RSTMH Annual Meeting
Panel on the Impact of AI on Universities and Research Groups. From left to right: Professor John Gyapong, Professor Olaoluwa Pheabian Akinwale, Professor Liam Smeeth, Dr Buddha Basnyat and Dr Sarah Rafferty.
The RSTMH Annual Meeting brings together members, Fellows, and supporters from around the world to share knowledge, hear about the latest research and ideas, and encourage new collaborations.
This year the theme of the meeting will be Equitable Partnerships in Global Health.
We are delighted to announce the Scientific Committee for this year’s meeting are Co-Chairs Professor Sir David Mabey and Professor Olaoluwa Pheabian Akinwale, and Scientific Committee Members Professor Liz Ashley,Professor Patty Garcia and Tijana Williams.
Call for Abstracts Now Open
We welcome abstract submissions from individuals at all career stages and across a diverse range of disciplines and sectors in global health.
Deadline for applications: Friday 19 June, 12:00PM BST
We invite abstracts that reflect the diversity of partnerships shaping research, policy, and practice, including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- South–South partnerships, led by and embedded within low‑ and middle‑income countries
- North–South collaborations, including long‑standing and evolving partnerships between governments, research institutes, funders, and civil society.
- Community–academic partnerships, highlighting the respective strengths and expertise of academic institutions and community partners to achieve health equity.
- Public–private collaborations, including partnerships between NGOs, product development partnerships, industry, and global health organisations
- Research institutes, universities, and policy makers, including collaborations with Ministries of Health, WHO Collaborating Centres and national or regional authorities
- NGOs and Ministries of Health, particularly examples of implementing, scaling, or sustaining programmes in tropical medicine and global health
We welcome abstracts that address:
- How equitable partnerships are formed, governed, and sustained
- Trust, authorship, leadership, and capacity‑sharing within collaborations
- Practical lessons learned from equitable and inequitable partnerships
- The role of partnerships in responding to health issues in low-resource settings. This encompasses communicable and non-communicable diseases, climate change, emerging diseases, health system strengthening and other areas of global health.
Submissions describing research, policy, implementation, evaluation, or reflective practice are all encouraged. We particularly encourage submissions that describe research that has been conducted, including results or outcomes, alongside reflections on how partnerships enabled, shaped, or strengthened the work. Abstracts should go beyond describing collaborations in principle and highlight what was achieved through partnership, the roles played by different partners, and lessons learned for equitable global health practice.
The Committee particularly welcomes submissions that demonstrate collaboration across regions, disciplines, and sectors, and that advance equity within global health.
We look forward to receiving abstracts that will help shape more equitable partnerships in global health.
Deadline for applications: Friday 19 June, 12:00PM BST
Travel Scholarships 2026 Applications Now Open
We are pleased to offer a small number of travel scholarships for current RSTMH members and Fellows to attend and present at the meeting.
Applications are welcomed from individuals at all career stages, particularly those who have submitted an abstract for either an oral or poster presentation at the Annual Meeting. Please note RSTMH members and Fellows have to be logged into the RSTMH website to access the travel scholarship application form.
Janet Hemingway is Professor of Vector Biology at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She is also a Senior Technical Advisor on Neglected Tropical Diseases for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and has 38 years’ experience working on the biochemistry and molecular biology of specific enzyme systems associated with xenobiotic resistance.
