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RSTMH Medals and Awards Winners 2025

RSTMH has announced the winners of the 2025 Medals and Awards programme.

26 Sep 2025

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong start the second year of joint Presidency

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong will continue their leadership of RSTMH with a second year as joint Presidents.

26 Sep 2025

Former RSTMH President awarded OBE

Simon Bush, RSTMH president in 2022-2023 and trustee for ten years, has been awarded an OBE in King Charles III’s birthday honours, in recognition of his services to eliminating neglected tropical diseases.

11 Jul 2025

2025 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme opens for applications

The 2025 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme is now open for applications. Last year the Programme provided 299 grants to those early in their careers to carry out their first piece of research into tropical medicine or global health.

20 Feb 2025

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Promises and risks of AI in global health: Key learnings from RSTMH Annual Meeting 2025

The event provided the unique opportunity of getting many healthcare, global health and tropical medicine experts in one room, alongside those working for NGOs and industry specialists in health AI and technology. In this blog, we share highlights from two days of presentations, conversation and debate.

07 Oct 2025

Remoscope (foreground, left of center) is an AI-powered, label-free imaging cytometer that scans fresh whole blood for malaria parasites. Credit: Dr Paul Lebel

New Special Collection: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Global Health

During the RSTMH Annual Meeting 2025, we announced the publication of a cross-journal Special Collection ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Global Health’, featuring papers from around the world exploring AI and healthcare.

26 Sep 2025

Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 8, August 2025

Highlights this month include a comparative study investigating disparities in unmet needs for family planning of urban and rural women in Kano State, Nigeria; a literature analysis on reactivation of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the context of non-HIV immunosuppression.

20 Aug 2025

International Health: Volume 17, Issue 4, July 2025

This month’s Editor’s Choice article is a Commentary by Obasanjo Bolarinwa and colleagues, which by focusing on the 2022-2023 Mpox outbreak, and the COVID-19 pandemic before that, draws attention to critical weaknesses in global health equity and structural inequalities in global health governance.

23 Jul 2025

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RSTMH Medals and Awards Winners 2025

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong start the second year of joint Presidency

Former RSTMH President awarded OBE

2025 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme opens for applications

Latest blogs

Promises and risks of AI in global health: Key learnings from RSTMH Annual Meeting 2025

New Special Collection: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Global Health

Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 8, August 2025

International Health: Volume 17, Issue 4, July 2025

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