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2025 Student Essay Prize Winner announced

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

25 Nov 2025

RSTMH announces a new Journal looking at Artificial Intelligence and Global Health

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

17 Nov 2025

RSTMH Medals and Awards Winners 2025

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

26 Sep 2025

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong start the second year of joint Presidency

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong will continue their leadership of RSTMH with a second year as joint Presidents.

26 Sep 2025

Former RSTMH President awarded OBE

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.

11 Jul 2025

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

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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

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong take up RSTMH joint Presidency

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.

11 Oct 2024

RSTMH Medals and Awards Winners 2024

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.

10 Oct 2024

Global leaders approve target to reduce human deaths from AMR by 10% by 2030

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.

08 Oct 2024

Blogs

Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 11, November 2025

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.

20 Nov 2025

Highlights and lessons of RSTMH travel scholars

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.

18 Nov 2025

Photo Competition: Global Health in the Digital 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.

10 Nov 2025

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