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Dr Neville Martin Bailey MD, MSc, DPH (1930-2017)

We are sad to announce to death of Dr Neville Martin Bailey, an RSTMH fellow since 1966, whose papers on the treatment and diagnosis of Human Trypanosomiasis featured in several issues of Transactions.

19 Sep 2017

A new direction to guide our ambition of saving lives and improving health

As our friends and members, you are central to everything we do at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. We are therefore thrilled to tell you about the start of our journey to a more impactful way of working and communicating. More than anything, we look forward to taking you all on this journey with us. To coincide with our Annual Meeting, this year on the theme of Planetary Health, we are launching our new strategy 2017-2022. The strategy is the result of a review which involved RSTHM’s Board of Trustees, staff team, members, former members, and non-members. The six-month process included a comprehensive survey with approximately 200 respondents, and over 100 interviews.

13 Sep 2017

Results of our grants programme 2017/18

In response to our recent call for proposals for small grants and travel scholarships, RSTMH is pleased to announce that we have awarded more than £100,000 in grants funding for clinicians and scientists across the field of tropical medicine and hygiene.

24 Jul 2017

Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (23 June 1926 – 08 May 2017)

On Monday 8 May 2017, Lawson Soulsby died peacefully at his home in Swaffham Prior with his daughter, Katrina, at his side.

17 May 2017

Feedback on our membership survey

As you will know, for the last few months we’ve been conducting a survey into membership of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH). We asked members, lapsed members and non-members, to tell us what they thought of our current membership programme, and to advise us on any improvements we should make. The survey was started in the summer of 2016, and extended at the end of 2016, to include additional questions relating to our wider strategy review.

10 Apr 2017

Obituary: Professor Stephen Lawn

The Trustees and staff of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) are saddened to learn that Professor Stephen Lawn died on the 23 September 2016.

30 Sep 2016

The Chronic Pandemic of NTDs

In a Lancet review paper published this week, Professor David Molyneux, Dr Dirk Engels and Dr Lorenzo Savioli look at the progress made in addressing “the chronic pandemic of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)”.

15 Sep 2016

RSTMH awards £100,000 in small grants and travel/training scholarships

We are delighted to announce that we have awarded just under £100,000 in small grants and travel/training scholarships to early-career investigators in the UK and overseas.

25 Apr 2016

International Health supplement: Reflections on accomplishments in the prevention, treatment and management of consequences of NTDs

We are delighted to announce the publication of a freely available NTD NGDO Network (NNN) supplement to the March issue of International Health.

04 Mar 2016

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Credit: Professor Gail Davey. Caption: Rwandan podoconiosis patients learning self-care for their legs

Professor Gail Davey: ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in tackling neglected tropical diseases for health equity and social justice’

For World NTD Day, Professor Gail Davey, Trustee and Past President of RSTMH and a medical epidemiologist specialising in skin-related Neglected Tropical Diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, looks at why it is crucial that we act now and together to end NTDs and says that NTD programmes can no longer be considered in isolation from endemic country health systems.

30 Jan 2023

Credit: Bate Eyong Caption: Blood samples collected as part of community survey to determine the prevalence of lymphatic filariasis in the northwest region of Cameroon.

Professor David Mabey: Progress has been made against NTDs but the battle is far from over

Professor David Mabey, Past President and Trustee of RSTMH and Chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of the WHO Department of NTDs, looks at what progress has been made in the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and says that now is the time for us all to act, act together and invest in NTDs.

30 Jan 2023

Finding trachoma Credit: Kramoko Bamba / Sightsavers Caption "In Amédékro, Ivory Coast, Children wait in an orderly queue for Dr Sarr Boubacar to screen them for trachoma. He checks the eyes of all of the children for evidence of this potentially blinding neglected tropical disease, which typically affects people in remote or poor areas. During this activity, almost 2000 children were screened and those with trachoma were given medication to treat the infection. Importantly, he also trained others in the

World NTD Day: Early Career Grant Research into NTDs

World NTD Day is taking place today on 30 January. To mark this year, we spoke to a number of our Early Career Grant awardees about why they chose to focus on NTDs in their Early Career Grant research, and what this year’s theme of ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in NTDs’ means to them.

30 Jan 2023

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Dr Neville Martin Bailey MD, MSc, DPH (1930-2017)

A new direction to guide our ambition of saving lives and improving health

Results of our grants programme 2017/18

Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (23 June 1926 – 08 May 2017)

Feedback on our membership survey

Obituary: Professor Stephen Lawn

The Chronic Pandemic of NTDs

RSTMH awards £100,000 in small grants and travel/training scholarships

International Health supplement: Reflections on accomplishments in the prevention, treatment and management of consequences of NTDs

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Professor Gail Davey: ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in tackling neglected tropical diseases for health equity and social justice’

Professor David Mabey: Progress has been made against NTDs but the battle is far from over

World NTD Day: Early Career Grant Research into NTDs

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