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RSTMH is excited to announce the winner of our 2025 Student Essay Prize, now in its seventh year. 

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) announces a pause to the opening of its 2026 Early Career Grants Programme.

RSTMH is developing a new journal looking at Artificial Intelligence and Global Health, which will be launching in early 2026

RSTMH has announced the winners of the 2025 Medals and Awards programme.

It was announced at the RSTMH Annual Meeting 2025 that Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong will continue their leadership, with a second year as joint Presidents. 

Simon Bush, RSTMH president in 2022-2023 and trustee for ten years, has been awarded an OBE in King Charles III’s birthday honours, in recognition of his services to eliminating neglected tropical diseases. 

The winner of our 2024 Student Essay Prize was Will Matupi.

The 2025 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme closed for applications on 12:00 PM BST (midday) on Wednesday 14 May 2025.

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.

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong have taken up their roles as the RSTMH joint Presidents, which is the first time in RSTMH history that we have had two Presidents, and only the second time we have had a President based in Africa.

RSTMH has today announced the winners of the 2024 Medals and Awards programme at the RSTMH Annual Meeting which was held in London on 10-11 October 2024.

Last month global leaders met at the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), where they committed to a set of targets and actions, including reducing the estimated 4.95 million human deaths associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) annually by 10% by 2030.

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday declared the mpox outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

The RSTMH journal International Health will be publishing an editorial that looks at the history of Tropical Data, a consortium of partners that helps countries carry out surveys as they work towards eliminating trachoma, as part of a new partnership.

We are excited to announce today a three-year partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) which will strengthen the skills, networks and careers of at least 75 early career researchers working in the area of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD’s) across Africa.  

A WHO Task Team on Climate Change, NTDs and Malaria launched the findings of a major scoping review on the current state of knowledge on the actual and potential impacts of human-induced changes to climate patterns on diseases including malaria, dengue, lymphatic filariasis and leishmaniasis.

Sightsavers and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) have agreed to continue their dissemination partnership to publish two additional supplements in RSMTH scientific journals.

Last week we received a letter from Buckingham Palace, confirming that His Majesty King Charles III was continuing our Royal Patronage and taking up the Patronage of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This announcement marks the one-year anniversary of His Majestys’ Coronation.  

We are excited to announce the winner of our 2023 Student Essay Prize, now in its fifth year. The essay topic for this year was "What is the most important emerging challenge for global health over the next 5 years and how could this be overcome?" We wanted to hear a personal perspective on the theme.

We published a supplement on ‘Mental Health, Stigma and Neglected Tropical Diseases’ in our journal International Health.

The 2024 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme is now open for applications. The Programme provides more than 200 grants every year to those early in their careers to carry out their first piece of research into tropical medicine or global health. 

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) journals, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (TRSTMH) and International Health are seeking proposals for a Special Collection which will explore the use and potential use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in Global Health research and implementation.

We have published a research supplement in our journal International Health that provides updates on the infectious eye disease trachoma, in partnership with Sightsavers.

Professor Jimmy Whitworth has taken on his role as President of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the RSTMH Annual General Meeting, held us part of RSTMH’s Annual Meeting which took place yesterday.