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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

Submit your photos to the Beat NTDs photo contest

Neglected Tropical Disease (NTDs) are a group of treatable and preventable diseases that continue to affect over 1.5 billion of the world's most impoverished, marginalised people living in remote communities. Despite their prevalence, they get little attention or coverage.

31 May 2018

Global healthcare access and quality improved from 2000-2016

Healthcare access and quality improved globally from 2000-2016 due in part to large gains seen in many low and middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, according to the latest data from the Global Burden of Disease study published in The Lancet.

23 May 2018

Preventive use of common antibiotic reduces child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Treating young children in Sub-Saharan Africa with azithromycin, a safe, inexpensive, and widely used antibiotic, significantly reduced deaths of children under five in a large randomised trial led by scientists at UC San Francisco.

26 Apr 2018

Blogs

IWD 2021: Time to challenge gender discrimination in global health

On 8 March, RSTMH is celebrating International Women’s Day 2021, which this year is focused on the theme choosing to challenge.

04 Mar 2021

Our strategy to improve diversity and inclusion

In all we do, and all relationships we have with our members and Fellows, volunteers, partners, suppliers and our wider networks, we work to the values of transparency, respect and dignity. RSTMH condemns racism and all forms of discrimination.

19 Feb 2021

Exploring and responding to our colonial history

As you may remember from my Presidential address in September last year, I am keen to use my Presidency to support RSTMH as we explore and address our colonial history.

18 Feb 2021

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