The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of 13 major disabling conditions that are among the most common chronic infections in the world's poorest people. A blueprint for the control or elimination of the most prevalent NTDs has been established by a group of private, public, and international organizations working together with pharmaceutical partners and national ministries of health. Integrated NTD control and advances in vaccine development provide new opportunities for the control and elimination of NTDs in developing countries.
Peter Hotez is President of the Sabin Vaccine Institute and Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine at The George Washington University, where his major research and academic interest is in the area of vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases and their control. The Sabin Vaccine Institute is a non-profit medical research and advocacy organization. Through the Institute, Dr. Hotez founded the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative, a product development partnership supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to develop a recombinant vaccine for human hookworm disease, and the Global Network for Tropical Neglected Diseases Control, a new partnership formed to facilitate the control of neglected tropical diseases in developing countries. He is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Tropical Neglected Diseases. Dr. Hotez is the recipient of the Henry Baldwin Ward Medal from the American Society for Parasitologists, the Bailey Ashford Medal of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the Leverhulme Medal of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He is an Ambassador of the Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP). He is the author of over 200 articles and books, including both technical and policy papers in the New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Science, PLoS Medicine, Washington Post, and Foreign Policy. Dr. Hotez is a native of Hartford, Connecticut. He obtained his B.A. degree in Molecular Biophysics Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University (1980) and his MD and PhD from the medical scientist-training program at Weill Cornell Medical College and The Rockefeller University. After completing his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Hotez returned to Yale University where he was on the faculty for 12 years, before joining GWU in 2000.
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Peter Hotez, MD, PhD
