Previous TMDC Events

October 2016 - "The state of Dengue vaccine development: Do we or don't we have a vaccine?"
Anna Durbin, MD
Department of International Health, Division of Global Disease Epidemiology and Control
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
And
"Investigation of the function of the CSP repeat region: target of the malaria vaccine"
Amanda Balaban, BS
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

April 2016 - “Dengue fever and the struggle for Urban spaces: Lessons for controlling the Zika Virus”
Randall Packard, PhD
William Henry Welch Professor & Director, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

March 2016 - “Zika Virus”
Matthew R. Kasper, PhD
Director, Field Laboratory Operations, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD

February 2016 - “Best (and 1st) Ever Tropical Medicine Dinner Club of Baltimore Trivia Contest”
Robert DeFraites, MD, MPH
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
And
Emily Ricotta, MS
Johns Hopkins University (CCP)

December 2015 - “Product development for low resource settings: Malaria vaccines and more”
David Kaslow, MD
Vice President, Product Development, PATH

November 2015 - “MERS Coronavirus Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Development”
Matthew Frieman, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine

October 2015 – “Viruses and Epidemics with emphasis on HIV/AIDS: Perspectives from the Past – Challenges for the Future”
Robert Gallo, MD
Professor & Director Institute of Human Virology, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine

May 2015 - “Clofazimine: the past or the future of tuberculosis treatment”
Jacques Grosset, MD
Professor, Center for Tuberculosis Research, Department of Medicine; Division of Infectious Diseases
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

April 2015 - “Impact on immunity to insect salivary proteins in Leishmaniasis: from basic science to translational research”
Jesus G. Valenzuela, PhD
Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease

March 2015 – “Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis: A quick review and a continuation of my talk 3 years ago”
Arthur Dannenberg, MD
Professor, Department of Environmental Health Science, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

February 2015 - “Resistance of Anopheles stephensis to Plasmodium vivax”
Andrew Pike
2014 Simpson Student Award Lecture; Graduate Student, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

January 2015 – “SAGES: A disease surveillance solution for resource limited settings”
Sheri Lewis, MS
Principal Professional Staff, Global Health Surveillance Program Manger, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

December 2014 - “Malaria: Is It a Focal Disease”
Clive Shiff
Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

October 2014 – “West Africa Ebola Outbreak: Updates and Impressions from the Field”
James Lawler, PhD
Chief , Clinical Research; Director, The Austere Environment Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes (ACESO), US Navy Medical Research Center

May 2014 – “ ‘The American Plague’ (1793-1798): its impact on medicine, public health, and social progress”
David Morens, MD
Epidemiologist, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases/NIH, Bethesda, MD

April 2014 - “Top Ten Tropical Medicine Stories in Uganda, 2007-2012: The Campbell/Manabe Experience”
James D. Campbell, MD, MS
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Yukari C. Manabe, MD
Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

March 2014 - "Blood fluke subversion of host immunity"  
Stephen Davies, BVSc,PhD,
Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; Director, Emerging Infectious Diseases Graduate Program Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

February 2014 - "Characterization of malaria diversity in the context of HIV infection in a holoendemic region in Kenya"
Robin Miller                      
Emerging Infectious Diseases Graduate Program Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

January 2014 - “Lessons learned in training Global South and Global North Physicians together in Africa: The East Africa diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene?”
Noreen Hynes, MD, MPH, DTM&H                           
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases & Public Health; Director, Geographic Medicine Ctr. for the Div. of Public Health; Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

December 2013 - “Global decline in Meningococcal disease: In the throes of a major public health victory?”
Lee H. Harrison, MD                      
Professor Department of Epidemiology and Medicine University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and School of Medicine

November 2013 - “Burkitt lymphoma and malaria: how strong is the evidence?”    
Sam Mbulaiteye, MD
Senior Investigator, National Cancer Institute; Div of Cancer, Epidemiology & Genetics, Infections & Immunoepidemiology Branch The Epidemiology of Burkitt Lymphoma in East-African Children and Minors (EMBLEM)

October 2013 – “Impact of immunity to Sand Fly salvia on Leishmaniasis”
Jesus Valenzuela, PhD                   
Chief, Vector Molecular Biology Section National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health

May 2013           
Philip A. Mackowiak, MD, MBA                  
Professor, Vice Chair Department of Medicine Chief, Medical Care Clinical Center VA MD Health Care System

April 2013 – “Impact of national communication programs on HIV prevention behavior in South Africa”
D. Larry Kincaid, PhD                     
Associate Scientist JHU Center for Communication Programs
February 2013 – “Norovirus epidemiology and control”
Sarah-Blythe Ballard, MD, MPH                 
2012 Simpson Student Fund Awardee Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health

January 2013 – “The Southern Africa International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research”              
William Moss, MD, MPH               
Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology

December 2012
Keith West, DrPH, MPH                 
Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health

November 2012 – “Force Health Protection in Afghanistan: Rabies and other challenges”   
Jean Paul Chretien, MD, PhD, MHS                           
Lieutenant Commander Medical Corps, US Navy Deputy Director, Div. of Integrated Biosurveillance DoD/Armed Forces Health Surveillance Ctr AFHSC Silver Spring, Maryland

October 2012 – “It's 11p.m.: Do you know where your bednet is? The social life of insecticide-treated nets and other oddities from the world of community-based malaria control”
Steven Harvey, PhD, MHS                            
Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health

May 2012 – “AIDS in Africa: A 30 Year Retrospective and Prospects for the Future”
Dr. Thomas Quinn                          
Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health Associate Director of International Research, NIH/NIAID Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Baltimore, MD

April 2012           
Jason Rasgon, PhD                         
Associate Professor Penn State Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics
                                            
March 2012 - "Estimating the impact of scaling up interventions on maternal and child health: The lives saved tool (LiST)"           
Neff Walker, PhD                           
Senior Scientist Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health

February 2012 - "Challenges to Providing Full Coverage with Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACTs) in Ghana"              
Sarah Dalglish                   
2011 Simpson Student Fund recipient Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD

January 2012 - "Rickettsial diseases research at the Naval Medical Research Center"            
Allen Richards, PhD                        
Naval Medical Research Center Silver Spring, MD

November 2011 - "Dengue Vaccine Development - How Close are We"      
Anna Durbin, MD                            
Associate Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health

October 2011 – “Rethinking Malaria Vaccines: Can We Expect Anything Useful to Control Malaria”
Clive Shiff, PhD                 
Associate Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology

May 2011 – “TB: The invisible global health emergency”   
Dr. William Bishai            
Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research Johns Hopkins Medical Institute

April 2011 - "Bridging Animal and Human Health in the development of vaccines and therapeutics against Hendra virus and Nipah virus"      
Dr. Chris Broder
Professor and Program Director Uniformed Services University Bethesda, MD         

March 2011 - "Surveillance for Artemisinin Resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Southeast Asia--the DoD experience"      
Dr. Mark M. Fukuda                       
Colonel, Malaria Program Director Assistant Chief Division of GEIS Operations Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center

February 2011 - "How FDA Regulates and Reviews the pre-Market and post-Market Performance of Devices for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases"          
Dr. Sally Hojvat US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
"Detection and characterization of Culex flavivirus transmission in Zambian Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes"    
Paul Maurizio
2010 Simpson Student Awardee; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology

January 2011 - "The Trajectory of Dengue in Southeast Asia"          
Derek Cummings, PhD, MPHm MSC                         
Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health

December 2010 - “We CAN prevent mortality from preeclampsia”             
Dr. Harshad Sanghvi                       
Vice President & Medical Director JHPIEGO, an Affiliate of Johns Hopkins University

November 2010 - "Male Circumcision: A short cut to HIV/STI prevention?"
Ronald Gray, MD and Maria Wawer, MD, MHS                    
Professors Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

October 2010 – “Changing Malaria Transmission in Southern Zambia and Implications for Elimination”
Dr. William Moss                            
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public health Department of Epidemiology Baltimore, MD

May 2010 - "Health System Strengthening: An Update"     
Peter Berman, MSc, PhD               
Lead Health Economist Adjunct Professor of Global Health & Population Harvard School of Public Health The World Bank Washington, DC

March 2010 - "Cultural Dermatology: An Anthropological View of Cutaneous Modification in the Tropics"
Dr. Scott Norton
                             
March 2010 - "Reduction in Bacterial Infections Incidence in Children with Malaria in Blantyre, Malawi"
Cassidy Claassen, MD, MPH
Department of Medicine Yale New-Haven Hospital New Haven, Connecticut; 2008 Simpson Student Fund Recipient                 
"Anopheline Foraging Behavior in an Area with Recent ITN Introduction in Southern Zamiba"
Christen Fornadel
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; 2008 Simpson Student Fund Recipient

February 2010 - "Population Biology of Enteric Pathogens"             
James P. Nataro, MD, PhD, MBA               
Head, Division of Infectious Diseases & Tropical Pediatrics Vice Chair & Professor Department of Pediatrics Associate Director, Center for Vaccine Development University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD

January 2010 - "Sleeping with my (mycobacterial) enemy"
Jacques Grosset, MD                     
Center for Tuberculosis Research Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Johns Hopkins Medical Institution Baltimore, MD

December 2009 - "Everything You Wanted to Know About Yersinia pestis but were Afraid to Ask"
Luther Lindler, PhD                         
Public Health Laboratory Services Consultant DoD-Global Emerging Infections System Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center Silver Spring, MD

November 2009
Ruth Karron, MD                             
Director, Center for Immunization Research & Johns Hopkins Vaccine Initiative Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health Baltimore, MD

November 2009 – “Dreaming of Malaria Elimination. Is There a Role for a Malaria Transmission Blocking Vaccine?”
Nirbhay Kumar, PhD                       
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD

May 2009 - "Acute Flaccid Paralysis: Lessons from the Developing World" 
Dr. John (Jack) Griffin                    
Professor, Department of Neurology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

April 2009 - "Public Private Partnerships in International Development"      
Charles Knirsch, MD                       
Vice President, Pfizer, Inc; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University

March 2009 - "Malaria Control - Indoor Residual Spraying & DDT"               
Dr. Clive Shiff
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute     

February 2009 - "The Application of Foreign Tropical Infectious Disease Intelligence to US Medical Diplomacy"        
Dr. Kathryn Clark                            
Defense Intelligence Agency National Center for Medical Intelligence Fort Detrick, MD

January 2009 - "Challenges in Chagas Disease"     
Dr. Robert Gilman                          
Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health

December 2008 - "Private Sector Health Development Dimensions and Options - A New Perspectives in Tropical Health"  
Dr. Ok Pannenborg                         
Chief, Health Advisor of the World Bank The World Bank Group Washington, DC

November 2008 - "Curiouser and Curiouser: The Quirky Epidemiology of Hepatitis E Virus in Bangladesh"      
Dr. Alain Labrique
Assistant Professor, Department of International Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

October 2008 – “Itching for Rejection: The Development of Saliva-based Anti-tick Vaccines”
Jennifer Anderson, PhD                 
National Institutes of Health National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases

May 2008 – “Global Health in the 21st Century: New Direction”    
Roger Glass, MD, PhD                   
Associate Director for International Research Director, Fogarty International Center National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD

April 2008 – “HIV-1 Vaccines: Challenges and New Approaches”    
Dr. Sara Schlesinger                       
Research Associate Professor Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center New York, NY

March 2008 – “Mechanisms by Which Chronic Helminth Infections May Control Autoimmune and Allergic Diseases-Insights from Investigations Conducted with Litomosoides Sigmodontis”
Dr. Edward Mitre                            
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Department of Microbiology & Immunology Bethesda, MD

February 2008 – “Issues in Developing New Drugs and Vaccines for Tuberculosis”
Dr. Larry Geiter
Senior Director, TB Products Unit, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc Rockville, MD

January 2008 – “Implementing an Electronic Surveillance System: Challenges for the Developing World”
Dr. Cecilia Mundaca                       
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Previous Head of Electronic Surveillance Center, US NMRCD Lima-Peru Bethesda, MD

December 2007 - “Neglected Tropical Diseases: New Tools and Promises for their Control”              
Dr. Peter Hotez                
Walter G. Ross Chair and Professor, The George Washington University Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine Washington, DC

November 2007 – “Survival after HIV Infection in Developing Countries Prior to HAART”
Dr. Kenrad Nelson                          
Professor, Department of Epidemiology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD

October 2007 – “A Weakness for Sweets: The Role of Protein-Glycan Interactions in Malaria Transmission”
Dr. Rhoel Dinglasan                       
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD

May 2007 – “Global HIV Pandemic”
Dr. Thomas Quinn
Professor of Medicine, International Health, Epidemiology, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Director, Johns Hopkins center for Global Health The Johns Hopkins University                             

April 2007 – “Studies of Viral Infections, Aflatoxin and Liver Cancer”
John Groopman, PhD                     
Professor & Chair Environmental Health Sciences Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, MD

April 2007 – “The Natural History of HIV Infection in Africa & South East Asia”
Kenrad Nelson,MD          
Professor Johns Hopkins University Department of Epidemiology Baltimore, MD    

February 2007 – “From the Bench to the Field: Understanding the Role of Immunity to Vector Saliva in Leishmaniasis” 
Jesus Valenzuela, PhD                   
Head Vector Molecular Biology Unit Laboratory of Malaria & Vector Research National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Rockville, MD

January 2007 – “The DoD Overseas Laboratories - Recent Infectious Disease Surveillance and Response Activities”
Jean-Paul Chretien          
Assistant Coordinator Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Silver Spring, Maryland          

December 2006 - “Influenza Pandemics of the 20th Century: Implications for Preparedness”
Dr. John Brundage                          
Senior Physician Department of Epidemiology Army Medical Surveillance Activity Washington, DC

November 2006 – “Cause or Coincidence? Changing Patterns of Hospital Malaria Case Load after Introduction of Artemisinin Combination Therapy in Zambia”
Phil Thuma, PhD               
Director Malaria Institute at Macha Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Choma, Zambia

October 2006 – “Responding to Infectious Disease Threats in Burma: Dilemmas of Policy and Practice
Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH                 
Associate Professor Epidemiology and International Health Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland

April 2006 – “Big Business, MDGs, and Global Health”       
Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS                           
Dean Emeritus and Professor, Epidemiology, Ophthalmology, and International Health Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland

March 2006 – “Exclusive Breastfeeding & HIV: When Greater Exposure Leads to Less Transmission”
Kevin Lunney                    
1st Awardee of the Simpson Student Fund University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, MD

February 2006 – “Gammaherpesvirus Associated Tumors”
Dr. Richard Ambinder                    
Professor, Department of Oncology Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

January 2006 – “American Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Clinical Features, Epidemiology and Perspective from Brazil”
James Maguire, PhD                      
Head, Division of International Health EPM International Health University of Maryland School of Medicine

December 2005 – “Initiating Entomological Studies in an Area of Hyperendemic Malaria Transmission in Southern Zambia”
Rebekah Kent                   
PhD Candidate Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland

November 2005 – “Lyme Disease”
John Aucott, MD                             
Instructor Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

October 2005 – “The Indian Ocean Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina: Lessons in Disaster Response”
Dr. W. Courtland Robinson                         
Assistant Professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of International Health Baltimore, Maryland

May 2005 – “The Mythologies of Dengue”
Dr. Scott Halstead           
Research Director Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative Rockville, MD

April 2005 – “Urinary Schistosomiasis - A Public Health Problem”
Jean Naples MD-PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health       
“A Prospective Trial of Daily Cotrimoxazole Prophylaxis and the Development of Antimicrobial Resistance among HIV-infected Adults”
Christina Polyak
MPH Medical Student University of Maryland School of Medicine

March 2005 – “Drug Quality Issues in Developing Countries”
Dr. Nancy Blum                
Director, Global Assistance Initiatives U.S. Pharmacopeia Rockville, MD 20852

February 2005 – “Cryptosporidium Transmission Cycles”
Thaddeus Graczyk, PhD                 
Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland

January 2005 – “Characterization of the 1918 Spanish Influenza and Lessons for the Future”
Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger                             
Chair, Department of Molecular Pathology Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Rockville, MD

December 2004 – “Epidemiology & Natural History of HIV/AIDS in Thailand”
Kenrad E. Nelson, MD                   
Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology Baltimore, Maryland

November 2004 – “Primaquine: Past, Present and Potential”
Col. Alan J. Magill                           
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Silver Spring, MD

October 2004 - "Ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection: Prospects for elimination of blinding trachoma"          
Sheila West
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Wilmer Eye Institute

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