Presidential Addresses
2023
Presidents’ Address: A Forward Look from the Society’s Present and Past Presidents
Daniel G. Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, FASTMH, Julie Jacobson, MD, DTM&H, FASTMH,
Chandy C. John, MD, MS, FASTMH, N. Regina Rabinovich, MD, FASTMH,
David H. Walker, MD, FASTMH, and James W. Kazura, MD, FASTMH
2022
ASTMH - A Means to What End? (print)
ASTMH - A Means to What End? (video)
Daniel G. Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, FASTMH
2021
Brave New World (print)
Brave New World (video)
Julie Jacobson, MD, DTM&H, FASTMH
2020
Smallpox Eradication: African Origin, African Solutions and Relevance for Covid-19 (print)
Smallpox Eradication: African Origin, African Solutions and Relevance for Covid-19 (video)
Joel G. Breman, MD, DTPH, FIDSA, FASTMH
2019
Something Small That Matters (print)
Something Small That Matters (video)
Chandy C. John, MD, MS, FASTMH
2018
The 13th Grape (audio/slides)
N. Regina Rabinovich, MD, FASTMH
2017
Migration Medicine: Notes on a Young Science (print)
Migration Medicine: Notes on a Young Science (audio/slides)
Patricia F. Walker, MD, DTM&H, FASTMH
2016
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (print)
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (audio/slides)
Stephen Higgs, PhD, FRES, FASTMH
2015
Tropical Medicine in War and Peace
Christopher V. Plowe, MD, MPH, FASTMH
2014
The Momentum of Progress: ASTMH and the Grand Convergence (audio/slides)
Alan J. Magill, MD, FASTMH
2013
After Malaria is Controlled, What's Next?
David H. Walker, MD, FASTMH
2012
Evolution and "Near" Future of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Circa 2012
(not available at this time)
James W. Kazura, MD, FASTMH
2011
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Tropical Medicine in the Fight Against Plague, Death, Famine and War
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, FASTMH
2010
Eyes on the Prize: Lessons from the Cholera Wars for Modern Scientists, Physicians and Public Health Officials
Edward T. Ryan, MD, DTM&H, FASTMH
2009
Optimism, Persistence and Our Collective Crystal Ball
Thomas E. Wellems, MD, PhD, FASTMH
2008
Mindshare: What the Heck Is It? Why Do We Need It? How Do We Get It?
Claire Panosian Dunavan, MD, DTM&H, FASTMH
2007
Africa Tells Us the Story: What Success in Malaria Control Means, Now and in the Future
Carlos (Kent) C. Campbell, MD, MPH, FASTMH
2006
Once Upon a Time, About 50,000 Years Ago
(not available at this time)
Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH, FASTMH
2005
Virology and Tropical Medicine: Then, Now and Whither
Thomas Monath, MD, FASTMH
2004
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene: Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(not available at this time)
Peter Weller, MD, FASTMH
2003
America in the World: 100 Years of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
William Petri Jr., MD, PhD, FASTMH
Powerpoint (ppt format)
2002
Diseases without Borders: Globalization's Challenge to the ASTMH: A Call for Public Advocacy and Activism
Michele Barry, MD, FACP, FASTMH
2001
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in the Last Half Century: From Apparent Anachronism to International Leader and Innovator
Stephen L. Hoffman, MD, DTM&H, FASTMH
2000
Prevention and Control of Tropical Diseases in the 21st Century: Back to the Field
Duane J. Gubler, ScD, FASTMH
1999
Tropical Diseases in the 21st Century: New Perils, New Promise
(not available at this time)
Dyann Wirth, PhD, FASTMH
1998
Making the Connection: Perspectives on Tropical Medicine Research in the United States
Stephanie L. James, PhD, FASTMH
1997
Why Americans Must Care about Tropical Medicine: Threats to Global Health and Security from Tropical Infectious Diseases
(not available at this time)
Richard L. Guerrant, MD, FASTMH
1996
Sing for the Gov'nor: A Call to Advocacy for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Donald S. Burke, MD, FASTMH
1995
Tropical Diseases: New Peril, New Promise
Carole A. Long, PhD, FASTMH
1994
The Slow Fix: Communities, Research, and Disease Control
Barnett L. Cline, MD, PhD, MPH, FASTMH
1993
"Targeted Research": An Oxymoron That Needs to be Discussed
Daniel G. Colley, PhD, FASTMH
1992
Charting a Course for the Future: A Society at the Interface
Donald J. Krogstad, MD, FASTMH
1991
"...And Hygiene?" Our Once and Future Mission
Scott B. Halstead, MD, FASTMH
1990
The Citizen-Scientist: An Essential Species for Our Times
John R. David, MD, FASTMH
1989
Discover and Disease Control
Louis H. Miller, MD, FASTMH
1988
A Pathologist's Look at Infectious Diseases: Selection by AIDS and Other Infections, Clinical Types of Immunities and Vaccine Expecations
Jacob K. Frenkel, MD, PhD
1987
Tropical Medicine and Health in a Developing World
Joseph A. Cook, MD, FASTMH
1986
What Brings Us Together
Franz von Lichtenberg, MD
1985
Filariasis: Problems and Challenges
Paul P. Weinstein
1984
Whither This House - or Wither?
Karl M. Johnson, MD, FASTMH
1983
Excellence in Research is Not Enough
Philip K. Russell, MD, FASTMH
1981
From Whence the Next Generation?
William F. Scherer
1980
Opportunities and Responsibilities of the Reference Center
Robert E. Shope
1979
Cultivating Friends and Parasites
William Trager
1976
The Emperor's New Clothes Revisited, or Reflections of the Pathogenesis of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
Leon Rosen
1975
Malaria Control in the Twentieth Century
Geoffrey M. Jeffery
1974
Our Society - An Entomologist's Perspective
Lloyd E. Roseboom
1973
An Innocent Abroad
Harold W. Brown
1972
The Challenge of Drug-Resistant Malaria
Paul E. Thompson
1971
Can the War to Contain Infectious Diseases Be Lost?
William C. Reeves
1970
Japanese B - West Nile Complex: An Arbovirus Problem of Six Continents
(not available at this time)
Telford H. Work
1967
Manhattan: "A Tropic Isle"?
Harry Most
1966
The Present Understanding of the Mechanism of Immunity to Trichinella Spiralis
John E. Larch, Jr.
1965
How Much Control of Communicable Diseases?
E. Harold Hinman
1964
Tropical Medicine: Obligations and Responsibilities
Thomas H. Weller
1963
Unfinished Business
Clay G. Huff
1962
Pitfalls in a Discovery: The Chronicle of Chloroquine
G. Robert Coatney
1961
International Medicine: Developments in the Field of Tropical Medicine, Research and Training
William W. Frye
1960
Tropical Medicine in Our Time: Development, Responsibilities and Needs
Willard H. Wright
1959
Once Upon a Time
L.W. Hackett
1958
The Worm Turned - Action and Reaction
Donald L. Augustine
1957
Tropical Allergens and Allergic Diseases
Jusin M. Andrews
1956
Interrelations Between Nutrition and Infectious Disease in the Tropics
Asa C. Chandler
1955
Functions of the Spleen in Immunity
William H. Taliaferro
1954
Importance of Tropical Medicine
Frederick J. Brady
1953
Our Future
Wm. A. Sodeman
1952
Malaria During the Last Decade
Martin D. Young
1951
Public Health Practice and Population Pressure in the Tropics
Paul F. Russell
1950
Opportunities for Graduate Study and Research in the Tropics
Hamilton H. Anderson
1949
The Federal Government Looks at Medical Research
Norman Topping
1948
Suggestions for the Future
George Cheever Shattuck
1947
United Attack on Tropical Problems
George K. Strode
1946
Tropical Medicine and the Challenge of Global War
James Stevens Simmons
1945
International Appraisal of Research of Tropical Medicine
Mark F. Boyd
1944
Wilbur A. Sawyer
The Place of Tropical Medicine in International Health
1943
A Broader Perspective for Bacteriology: Presidential Address
N. Paul Hudson
1942
Some Impressions of Medical Practice in the Tropics
Herbert C. Clark
1941
Florence Nightingale and Tropical and Military Medicine: Presidential Address, American Society of Tropical Medicine
Thomas T. Mackie
1940
Malaria on the China Burma Highway
Louis L. Williams, Jr.
1939
The Future of Tropical Medicine
Alfred C. Reed
1938
Malaria: Retrospect and Prospect
Mark F. Boyd
1937
The Importance of Environment in the Study of Tropical Diseases: Presidential Address of the American Academy of Tropical Medicine
Wilbur A. Sawyer
1936
The Modern Period of Tropical Medicine
Richard P. Strong
1935
The Necessity for More Accurate Statistics Regarding the Distribution and Incidence of Tropical Diseases in the United States
Charles F. Craig
1934
The Educational Background for the Practice of Tropical Medicine
Frederick F. Russell
1933
The Differential Pathology of Dysentery
George R. Callender
1932
(not available at this time)
Frank Smithies
1931
Present Status of the Treatment of Amebiasis
(unable to deliver address)
Sidney K. Simon
1930
(not available at this time)
Kenneth M. Lynch
1929
Recent Developments in the Control of Malaria
(not available at this time)
W.E. Deeks
1928
Presidential Address
C.S. Butler
1927
The Present Status of Tropical Medicine in the United States
George C. Shattuck
1926
(not available at this time)
Joseph F. Siler
1925
Comparative Helminthology as an Aid in the Solution of Etmological Problems
Samuel T. Darling
1924
(not available at this time)
Allen J. Smith
1921
Presidential Address
John M. Swan
1920
Presidential Address
Henry J. Nichols