Inside ASTMH

Reserve your room for the 2024 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Discounted rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis through October 18. 

We have plenary speakers scheduled each day during our Annual Meeting, November 13-17, in New Orleans, including our Opening Session Keynote, Monique Wasunna (pictured); other plenary speakers include Paulin Basinga, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Jean William "Bill" Pape and ASTMH President Linnie Golightly.

Read the October 2024 DC/Global Policy update here.

Read the September 2024 DC/Global Policy update here.

Every dollar spent on neglected disease research and development (R&D) and developing life-saving products returns $405 in wider societal and economic gain, according to the new The Impact of Global Health R&D report. A Q&A with Policy Cures Research analyst Paul Barnsley about those findings.

The Society mourns the loss of Larry Ash, PhD, professor emeritus of infectious and tropical diseases in the Department of Epidemiology at UCLA and a member of ASTMH since 1956.

Read the August 2024 DC/Global Policy update here.

ASTMH voters have spoken. Our newly elected officers taking their seats in November are: President-Elect Terrie E. Taylor, DO (pictured), and three new members of the Board of Directors: Mark Kortepeter, MD, MPH, FASTMH, Pauline Mwinzi, PhD, and Christina Paraggio, BS, BA, PhD student.