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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 252 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

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Climate Change, Malaria, and Neglected Tropical Diseases

On World Neglected Disease Day (World NTD Day) 2025, RSTMH hosted a webinar on the topic of climate change, malaria, and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), in collaboration with The World Health Organization Task Team on Climate Change, Neglected Tropical Diseases and Malaria. We have published the recording of the webinar below.

03 Feb 2025

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Addressing the snakebite challenge - progress towards the 2030 roadmap

This World Neglected Tropical Disease Day (World NTD Day), we have published a Special Issue on ‘Addressing the snakebite challenge - progress towards the 2030 roadmap’. Thomas Pinfield, RSTMH Managing Editor, looks at what the articles show us about research into snakebite.

29 Jan 2025

The road to zero leprosy: Insights from Malawi

For World Leprosy Day 2025 (26 January 2025), Nathan Singano, a public health researcher with a focus on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and an RSTMH/NIHR Early Career Grant 2023 awardee, wrote about his project on 'Beyond Eradication: Evaluating Leprosy Interventions and Knowledge in Malawi'.

26 Jan 2025

Credit: Sudipto Das Caption: Fighting with Malaria. Children enjoy a summer afternoon sitting inside a mosquito net recently distributed by local health department at a plasmodium falciparum malaria prone area in a remote village in Birbhum, India to prevent mosquito borne diseases. Living far below poverty level these tribal families rarely manage to purchase mosquito net/ repellent resulting to a high death toll in the areas.

Climate Change, Malaria, and NTDs: Research priorities for a warming world

Ahead of our World Neglected Tropical Disease Day webinar on Climate Change, Malaria, and NTDs, which focuses on a major scoping review published in RSTMH Journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Professor Deirdre Hollingsworth, one of the paper’s authors and speaker at the webinar, looks at potential ways to advance research on the impact of climate change on malaria and NTDs.

24 Jan 2025

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