News

Read all the latest news articles from the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Latest news

Results of our grants programme 2017/18

In response to our recent call for proposals for small grants and travel scholarships, RSTMH is pleased to announce that we have awarded more than £100,000 in grants funding for clinicians and scientists across the field of tropical medicine and hygiene.

24 Jul 2017

Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior (23 June 1926 – 08 May 2017)

On Monday 8 May 2017, Lawson Soulsby died peacefully at his home in Swaffham Prior with his daughter, Katrina, at his side.

17 May 2017

Feedback on our membership survey

As you will know, for the last few months we’ve been conducting a survey into membership of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH). We asked members, lapsed members and non-members, to tell us what they thought of our current membership programme, and to advise us on any improvements we should make. The survey was started in the summer of 2016, and extended at the end of 2016, to include additional questions relating to our wider strategy review.

10 Apr 2017

Obituary: Professor Stephen Lawn

The Trustees and staff of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) are saddened to learn that Professor Stephen Lawn died on the 23 September 2016.

30 Sep 2016

The Chronic Pandemic of NTDs

In a Lancet review paper published this week, Professor David Molyneux, Dr Dirk Engels and Dr Lorenzo Savioli look at the progress made in addressing “the chronic pandemic of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)”.

15 Sep 2016

RSTMH awards £100,000 in small grants and travel/training scholarships

We are delighted to announce that we have awarded just under £100,000 in small grants and travel/training scholarships to early-career investigators in the UK and overseas.

25 Apr 2016

International Health supplement: Reflections on accomplishments in the prevention, treatment and management of consequences of NTDs

We are delighted to announce the publication of a freely available NTD NGDO Network (NNN) supplement to the March issue of International Health.

04 Mar 2016

Blogs

Group of researchers and journalists at the first workshop in India

Bringing researchers and journalists together: Our first workshop trial, in partnership with DNDi

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to help deliver a workshop in Delhi, in partnership with DNDi, between researchers and journalists. After years of wanting to do this, and of thwarted plans, we were finally able to deliver our first workshop of this kind. It was a great success and a big learning experience.

02 Dec 2022

World AIDS Day: Article Collection

To mark World AIDS Day 2022, we have compiled this collection of recent articles on HIV and AIDS related research, from our journals Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and International Health.

01 Dec 2022

World AIDS Day: Early Career Grant research into HIV and AIDS

For World AIDS Day, we spoke to a number of our Early Career Grant awardees about why they chose to focus on AIDS and HIV in their Early Career Grant research, and what this year’s theme of ‘Equalize’ means to them.