London medical school benefited from colonial exploitation, report finds

The study sets out how the school, founded in 1899, for decades received most of its funding from Britain’s colonies. Photograph: Robert Evans/Alamy

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.