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| Scott B. Halstead, M.D. |
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 Scott
B. Halstead, M.D., is currently Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda,
Maryland and Consultant to the Health Equity Program,
the Rockefeller Foundation, New York. Dr. Halstead was
born in Lucknow, India to parents who were educators with
the Methodist Church. He graduated from Yale University
with a B.A. in 1951, from Columbia University with a M.D.
in 1955. After two years training in Internal Medicine
he was drafted into the U.S. Army Medical Corps, where
he served for eleven years at the Department of Virus
and Rickettsial Diseases, 406th Medical General Laboratory,
Zama, Japan, at the Department of Virus Diseases, Walter
Reed Army Institute of Research, the Virology Department,
SEATO Medical Research Laboratory, Bangkok, Thailand and
the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, New Haven, Connecticut.
In 1968, he was appointed Professor and Chair, Department
of Medical Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, University
of Hawaii School of Medicine. In 1983, he joined the Rockefeller
Foundation, serving successively as Associate, Deputy
and Acting Director of the Health Sciences Division. On
retirement in 1995, he was appointed Scientific Director,
Infectious Diseases Program, U.S. Navy, Bethesda, Maryland
and as Senior Scientist, Department of Molecular Microbiology
and Immunology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Halstead
is a world leader in research on dengue and other arthropod-borne
viral infections. He has been active in all aspects of
vaccine research and in international health development,
being co-founder of the Children’s Vaccine Initiative
in 1990 and coordinator of the International Clinical
Epidemiology Network from 1983-1995. He served regularly
since 1967 as consultant to the World Health Organization.
He served numerous editorial boards and consults with
private and public agencies. Publications include numerous
text book chapters and review articles, more than 200
papers published in international peer-reviewed scientific
journals. He is the recipient of the Langmuir and Smadel
Lectureships, was President of the American Society of
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (1991) and the International
Federation for Tropical Medicine (1992-1996), is a Member
of the American Academy Microbiology, has an honorary
DSc. from Mahidol University and is a recipient of the
R.M. Taylor Medal. He lives in North Bethesda, Maryland
with his wife, Edna, has three children and five grandchildren.
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