Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene,^[1] more commonly known by its acronym RSTMH, was founded in 1907 by Sir James Cantlie and George Carmichael Low. Sir Patrick Manson, the Society's first President (1907–1909), was recognised as "the father of tropical medicine" by his biographer.^[2] He passed the post on to Sir Ronald Ross (president 1909–1911), discoverer of the role of mosquitoes in the transmission of malaria.

The objectives of RSTMH are "to promote and advance the study, control and prevention of diseases in man and other animals in the tropics and sub-tropics, facilitate discussion and exchange of information among those who are interested in tropical diseases and international health, and generally to promote the work of those interested in these objectives".^[3]

In 1920, King George V gave his permission for RSTMH to use the Royal prefix. Queen Elizabeth II is patron of the society and the Princess Royal is an Honorary Fellow.

Location

In 2011 the Society moved from Manson House, 26 Portland Place, London, to its current premises in Northumberland House, 303-306 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7JZ

Journals

RSTMH publishes two peer reviewed journals, Transactions (Journal)^[4] and International Health (Journal)^[5]

Awards and medals

RSTMH awards the Chalmers Medal and Donald Mackay Medal annually and the Manson Medal, the George MacDonald Medal and the Sir Rickard Christophers Medal triennially.^[6]

Five special Centenary Medals were awarded in 1907, two for lifetime achievement and three for special achievement by an under-45 year old.

Presidents

A complete list of presidents ^[7] and their inaugural presidential addresses ^[8] can be found on the Transactions website.

2016–2019 Simon Cathcart
2013-2016 Prof. Simon I. Hay
2011-2013 Prof. Peter Winstanley
2009-2011 Prof. Hazel M. Dockrell
2007–2009 Prof. David H. Molyneux
2005–2007 Sir Brian M. Greenwood
2003–2005 Prof. Andrew Tomkins
2001–2003 Prof. Harold Townson
1999–2001 Prof. David Bradley
1997–1999 Prof. David A. Warrell
1995-1997 Major-General George O. Cowan
1993–1995 Prof. Gordon C. Cook
1991-1993 Dr Peter O. Williams
1989–1991 Prof. George S. Nelson
1987-1989 Prof. Wallace Peters
1985-1987 Prof. Herbert M. Gilles
1983-1985 Sir Ian A. McGregor
1981–1983 Dr Antony J. Duggan
1979–1981 Dr Leonard G. Goodwin
1977–1979 Dr Stanley G. Browne
1975-1977 Dr C.E. Gordon Smith
1973–1975 Prof. Alan W. Woodruff
1971-1973 Sir Robert Drew
1969-1971 Prof. Brian Maegraith
1967–1969 Prof. Percy Cyril Garnham
1965-1967 Prof. George MacDonald
1963-1965 Dr Charles Wilcocks
1961–1963 Sir George McRobert
1959-1961 Sir William MacArthur
1957-1959 Sir John S.K. Boyd
1955-1957 Prof. Rupert M. Gordon
1953-1955 Dr F. Norman White
1951–1953 Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley
1949-1951 Prof. Henry Edward Shortt
1947–1949 Sir Philip H. Manson-Bahr
1945-1947 Dr C. Morley Wenyon
1943–1945 Sir Henry Harold Scott
1939–1943 Sir S. Rickard Christophers
1937-1939 Dr Sydney Price James
1935–1937 Sir Arthur Bagshawe
1933–1935 Sir Leonard Rogers
1929–1933 Sir George Carmichael Low
1927–1929 Prof. John William Watson Stephens
1925-1927 Sir Andrew Balfour
1923-1925 Sir Percy W. Bassett-Smith
1921-1923 Sir James Cantlie
1919–1921 Sir William John Ritchie Simpson
1917-1919 Sir David Bruce
1915-1917 Dr Fleming M. Sandwith
1913-1915 Sir R. Havelock Charles
1911–1913 Sir William Boog Leishman
1909–1911 Sir Ronald Ross
1907–1909 Sir Patrick Manson

References

↑ RSTMH website. Retrieved on 23 January 2014 from http://www.rstmh.org/About%20us/Contact%20Us
↑ Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr (1962). Patrick Manson, the father of tropical medicine. T. Nelson. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
↑ "RSTMH home page". Retrieved 30 April 2013.
↑ Transactions. Retrieved from http://trstmh.oxfordjournals.org/ on 27 Jan 2014.
↑ International Health Journal. Retrieved from http://inthealth.oxfordjournals.org/ on 27 Jan 2014.
↑ "RSTMH Awards". Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
↑ Hay, S.I. and McHugh, G.M. (2013). Presidential addresses of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: 1907–2013. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 107 (10):603-607. Retrieved from http://trstmh.oxfordjournals.org/content/107/10/603.full on 27 January 2014.
↑ Presidential addresses of the RSTMH retrieved from http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/trstmh/presidential_addresses.html on 27 January 2014

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