires. Also includes information on workshops run by the Wellcome Tropical Institute as well as reports, publications, and correspondence.

1985-1992

12 transfer boxes

The Wellcome Tropical Institute was founded in 1985 as a successor to the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science, focussing on tropical medicine. The main purpose of the Institute was to provide a resource for teaching tropical medicine and public health throughout the world.

In 1989 the Wellcome Trust decided to disband the Wellcome Tropical Museum and discontinue funding the tropical distance learning programme established in 1987. Other functions of the Institute continued under the name Wellcome Tropical Resource.

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