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WHO article on Climate Change and NTDs published in RSTMH journal

Today, a World Health Organization (WHO) Task Team on Climate Change, NTDs and Malaria, under the guidance of Dr. Socé Fall and with support from the global health philanthropy Reaching the Last Mile, has 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.

22 May 2024

Sightsavers to partner with RSTMH for two further supplements in our scientific journals

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.

17 May 2024

Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene granted Royal Patronage by His Majesty King Charles III

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.

15 May 2024

‘Mental Health, Stigma and Neglected Tropical Diseases’ journal supplement launches

Last week we launched our supplement ‘Mental Health, Stigma and Neglected Tropical Diseases’ in our journal International Health.

03 May 2024

2024 Early Career Grants Programme opens for applications

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.

22 Jan 2024

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Call for papers: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 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.

19 Dec 2023

International Health supplement on trachoma published as part of Sightsavers dissemination partnership

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

12 Dec 2023

Professor Jimmy Whitworth takes up role as RSTMH President

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.

29 Sep 2023

RSTMH Medals and Awards Winners 2023

RSTMH has announced the winners of the 2023 Medals and Awards programme at the RSTMH Annual Meeting which was held in London on 28 – 29 September 2023.

28 Sep 2023

Call for Papers: Addressing the snakebite challenge - progress towards the 2030 roadmap

We are seeking submissions for a supplement, to be published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (TRSTMH), which aims to bring together research on improving the understanding of snakebites and snakebite envenoming.

22 Sep 2023

In Memoriam: Professor Anthony Bryceson (1934 – 2023)

We were very sad to hear that long-term member Professor Anthony Bryceson recently died. Anthony had been an RSTMH member since 1967 and served on the Council and on the Medals and Awards Committee in 1983 and 1984. He was also Honorary Secretary from 1985 to 1989 and was awarded the Chalmers Medal in 1979. Please find below an obituary written by three former RSTMH Presidents about Anthony and his many achievements.

11 Aug 2023

International Health: Introducing Lessons from the Field

We are delighted to launch of Lessons from the Field as a new article type in International Health.

25 Jul 2023

Blogs

Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 8, August 2025

Highlights this month include a comparative study investigating disparities in unmet needs for family planning of urban and rural women in Kano State, Nigeria; a literature analysis on reactivation of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the context of non-HIV immunosuppression.

20 Aug 2025

International Health: Volume 17, Issue 4, July 2025

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.

23 Jul 2025

Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 7, July 2025

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. In this paper, Liu and Richardson revisit Brian Greenwood’s 2009 commentary “Can malaria be eliminated?”, summarising developments and achievements in, and threats to, global malaria elimination efforts over the last decade and a half. Although they conclude that the answer is still ‘yes’ to the question posed by Greenwood, with most of the necessary tools already available, they highlight the many challenges ahead, not least the dramatic cuts in global health funding we have seem over the past months. Malaria is far from being a ‘solved’ problem.”

09 Jul 2025

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