Blogs

RSTMH reflects on the nominees for, and winners of, our medals and awards in recent years, to consider how we can best represent our worldwide community. 

In this personal perspective, Lawabien Osée Joyce Toé, PhD Student in Emerging Vector-borne Disease, reflects on field experiences in Burkina Faso to highlight the growing importance of ticks as vectors of disease

In recognition of World Malaria Day 2026, RSTMH is sharing a Special Collection of articles from International Health and Transactions on the theme Driven to End Malaria: Now We Can. Now We Must.

The fourth issue of 2026 of Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

The third issue of 2026 of Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Highlights from this issue of International Health include a study investigating the correlation between ozone exposure and preterm births and insights from lived experiences of mental health issues of Bangladeshi children, and the barriers impacting their care.

To mark International Women’s Day, we spoke to three of our members who are all global health researchers at different career stages. They told us about their research into women’s health, as well as the ways that gender has impacted their careers.

The Essential Care Package (ECP) provides governments, health leaders, and frontline services with clear guidance on integrating mental health support and stigma reduction into existing NTD programmes and health systems, including prevention, identification, assessment, management, and follow-up.

The second issue of 2026 of Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Isabella Hubbard and Dr Michel Dugon explore the underestimated issue of scorpion envenomation and question whether scorpionism should be recognised by the WHO as a neglected tropical disease.

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.

Last month RSTMH CEO, Tamar Ghosh, was lucky enough to be able to attend ASTMH, to be a part of some incredible keynote and panel sessions, meet colleagues and make new connections.    

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.

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. 

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.  

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. 

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 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.  

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.