RSTMH Student Essay Competition

RSTMH aims to support our members, Fellows and wider networks from the very start of their Careers. Our Student Essay Competition invites students to explore a wide range of challenging and interesting topics of global health and tropical medicine each year.

The 2025 Student Essay Competition will be launched later in 2025.

2024 Student Essay Prize

The essay topics for the 2024 Student Essay Prize was ‘How could the use of AI improve global health outcomes in LMICs?’. The winning essay was by Will Matupi, from The University of Nottingham, for his essay titled ‘Programs for Pathology: Improving Health Outcomes for LMICs in the Artificial Intelligence Paradigm’. Read more about the 2024 prize here.

Previous winners

2024 Will Matupi, University of Nottingham, ‘Programs for Pathology: Improving Health Outcomes for LMICs in the Artificial Intelligence Paradigm’

2023 Zoe Raw, University of Bristol, 'Pandemic Planet: The Terrifying Ascent of Zoonotic Diseases in an Overpopulated, Warming World during the Anthropocene’

2022 Hannah Lin, Cambridge University, "The Collateral of Conflict: The Effects of War on Health At Home and Away"

2021 K.M. Pavani Senarathne, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, "Burden of a "universal" healthcare system: The story of a common man from Sri Lanka"

2020 Mark Tan, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, "COVID-19 In An Inequitable World: The Last, The Lost, and The Least"

2019 Anouk de Cort, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, "The hidden clinical picture of climate change"

2018 Matthew Spencer, University College London

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