News & Blog All the latest news and blogs from RSTMH and the world of tropical medicine and global health.
2025 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme opens for applications The 2025 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme is now open for applications. Last year the Programme provided 299 grants to those early in their careers to carry out their first piece of research into tropical medicine or global health. 20 Feb 2025
Snakebite Special Issue published on World NTD Day Today, on World Neglected Tropical Disease Day, RSTMH has published a Special Issue on ‘Addressing the snakebite challenge - progress towards the 2030 roadmap’ in its journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine. 30 Jan 2025
2024 Student Essay Prize Winner announced We are excited to announce the winner of our 2024 Student Essay Prize, now in its sixth year. 23 Jan 2025
ICTMM 2028 date and venue announced We are excited to announce the date and venue for the 22nd International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, which the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene will be hosting in Liverpool, UK in 2028. 28 Nov 2024
Round-up: 2025 Early Career Grants Programme applications In this blog, RSTMH Grants Manager Greta Holmes looks at the applications to this year's Early Career Grants programme – another record-breaking year for applications. 30 May 2025
Malaria, helminths, and other health challenges among street children and youths in Cameroon Valerie Makoge, Early Career Grant 2021 awardee and RSTMH Global Assessor, recently published an article in International Health titled ‘Unveiling the hidden health challenges: malaria, helminths, STIs and other pathologies among street children, adolescents and young adults in Cameroon’. In this blog, she summarises the key findings. 30 May 2025
Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 5, May 2025 In this month’s Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, Editor’s Choice article is a paper by J M R P Bandara and colleagues, which demonstrates systematically the lack of evidence for plasma exchange in this severe and often fatal complication of leptospirosis. 15 May 2025
International Health: Volume 17, Issue 3, May 2025 Highlights in the latest International Health include a cross-sectional study of point-of-care lactate testing in integrated community care management (ICCM) for children with acute respiratory illness in rural Uganda; an assessment of the prevalence of trachoma in the Adamaoua regions of Cameroon; and an economic modelling analysis evaluating the cost-effectiveness of the Cy-Tb skin test for latent tuberculosis infection in India. 15 May 2025