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
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