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COVID-19 – advice from RSTMH members and Fellows

Response from our members and Fellows what they felt RSTMH should be doing to help the global efforts to tackle COVID-19.

23 Mar 2020

Soulsby Foundation calls for applications for 2020 One Health Fellowships

Soulsby Foundation has opened a call for applications for the 2020 Travelling Fellowships Programme

26 Nov 2019

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

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Credit: Global Alliance for Rabies Control

Rabies Article Collection

To mark World Rabies Day on September 28th, 2023, we have collated the most recent rabies research published across the RSTMH portfolio, as well as the most impactful and highly cited articles from previous issues.

28 Sep 2023

Photo title: Spooky surprise Photo credit: Girish Vilas Choure Photo caption: Coffee plantations of India are not only known for their rich quality coffee beans but also for these spectacularly camouflaged Craspedocephalus malabaricus or Malabar pit vipers. This snake species is highly venomous and their bites are clinically significant. Human beings economically dependent on coffee plantations for their livelihoods often suffer snake bites from Malabar pit vipers. While we might call this an attack, from t

ISBAD 2023: Building momentum for better outcomes

In the five years since the launch of Snakebite Awareness Day, the snakebite envenoming community has mobilized voices and resources to tackle SBE around the world.

19 Sep 2023

Photo title: Textures in vipers Photo credit: Edgar Neri-Castro Photo caption: Close-up of a Atheris squamigera, a species of the genus Atheris. Species of this genus have a very showy strongly keeled scale pattern.

ISBAD 2023: Hear from our Early Career Grant awardees

For this year's International Snakebite Awareness Day, taking place on 19 September 2023, we spoke to our Early Career Grant awardees about why they chose to conduct research into snakebite.