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Dr Caroline Harper, Sightsavers CEO, announced as first winner of Hemingway Award

Dr Caroline Harper, the Chief Executive of UK-based NGO Sightsavers, has been selected by RSTMH and LSTM as the winner of the first Hemingway Award.

25 Nov 2019

DFID launches flagship programme to tackle neglected tropical diseases

The ASCEND (Accelerating Sustainable Control and Elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases) programme is a £200m investment to advance the impact and sustainability of national programmes tackling NTDs.

25 Oct 2019

ECTMIH 2019: Next steps

RSTMH delivered the five-day event under the theme “25 years: investigation, innovation and implementation”.

14 Oct 2019

Recommendations for RSTMH's work on One Health

We believe that in our ever more interconnected world, we must consider human health alongside animal health and the environment.

11 Oct 2019

Manson and Chalmers Medals awarded; new President announced

This year, the awards took place at our Annual Meeting, which ran concurrently to the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, in Liverpool this September.

10 Oct 2019

Community groups play a vital role in tackling snakebite

To mark International Snakebite Awareness Day on Thursday 19 September, RSTMH is publishing a report on community groups from around the world who are currently leading the fight against snakebites locally,

19 Sep 2019

Climate crisis is biggest threat to the future of global health, says RSTMH report

As part of a major new report, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) asked medical professionals from across the world what they think the next 25 years will hold for global health.

17 Sep 2019

Malaria can and should be eradicated within a generation, declare global health experts

A future free of malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, can be achieved as early as 2050, according to a new report published today by The Lancet Commission on malaria eradication.

09 Sep 2019

International Health to go fully open access from January 2020

International Health is fully open access from January 2020. This means that all previously published content will become free to view and all new content will have an associated article processing charge.

19 Jul 2019

Lessons from the field: share your experiences of the current Ebola crisis

As an organisation, we are committed to establishing activities and programmes to better engage with our networks, including authors. This is why we feel it’s so important to ensure we hear the experiences and lessons learned directly from those delivering health programmes on the ground.

17 Jul 2019

New programme “Access to Health: Global Challenges” explores the changing face of global health in an interconnected world

In partnership with ITN Productions Industry News, RSTMH has co-produced a news and current affairs-style programme “Access to Health: Global Challenges”.

16 Jun 2019

LSHTM launches Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health

Last week, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine launched their 14th virtual centre focusing on climate change and planetary health.

03 Jun 2019

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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

Round-up: 2022 Early Career Grants programme awardees

The funding for our 2022 Early Career Grants Programme is almost finalized and as in past years we want to share with you key information about our winners.

30 Jan 2023

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Dr Caroline Harper, Sightsavers CEO, announced as first winner of Hemingway Award

DFID launches flagship programme to tackle neglected tropical diseases

ECTMIH 2019: Next steps

Recommendations for RSTMH's work on One Health

Manson and Chalmers Medals awarded; new President announced

Community groups play a vital role in tackling snakebite

Climate crisis is biggest threat to the future of global health, says RSTMH report

Malaria can and should be eradicated within a generation, declare global health experts

International Health to go fully open access from January 2020

Lessons from the field: share your experiences of the current Ebola crisis

New programme “Access to Health: Global Challenges” explores the changing face of global health in an interconnected world

LSHTM launches Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health

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