Inside ASTMH

The Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a crisis of international magnitude in the making. ASTMH is alarmed at the lack of attention and funding this outbreak has received. We are eager to work with decision-makers, government leaders, researchers, NGOs and community health workers in a worldwide collaborative program to bring this terrible outbreak to an end.

Read the May 2019 Washington, DC update here.

In February, ASTMH became a self-managed Society. We are using this occasion to introduce the Society's staff, like Judy DeAcetis, Administrator.

"For those of us who live with it, malaria is a personal engagement because we have suffered from it and we see people around us day in and day out suffering from it.” -- ASTMH Board Member Abdoulaye Djimde on being driven to drive malaria out of Africa. 

 A few months into being President of ASTMH, Chandy John offers a very brief summary of progress. 

Scott B. Halstead, MD, FASTMH, Past President of ASTMH, is one of the world’s foremost authorities on viruses spread by mosquitoes, including dengue, and was the first to describe the phenomenon known as "immune enhancement" associated with dengue infections.

Read the April 2019 Washington, DC update here

In February, ASTMH became a self-managed Society. We are using this occasion to introduce the Society's staff, like Lyn Maddox, VP Meetings.