ASTMH Annual Meeting 2021

Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, FASTMH, recently assumed the ASTMH presidency for 2022. Dr. Bausch also served for six years as ASTMH Scientific Program Chair and prior to that was a member of the ASTMH Board. He is currently Director of Emerging Threats & Global Health Security at FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics. Dr. Bausch specializes in emerging tropical viruses, with over 25 years of experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia combating viruses such as Ebola, Lassa, hantavirus and SARS coronaviruses. He has previously served as Director of the United Kingdom’s Public Health Rapid Support and also has held posts at the WHO, the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 in Lima, Peru, the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the CDC.

By: Matthew Davis, Burness