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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
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
Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 7, July 2025 This month’s Editor’s Choice article is from our ongoing ‘From the Archives’ series, where experts give a commentary and update on a paper from the Transactions archives. In this paper, Liu and Richardson revisit Brian Greenwood’s 2009 commentary “Can malaria be eliminated?”, summarising developments and achievements in, and threats to, global malaria elimination efforts over the last decade and a half. Although they conclude that the answer is still ‘yes’ to the question posed by Greenwood, with most of the necessary tools already available, they highlight the many challenges ahead, not least the dramatic cuts in global health funding we have seem over the past months. Malaria is far from being a ‘solved’ problem.” 09 Jul 2025
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
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. 30 May 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