The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) announced that Sabin President Dr. Peter Hotez has assumed his role of president of the Society, “a worldwide organization of scientists, clinicians and program professionals whose mission is to promote global health through the prevention and control of infectious and other diseases that disproportionately afflict the global poor.”

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