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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

RSTMH Medals and Awards Winners 2025

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

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

mpox Credit CDC Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regnery, Hannah Bullock

WHO declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern

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

15 Aug 2024

Credit: Stefano Catalano Caption: “Make Lake Guiers canoeable again”. Near Mbane, Senegal, an area heavily affected by schistosomiasis disease after major infrastructure development and land-use changes at the beginning of the 90s.

RSTMH and CIFF announce three-year 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.

13 Jun 2024

Blogs

From left to right, Greta Holmes - RSTMH Grant Manager, Irene Atii, and Walter Okello, with their young child.

Balancing family life with research

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.

23 Oct 2025

Highlights from the World Health Summit 2025

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

16 Oct 2025

A spotlight on women’s health: Attending the Women’s Health Innovation Equity Forum

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.