Blogs

Our joint-president, Professor Margaret Gyapong, reflects on why partnership is so critical to approaching NTDs, and the essential role community plays in making progress equitable and built to last. 

To mark World NTD Day, we spoke with members of our community who work on NTDs. They share reflections on progress made over the past year and the key challenges that continue to shape their work. 

Key questions about the pause to the Early Career Grants Programme, answered.

Highlights from this issue of International Health include a 10-year comparison of regional maternal healthcare in the Philippines and a lesson from mobile malaria workers in Cambodia.

 The first issue of the new year of Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 

January is always a good time to reflect on the past few years as a Society, and our goals for 2026, particularly as we enter the third full year of our current strategy. 

Across our membership, grants, meetings, events and journals, 2025 has been a year defined by connection, growth and impact.

Each year there are common and consistent themes in the reasons that applications are not considered fundable. In this blog, we look at some of these themes and provide top tips on how to prevent making these mistakes.

Collins Ankunda (CA), an RSTMH Early Career Grant awardee, transformed a modest grant into a catalyst for research productivity, leadership growth, and long-term capacity building.

RSTMH has partnered with Sightsavers to publish a new collection of research in the journal International Health, in celebration of the charity’s 75th anniversary.

The December issue of TRSTMH  includes a case study on the difficulties of a leprosy diagnosis in a non-endemic region, as well as an original article about the detection of Toxoplasma gondii from patients diagnosed with nine different cancers.

Highlights this month include a review into integrated vector management that evaluates its effectiveness at reducing the transmission of Malaria; an investigation into whether the biodiversity of predator species can be an effective method to reducing the transmission of new and existing Filovirus in Africa.

Our 2025 Travel Scholars reflect on their time in London - what they learnt, the conversations that inspired them, their experience of presenting their research and the networks they built with fellow researchers from around the world.

Highlights from the latest International Health publication include a systematic review of infertility-related stigma across Africa and a longitudinal study looking at the changing trends in lifestyle and mental health in China, pre-and post-COVID-19.  

The annual World Health Summit brings together international stakeholders from key sectors to inspire solutions for better health and wellbeing for all.

Tamar Ghosh, RSTMH’s Chief Executive, was lucky enough to join more than 150 global leaders, innovators and funders at the Women’s Health Innovation Equity Forum in Berlin, in the run up to the World Health Summit.  

RSTMH members and Fellows are exclusively invited to submit questions for the presenters at our snakebite webinar: Addressing the snakebite challenge: Progress towards the 2030 roadmap. 

RSTMH members are invited to submit questions for Dr Luria Leslie Founou before her keynote at the RSTMH Global Research in Progress meeting on Thursday 19 June 2025. 

We would like RSTMH imagery and brand to reflect how AI, machine learning, and digital technologies more generally are reshaping global health research, surveillance, and service delivery around the world. 

This blog is by Simone Sandiford, Presidents' Fund awardee in 2021, and reflects on her time as an awardee and her RSTMH membership. 

As our only married grant awardees (as far as we are aware), we caught up with Walter and Irene to hear more about their research specialisms and how they balance their family life with busy work lives.  

The event provided the unique opportunity of getting healthcare, global health and tropical medicine experts in one room, alongside those working for NGOs and industry specialists in health AI and technology. In this blog, we share highlights from two days of presentations, conversation and debate. 

During the RSTMH Annual Meeting 2025, we announced the publication of a cross-journal Special Collection 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Global Health', featuring papers from around the world exploring AI and healthcare.

Highlights this month include a comparative study investigating disparities in unmet needs for family planning of urban and rural women in Kano State, Nigeria.

This month’s Editor’s Choice article is a Commentary by Obasanjo Bolarinwa and colleagues, which by focusing on the 2022-2023 Mpox outbreak, and the COVID-19 pandemic before that, draws attention to critical weaknesses in global health equity and structural inequalities in global health governance. 

This month’s Editor’s Choice article is from our ongoing ‘From the Archives’ series, where experts give a commentary and update on a paper from the Transactions archives.

Join us online for the next RSTMH Global Research in Progress meeting on Thursday 19 June 2025. This free Zoom event highlights early-career researchers presenting unpublished work in tropical medicine and global health.

In this month’s Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (TRSTMH), highlights include a Review article on the burden of mycetoma in Burkina Faso and an evaluation of suitability of two types of diagnostic tools for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Argentina.

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’.

RSTMH Grants Manager, Greta Holmes looks at the applications to the 2025 Early Career Grants programme.

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.  

On World Neglected Disease Day (World NTD Day) 2025, RSTMH hosted a webinar on the topic of climate change, malaria, and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), in collaboration with The World Health Organization Task Team on Climate Change, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Malaria. We have published the recording of the webinar below. 

Clara Wiederkehr Bruno, RSTMH/JCPET Early Career Grant 2022 Awardee, explains in this blog how receiving an RSTMH Early Career Grant opened the way for the start of her research career. 

We are delighted to share a collection of articles published in RSTMH's Journals, Transactions and International Health by some of our grant awardees from previous cohorts.

RSTMH/NIHR Early Career Grant Awardee 2023, Dr Mahamadou Kante, writes about his own experiences with the grant and his research project, which went on to him publishing his research in BMJ Open.

Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (TRSTMH) was founded in 1908 and offers a respected voice for clinicians, health-related scientists, development organisations and students.