Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

19/09/2023

In the five years since the launch of Snakebite Awareness Day, the snakebite envenoming community has mobilized voices and resources to tackle SBE around the world. Once described by Kofi Annan, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, as ‘the biggest public health crisis you have likely never heard of’, SBE is now gaining attention, sustained by a dynamic and growing community.

This year the theme of the day is 'Building momentum for better outcomes' and we reflect on our shared efforts and continue to expand this momentum to accelerate future progress.

Read our selection of articles, including:

- A blog post from Dr Frank Tianyi, who explains why the journey to combat snakebite envenoming requires innovation, collaboration, and equity

- A blog post from Priyanka Kadam, Thomas Junghanss and Mauro Bodio where they explain why they decided to create an app to assist with the treatment of snake bites

- An article collection containing the most recent, impactful snakebite research from across the RSTMH portfolio.

- And a selection of quotes from our Early Career Grant recipients who explain why they chose to conduct research into snakebite. Hear from them below

Read our International Snakebite Awareness Day content here: https://www.rstmh.org/news-blog/blogs/isbad-2023-building-momentum-for-better-outcomes

18/09/2023

🎯 Ahead of , we want to shout out to all community educators across the world for making snakebite education their mission!

👉 Interested in joining the Snakebite Community Engagement Network? Find out more here: https://haiweb.org/what-we-do/ouradvocacywork/snakebite-community-engagement-network/

21/04/2023

There is just one week left to apply for an RSTMH 2023 Early Career Grants!

Applications for grants of up to £5,000 (GBP) are welcomed from early career researchers and global health professionals based anywhere in the world, who have not had research funding of £5,000 (GBP) or more in their own name before.

The projects can be on any topic related to tropical medicine and global health, from across the research spectrum of lab, translation, implementation and policy, and should be delivered in up to one year.

The deadline to apply is 28 April 2023, 09:00AM BST.

Don't miss your chance. Apply now.

https://www.rstmh.org/grants

28/03/2023

There is now just one month left to apply for an RSTMH 2023 Early Career Grant.

The RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme is open for applications from global health researchers and professionals based anywhere in the world, who have not had research funding in their own name before.

The projects can be on any topic related to tropical medicine and global health, from across the research spectrum of lab, translation, implementation and policy, and should take up to one year.

The maximum RSTMH Early Career Grant award is £5,000 (including any taxes on relevant purchases) and for up to one year in duration.

You can find guidance on applying for an Early Career Grant on the RSTMH website, including case studies and the recording of our guidance webinar.

The deadline to apply is 28 April 2023 at 09:00AM BST.

Find out more and apply: https://www.rstmh.org/grants

15/03/2023

This year marks the start of the new five-year strategy for RSTMH. This is an exciting time for the society as we build on the successes of our last five years, and have the opportunity to introduce some exciting new activities which we hope will help us move closer to achieving our overall goals in 2023-2028.

We are very grateful to all of our members, Fellows, friends and networks who fed into this process in 2022, providing feedback and ideas which helped to shape our new five-year plans.

In this blog, our Chief Executive Tamar Ghosh has highlighted some of our successes and achievements of our last strategy period and outlined our key activities for the first year of our new strategy.

Read the blog here: https://www.rstmh.org/news-blog/blogs/rstmh-strategy-2023-%E2%80%93-2028-reflections-and-looking-ahead

08/03/2023

This International Women’s Day, Rashida Ferrand, Professor of International Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the 2022 Donald Mackay Medal recipient, reflects on the persisting and future problems that we, the global health community, are confronted with.



Read the blog: https://www.rstmh.org/news-blog/blogs/international-women%E2%80%99s-day-embracing-equity-in-global-health

14/02/2023

📷Don't miss your chance to enter our NTDs photo competition and be in with a chance to win RSTMH membership for one year

The competition is an opportunity to showcase the people, communities, activities, successes and challenges of working with neglected tropical diseases.



Deadline: 17:00 GMT, 17 February 2023

Neglected Tropical Diseases: RSTMH photo competition 16 Jan 2023 To mark World NTD Day, taking place on 30 January 2023, we are running a photo competition to highlight neglected tropical diseases.  The competition is an opportunity to showcase the people, communities, activities, successes and cha...

03/02/2023

Don't miss your chance to enter our Student Essay Prize on the topic of 'conflict and health' and be in with a chance of winning £200 and a year's RSTMH membership.

Ahead of the application deadline we will be hosting a guidance webinar on Thursday 9 February 2023, 12:00PM - 01:00PM GMT. This webinar will talk through the eligibility and submission process of the prize.

It will also feature previous winners of the competition, who will be talking about their own entries and providing hints and tips. We will end the session with some time for a Q&A.

Register your place here: https://www.rstmh.org/events/student-essay-prize-guidance-webinar-2023

01/02/2023

Today we launch our 2023 Early Career Grants Programme.

We welcome applications for grants of up to £5,000 from early career researchers and global health professionals anywhere in the world, who have not had research funding of £5,000 (GBP) or more in their own name before.

The projects can be on any topic related to tropical medicine and global health, from across the research spectrum of lab, translation, implementation and policy, and should take up to one year.

Find out more: https://rstmh.org/grants

30/01/2023

For World NTD Day we spoke to a number of our Early Career Grant awardees about why they chose to focus on NTDs in their Early Career Grant research, and what this year’s theme of ‘Act now. Act together. Invest in NTDs’ means to them.

Hear from them here: https://lnkd.in/eY4cTFcz

23/11/2022

We are excited to reveal our full programme for Research in Progress London, which is taking place on 8 December 2022.

Keynote speakers are RSTMH Policy Advisor Professor David Heymann CBE and RSTMH Honorary Fellow Professor Rosanna Peeling. They will be speaking alongside 12 early career researchers from 10 organisations.

This one-day meeting is designed for early career investigators to present their unpublished research to peers and senior experts in all fields of tropical medicine and global health. Mentoring on the topics of securing funded, getting published and communicating your work will also be delivered.

It will take place at Coram, 41 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ.

If you would like to come along and hear about exciting new research in progress from the next generation of leaders in our field, please do register now.

22/11/2022

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.

As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat.

World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) is taking place this year from 18 to the 24 November 2022. It is a global campaign that is celebrated annually to improve awareness and understanding of AMR and encourage best practices among the public, One Health stakeholders and policymakers, who all play a critical role in reducing the further emergence and spread of AMR.

To mark WAAW, we have compiled this collection of recent articles on antimicrobial resistance from our journals International Health and Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.



https://rstmh.org/news-blog/blogs/world-antimicrobial-awareness-week-2022-article-collection