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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 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

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Applying for a 2025 RSTMH Early Career Grant: Advice from 2024 awardees

Ahead of the deadline for applications to the 2025 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme (14 May 2025, 12:00 PM BST), we spoke to some of our 2024 awardees, funded by RSTMH, to ask what their top tips would be for those currently writing an application.

25 Mar 2025

World TB Day 2025: Article collection

For this year's World TB (Tuberculosis) Day on 24 March 2025, we have compiled a number of recent articles from our two journals International Health and Transactions.

24 Mar 2025

International Health: Volume 17, Issue 2, March 2025

This month’s Editor’s Choice article is a Short Communication by Manickum et al, who examined COVID-19 vaccine wastage in private and public healthcare facilities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

21 Mar 2025

Transactions: Volume 119, Issue 3, March 2025

This month’s Editor’s Choice article is a paper by Victor O Magero and colleagues, who explore the distribution of the schistosome intermediate snail host Biomphalaria pfeifferi in East Africa’s River systems and determine the prevalence of Schistosoma mansoni infection.

10 Mar 2025

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