A new partnership between the Africa Research Excellence Fund and RSTMH We’re pleased to announce a new partnership between RSTMH and Africa Research Excellence Fund (AREF). 27 Oct 2020
Annual Meeting 2020: Emerging diseases and outbreaks - an overview RSTMH hosted our first fully virtual Annual Meeting, covering the theme of emerging diseases and outbreaks. 19 Oct 2020
Professor Gail Davey's Presidential Address RSTMH President Gail Davey’s first address, delivered at the 2020 RSTMH AGM in September, focused on podoconiosis and the importance of diversity and decolonisation of tropical medicine. 08 Oct 2020
COVID-19 in Zambia We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Professor Gretchen Birbeck, our Country Ambassador for Zambia. 07 Oct 2020
Annual General Meeting announcements 2020 All the news and announcements from our Annual General Meeting, including an introduction to our new President, Trustees, and Medal and Award winners 21 Sep 2020
Professor Sir Alimuddin Zumla receives the 2020 Mahathir Science Award 2020 Mahathir Science Award recipient is a thought-leader in TB, HIV/TB and emerging and re-emerging epidemic infections. 20 Aug 2020
UPDATE: WHO interim guidance on the implementation of NTD programmes The WHO have released interim guidance on "Considerations for implementing mass treatment, active case‐finding and population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic" 30 Jul 2020
In memoriam: Professor Harold Townson (1942-2020) It is with great sadness that the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has learned about the passing of Professor Harold Townson (1942-2020). 26 Jun 2020
COVID-19 in Ethiopia: status and responses We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Dr Kebede Deribe, our Country Ambassador for Ethiopia. 24 Jun 2020
Stepping back when we should be stepping up Now more than ever it is evident how important investment and focus on global health is for the health of all of us. 22 Jun 2020
RSTMH Trustee elections 2020 We are excited to announce that there are three vacancies on the RSTMH Board of Trustees, to start in October 2020. 19 Jun 2020
COVID-19 in Azerbaijan: highlights of anti-epidemic measures and epidemic dynamics We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Dr Aybeniz Dadashova, our Country Ambassador for Azerbaijan. 08 Jun 2020
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
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
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