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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

RSTMH response to Ebola crisis in DRC

We are in the midst of the second largest Ebola outbreak in history – second only to the 2014 West African epidemic.

26 May 2019

Wellcome launches £80 million programme to tackle snakebite

Today, Wellcome has announced an ambitious new £80 million programme to transform the way snakebite treatments are researched and delivered, to make them better, safer and more accessible for all.

16 May 2019

Record number of small grants received in 2019

This year we have seen a record number of applications for our small grants programme.

26 Apr 2019

World's first malaria vaccine pilot launched in Malawi

The government of Malawi has, this week, launched the world’s first malaria vaccine in a landmark pilot programme.

24 Apr 2019

Blogs

Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 6, June 2025

In this month’s Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (TRSTMH), highlights include a Review article on the burden of mycetoma in Burkina Faso; an evaluation of suitability of two types of diagnostic tools for the diagnosis of canine visceral leishmaniasis in Argentina; a retrospective case series from South India analysing the tunnel sign in patients with melioidosis; an Original Article assessing the diagnostic sensitivity of microscopic techniques using formalin-fixed samples for the detection of soil-transmitted helminths; and six further papers from our recent Special Issue: Addressing the snakebite challenge - progress towards the 2030 roadmap.

10 Jun 2025

Round-up: 2025 Early Career Grants Programme applications

In this blog, RSTMH Grants Manager Greta Holmes looks at the applications to this year's Early Career Grants programme – another record-breaking year for applications. 

30 May 2025

Malaria, helminths, and other health challenges among street children and youths in Cameroon

Valerie Makoge, Early Career Grant 2021 awardee and RSTMH Global Assessor, recently published an article in International Health titled ‘Unveiling the hidden health challenges: malaria, helminths, STIs and other pathologies among street children, adolescents and young adults in Cameroon’. In this blog, she summarises the key findings.