Our 2018 medals and awards winners Every year we award a number of medals in recognition of excellence. This year, the awards took place at our Annual Meeting at the Royal College of Physicians in London. 02 Oct 2018
RSTMH and NNN announce winners of the Beat NTDs photo contest As the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network (NNN) Annual Meeting kicks off today in Addis Ababa, we are very excited to pleased to announce the winners of our joint photo competition with NNN on the theme of neglected tropical diseased, called Beat NTDs. 24 Sep 2018
The first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day Global coalition of health organisations announces first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day Today – 19 September – a coalition of organisations working on global health and tropical medicine around the world, including the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, is announcing the first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day. 19 Sep 2018
World Mosquito Day and Sir Ronald Ross World Mosquito Day, observed annually on 20 August, is a commemoration of British doctor Sir Ronald Ross's discovery in 1897 that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans. 17 Aug 2018
Professor David Molyneux announced as Editor-in-Chief of International Health The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has announced Professor David Molyneux, Emeritus Professor and Senior Professorial Fellow and neglected tropical diseases lead at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, as the Editor-in-Chief of our journal, International Health. 14 Aug 2018
Exclusive use of our office space for RSTMH members We are now offering our meeting and office facilities for our members and partners to use. As a charity, we are making these available to our friends for a suggested donation. 06 Aug 2018
RSTMH announces small grant awardees 2018 We can finally announce our small grant awardees for this year. It’s such a great feeling to award funding to worthy research projects, especially knowing that many of the awardees would not have been able to find grants of a similar size and scope anywhere else. 09 Jul 2018
Increase in impact factor for both RSTMH journals With the latest impact factors having just been released, we’re delighted to announce that both our journals increased their impact factor from last year. 06 Jul 2018
Submit your photos to the Beat NTDs photo contest Neglected Tropical Disease (NTDs) are a group of treatable and preventable diseases that continue to affect over 1.5 billion of the world's most impoverished, marginalised people living in remote communities. Despite their prevalence, they get little attention or coverage. 31 May 2018
Global healthcare access and quality improved from 2000-2016 Healthcare access and quality improved globally from 2000-2016 due in part to large gains seen in many low and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, according to the latest data from the Global Burden of Disease study published in The Lancet. 23 May 2018
Preventive use of common antibiotic reduces child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa Treating young children in Sub-Saharan Africa with azithromycin, a safe, inexpensive, and widely used antibiotic, significantly reduced deaths of children under five in a large randomised trial led by scientists at UC San Francisco. 26 Apr 2018
Submit your photos to Photovoice at HSR2018 The Global Symposium on Health Systems Research invites you to submit Photovoice applications. RSTMH is proud to be sponsoring the Photovoice exhibit. Successful Photovoice submissions will be displayed in a photographic exhibition and discussion forum during the HSR2018 symposium in Liverpool, UK which will take place from 8 -12 October, 2018. 18 Apr 2018
World AIDs Day 2023: Early Career Grant research into HIV and AIDS For World AIDs Day 2023, we spoke to a number of our Early Career Grant awardees about why they chose to focus on AIDS and HIV in their Early Career Grant research, and what this year’s theme of ‘Let Communities Lead’ means to them. 01 Dec 2023
Sarah Rowland-Jones: ‘There are reasons to be optimistic this World AIDs Day’ In this blog, Professor Sarah Rowland-Jones explains that although there are certainly some reasons to be optimistic this World AIDS day, there are also some causes for concern buried amongst the UNAIDS data. 01 Dec 2023
World AIDs Day 2023: Article collection For World AIDs Day we have collated a number of recent articles from our two journals International Health and Transactions on the subject of HIV and AIDs. 01 Dec 2023