RSTMH Annual Meeting 2025: AI in Global Health
Thursday 25 & Friday 26 September 2025
All delegates will have access to abstract presentations, networking sessions, and plenary talks as part of a two-day programme on AI in Global Health.
- Learn from senior experts across global health, research, and policy on how AI is shaping the future of the field
- Hear from global experts on AI’s impact across health systems
- Join Q&As and interactive panel discussions
- Connect with peers and speakers in dedicated networking sessions
- Share your views to help shape RSTMH’s future priorities
This is an in-person event taking place at Coin Street, SE1, London UK.
Speakers
Speakers confirmed so far include:
- Professor Olufemi O. Adewole, Professor/Consultant Physician and Pulmonologist, Obafemi Awolowo University
- Professor Olaoluwa Pheabian Akinwale, Nigerian Institute of Medical Research
- Professor Rifat Atun, Professor of Global Health Systems, Harvard
- Dr Buddha Basnyat, Chairman of the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Nepal
- Dr Danielle Belgrave, VP Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, GSK
- Dr Charles Cleland, ophthalmologist and clinical research fellow, International Centre for Eye Health, LSHTM
- Professor Gail Davey, Former RSTMH President
- Professor Nick Day, Transactions Editor in Chief
- Dr Luca Ferretti, Oxford Big Data
- Professor Margaret Gyapong, Professor of Applied Health Social Science and Global Health
- Professor John O. Gyapong, Secretary General, African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA)
- Dr Wendy Harrison, Chief Executive Officer, Unlimit Health
- Professor Sanjay Kinra, Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Honorary Consultant in Public Health at the Department of Health and Social Care
- Carleigh Krubiner, Bioethics Lead, Wellcome
- Professor Kathryn Maitland, Professor of Paediatric Tropical Infectious Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine and Director of the ICARE Centre at the Global Centre of Health Innovation, Imperial College, London
- Dr Rohit Malpani, Consultant on AI in health, AMR, and access to medicines
- Julia McDonnell, Director of Journal Product, Oxford University Press
- Dr Emily McMullen, Senior Research Fellow (visiting), King's College London
- Dr Stefanie Meredith, International Health Editor In Chief
- Dr Gita Khalili Moghaddam, Principal Investigator, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge
- Professor Chris Parry, Tropical Medicine at the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford
- Jen Perkins MSF AI Accelerator, Programme Manager
- Dr Bhargavi Rao, Strategic Lead for Research, Médecins Sans Frontières and Associate Professor in Humanitarian Health, LSHTM
- Dr Sarah Rafferty, International Stakeholder Engagement Lead, UK Office for National Statistics
- Professor Liam Smeeth, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
- Dr Divya Srivastava, Senior Lecturer, City St George's Univeristy of London
- Dr Hannah Taylor, UK Biobank
- Professor Louise Thwaites, Associate Professor, clinical researcher and member of the Emerging Infections group at OUCRU and Associate Professor in the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health at the University of Oxford
- Dr Craig Tipple, Medical Director, DNDi
- Professor George M. Varghese, Professor and Head of Department of Infectious Diseases, CMC Vellore
- Dr Sian White, Erlha
- Dr Peiling Yap, Chief Scientist, HealthAI - The Global Agency for Responsible AI in Health
