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
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
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