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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

Snakebite Special Issue published on World NTD Day

Today, on World Neglected Tropical Disease Day, RSTMH has published a Special Issue on ‘Addressing the snakebite challenge - progress towards the 2030 roadmap’ in its journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine.

30 Jan 2025

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2024 Student Essay Prize Winner announced

We are excited to announce the winner of our 2024 Student Essay Prize, now in its sixth year.

23 Jan 2025

ICTMM 2028 date and venue announced

We are excited to announce the date and venue for the 22nd International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, which the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene will be hosting in Liverpool, UK in 2028.

28 Nov 2024

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong take up RSTMH joint Presidency

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong have taken up their roles as the RSTMH joint Presidents, which is the first time in RSTMH history that we have had two Presidents, and only the second time we have had a President based in Africa.

11 Oct 2024

RSTMH Medals and Awards Winners 2024

RSTMH has today announced the winners of the 2024 Medals and Awards programme at the RSTMH Annual Meeting which was held in London on 10-11 October 2024.

10 Oct 2024

Global leaders approve target to reduce human deaths from AMR by 10% by 2030

Last month global leaders met at the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), where they committed to a set of targets and actions, including reducing the estimated 4.95 million human deaths associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance (AMR) annually by 10% by 2030.

08 Oct 2024

mpox Credit CDC Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regnery, Hannah Bullock

WHO declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday declared the mpox outbreak in parts of Africa a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).

15 Aug 2024

Credit: Stefano Catalano Caption: “Make Lake Guiers canoeable again”. Near Mbane, Senegal, an area heavily affected by schistosomiasis disease after major infrastructure development and land-use changes at the beginning of the 90s.

RSTMH and CIFF announce three-year partnership

We are excited to announce today a three-year partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) which will strengthen the skills, networks and careers of at least 75 early career researchers working in the area of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD’s) across Africa.

13 Jun 2024

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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

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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

Snakebite Special Issue published on World NTD Day

2024 Student Essay Prize Winner announced

ICTMM 2028 date and venue announced

Dr Wendy Harrison and Professor Margaret Gyapong take up RSTMH joint Presidency

RSTMH Medals and Awards Winners 2024

Global leaders approve target to reduce human deaths from AMR by 10% by 2030

WHO declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern

RSTMH and CIFF announce three-year partnership

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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

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