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Experts warn of a surge in vector-borne diseases as humanitarian crisis in Venezuela worsens

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Venezuela is accelerating the re-emergence of vector-borne diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease, dengue and Zika virus.

22 Feb 2019

European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 2019 opens for abstracts

We are now open for abstract submissions for the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 2019 (ECTMIH).

31 Oct 2018

RSTMH and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine announce Hemingway Award

RSTMH and LSTM have announced a new award, the Hemingway Award, to coincide with the celebrations of Professor Janet Hemingway’s outstanding career and achievements, as she steps down as Director of LSTM.

09 Oct 2018

RSTMH Announces Student Essay Prize

Welcome to the RSTMH Medical Student Essay Competition. This is the first time we have run this for some years and we plan to have an essay competition for global health students in due course.

02 Oct 2018

Our 2018 medals and awards winners

Every year we award a number of medals in recognition of excellence. This year, the awards took place at our Annual Meeting at the Royal College of Physicians in London.

02 Oct 2018

RSTMH and NNN announce winners of the Beat NTDs photo contest

As the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network (NNN) Annual Meeting kicks off today in Addis Ababa, we are very excited to pleased to announce the winners of our joint photo competition with NNN on the theme of neglected tropical diseased, called Beat NTDs.

24 Sep 2018

The first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day

Global coalition of health organisations announces first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day

Today – 19 September – a coalition of organisations working on global health and tropical medicine around the world, including the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, is announcing the first-ever International Snakebite Awareness Day.

19 Sep 2018

World Mosquito Day and Sir Ronald Ross

World Mosquito Day, observed annually on 20 August, is a commemoration of British doctor Sir Ronald Ross's discovery in 1897 that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans.

17 Aug 2018

Professor David Molyneux announced as Editor-in-Chief of International Health

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RSTMH) has announced Professor David Molyneux, Emeritus Professor and Senior Professorial Fellow and neglected tropical diseases lead at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, as the Editor-in-Chief of our journal, International Health.

14 Aug 2018

Exclusive use of our office space for RSTMH members

We are now offering our meeting and office facilities for our members and partners to use.

As a charity, we are making these available to our friends for a suggested donation.

06 Aug 2018

RSTMH announces small grant awardees 2018

We can finally announce our small grant awardees for this year. It’s such a great feeling to award funding to worthy research projects, especially knowing that many of the awardees would not have been able to find grants of a similar size and scope anywhere else.

09 Jul 2018

Increase in impact factor for both RSTMH journals

With the latest impact factors having just been released, we’re delighted to announce that both our journals increased their impact factor from last year.

06 Jul 2018

Blogs

AMR is at the G7, lessons from COVID-19

As waves of COVID-19 continue to roll through societies, we are seeing data emerge on associated bacterial and fungal infections in COVID-19 patients and on antimicrobial usage for these patients.

04 Jun 2021