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Celebrating the 100th Volume of AJTMH

Milestone a 'testament to the tropical medicine community'

 

With the January 2019 issue, the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene celebrates its 100th volume. This milestone was forged in 1952, when today’s Journal was created with the merger of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and the Journal of the National Malaria Society. (The Journal later moved from one to two volumes per year.)

 

“The new Journal, more comprehensive than the old in the expanded compass and its interests, hopes to offer its readers a broader sweep and richer content than before,” wrote L.W. Hackett, the first editor of AJTMH and ASTMH President in 1959.

 

From now through June we will share other fun facts and moments of history from the Journal.

 

“This three-digit milestone is testament to longstanding contributions from the growing relevance of the tropical medicine community to today’s interconnected world,” said Philip Rosenthal, MD, FASTMH, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal since 2014. “As a result, the Journal is strong, with dozens of valuable reports each month. We look forward to many more years of contributing to tropical medicine and public health research as we work to eliminate many of our world’s great disease problems.”

 

 

From the Archives

January 1952: Announcing a New Journal

 

Courtesy Wellcome Trust

The merger of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and the Journal of the National Malaria Society in 1952 was coincident with the dissolution of the National Malaria Society after the elimination of autochthonous malaria in the United States.

 

“The fusion came about quite naturally as a consequence of the amalgamation of the two Societies of which these journals were the official organs," wrote editor L.W. Hackett (pictured) in the inaugural issue. "Both the perpetuation and the blending of interests and activities which this union brings about are now particularly desirable and opportune. For the disappearance of malaria as a public health problem in the United States, and the dissolution of the National Malaria Society does not signify in any way a cessation of interest in it as a disease.”

 

Dr. Hackett was an American physician who worked in Italy and South America to combat malaria, according to . He experimented with DDT against Anopheles mosquitoes and co-founded the School of Malariology in Nettuno, Rome. He also was President of ASTMH in 1959.

 

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