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Annual Meeting 2020: Emerging diseases and outbreaks - an overview

RSTMH hosted our first fully virtual Annual Meeting, covering the theme of emerging diseases and outbreaks.

19 Oct 2020

Professor Gail Davey's Presidential Address

RSTMH President Gail Davey’s first address, delivered at the 2020 RSTMH AGM in September, focused on podoconiosis and the importance of diversity and decolonisation of tropical medicine.

08 Oct 2020

COVID-19 in Zambia

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Professor Gretchen Birbeck, our Country Ambassador for Zambia.

07 Oct 2020

Annual General Meeting announcements 2020

All the news and announcements from our Annual General Meeting, including an introduction to our new President, Trustees, and Medal and Award winners

21 Sep 2020

Professor Sir Alimuddin Zumla, with Lady Farzana Zumla when he received the Knighthood at Buckingham Palace in November 2017

Professor Sir Alimuddin Zumla receives the 2020 Mahathir Science Award

2020 Mahathir Science Award recipient is a thought-leader in TB, HIV/TB and emerging and re-emerging epidemic infections.

20 Aug 2020

UPDATE: WHO interim guidance on the implementation of NTD programmes

The WHO have released interim guidance on "Considerations for implementing mass treatment, active case‐finding and population-based surveys for neglected tropical diseases in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic"

30 Jul 2020

In memoriam: Professor Harold Townson (1942-2020)

It is with great sadness that the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has learned about the passing of Professor Harold Townson (1942-2020).

26 Jun 2020

COVID-19 in Ethiopia: status and responses

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Dr Kebede Deribe, our Country Ambassador for Ethiopia.

24 Jun 2020

Stepping back when we should be stepping up

Now more than ever it is evident how important investment and focus on global health is for the health of all of us.

22 Jun 2020

RSTMH Trustee elections 2020

We are excited to announce that there are three vacancies on the RSTMH Board of Trustees, to start in October 2020.

19 Jun 2020

COVID-19 in Azerbaijan: highlights of anti-epidemic measures and epidemic dynamics

We’ve invited our Country Ambassadors to reflect on their country’s COVID-19 response. Let’s hear from Dr Aybeniz Dadashova, our Country Ambassador for Azerbaijan.

08 Jun 2020

RSTMH online – Presidential Address by Professor David Mabey and our mid-term strategy review

01 Jun 2020

Blogs

International Snakebite Awareness Day 2021: research, stories, data and articles

On 19 September, we mark the fourth International Snakebite Awareness Day. It is an occasion to remember that 7,400 people every day are bitten by snakes, and 220–380 men, women and children die as a result.

17 Sep 2021

Grema and Mohammed Credit: Claire Jeantet - Fabrice Caterini/Inediz

The huge impact of COVID-19 on noma patients in Nigeria

From March 2020 to April 2021, along with other hospitals in the region, we were forced to suspend all services except emergencies. This meant we could not admit any new noma patients and we had to send all patients in a stable condition home.

07 Sep 2021

Modelling the impact of COVID-19 on NTD programmes

We were really delighted – this week – to host the second webinar in partnership with the NTD Modelling Consortium, part of the Big Data institute at the University of Oxford.

03 Sep 2021

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