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Hampton Hill, Middlesex, TW12 1NJ, UK
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Email: rstmh@hamptonmedical.com
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WELCOME INVITATION
Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to draw your attention to the forthcoming
meeting of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene on 17th - 19th September this year at the Hove
Centre in one of the UK’s newest cities - Brighton and Hove.
Following the highly successful Centenary meeting
of the
Society, held in London last September, the Council of the
Society decided that residential meetings were one of the
most appropriate ways of enhancing the Society’s mission in
the furtherance
of our discipline. This decision was made
for several reasons - to bring the Fellowship together on a
regular basis thereby allowing a forum for scientific
exchange and networking; to provide a unique educational
forum through plenary sessions for Fellows to expand their
interests into other sub disciplines, to hear from the most
distinguished practitioners without the competing problems
that parallel sessions introduce; to provide a forum for
students interested in tropical medicine and related health
disciplines to learn and become engaged in the subject as a
potential career.
I am indebted to the Society Meetings Committee for all
their hard work, especially Dr. Melanie Newport who has been
at the “sharp end” of the organisation in Brighton and who
has developed such an exciting programme around some
outstanding contributors and Hampton Medical Conferences
Ltd., the Conference Organisers for their assistance in the
local planning.
Brighton and Hove is an ideal conference venue and UK
political parties have used this seaside environment for
decades as the favourite conference location. Brighton and
Hove is easily accessible from London’s Heathrow and Gatwick
Airports, has bracing seaside air, many cultural attractions
and a vibrant academic community including one of the UK’s
newest medical schools.
I look forward to welcoming you to Brighton in September.
Please spread the message and encourage colleagues to
attend. The Society particularly welcomes students
interested in the ever expanding field of international
health as it seeks to further the impact it has on the
poorest people in addressing the Millennium Development
Goals.
David Molyneux,
President of the RSTMH
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK