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Editors-in-Chief
Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)
Rojelio Mejia, MD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)
 

Sections and Section Editors

CNS Infections in Tropical and Subtropical Settings

Carlos Franco-Paredes, MD (University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA)

Emerging Tropical Diseases
Kelli Barr, PhD (University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA)

Giardia/Crypto
Sitara SR Ajjampur, PhD (The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India)

HIV and Tropical Medicine 
Rodrigo Ville Benavides, MSc (Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico)

Hot Topics in Tropical Medicine
Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)
Rojelio Mejia, MD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)

Metabolism in Tropical Medicine
Karen Schlosser-Montes (Francisco Marroquin University, Guatemala)

Neglected Diseases of the Americas
Ana Sanchez, PhD (Brock University, Ontario, Canada)
Ariel Toloza, PhD (CIPEIN-CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Pediatric Global Health
Diane Nguyen, PharmD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)
Anna Mandalakas, MD, MSEpi, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)
Rogers Ssebunya, MPH, PGM&E (Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation, Kampala, Uganda)

Social Impact of Poverty and Tropical Diseases
Christy Blackburn, PhD (Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA)

Tropical Medicine in the Mediterranean Region 
Fabrizio Bruschi, MD (University of Pisa, Italy)

Tropical Mycoses
Luis Martinez, PhD (University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA)


Editorial Board
Mashal Almutairi, PhD (King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)

Ibrahim Bani, BTM&H, PhD (Ajman University College of Medicine, Ajman, United Arab Emirates)

Yaya Ibrahim Coulibaly, MD, MPH (Faculty of Medicine of Bamako, Bamako, Mali)

Alfredo G. Torres, PhD (UTMB-Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA)

Laila Woc-Colburn, MD (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

Past Sections and Section Editors

Amazonian Diseases in Isolate Populations
Mathieu Nacher, MD, PhD (Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne, Cayenne, French Guiana, France)

Bacterial Tropical Medicine
Soumya Chatterjee, MS, MD (Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA)

Chagas
Melissa Nolan, PhD (University of South Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina, USA)

CNS Infections in Tropical Settings
Carlos Franco-Paredes, MD (University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA)

Cutaneous Mycobacterial Diseases of the Skin and Soft Tissue
Carlos Franco-Paredes, MD, (University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA)

COVID-19 in the Tropics: Impacts and Solutions
Alfonso Javier Rodriguez-Morales, MD (Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia) 

Entamoeba Histolytica
Zannatun Noor, PhD (International Center for Diarrheal Disease and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

Giardia (Protozoa)
Steven Singer, PhD (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA)

HIV in the Tropical Setting
Bozena Morawski, MPH, PhD (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA)

Leptospirosis in Mesoamerica
Melissa Garcia, PhD, MPH (University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, USA)

Malaria in Central America and Hispaniola
Ana Sanchez, PhD (Brock University, Ontario, Canada)
Gustavo Fontecha, PhD (National Autonomous University of Honduras, Honduras, Central America)

Massive Gathering Events and COVID-19
Mashal M. Almutairi, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)

Melioidosis and Tropical Bacteriology
Alfredo Torres, MS, PhD (The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA)

Protozoa
Luther Bartelt, MD (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA)

Rickettsia
Job Lopez, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)

Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in Returning Travelers from the Tropics
Carlos Franco-Paredes, MD, (University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA)

Topics Exploring Loa-loa, Onchocerciasis, Hookworm, Ascaris, Trichuris
Anna Sanchez, PhD (Brock University, Ontario, Canada)
Ricardo Toshio Fujiwara, PhD (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Tropical Dermatology
Thuy Phung, MD, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)

Tropical Diseases in Colombia
Alejandro Restrapo, MD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)

Tropical Diseases in Conflict Regions
Ibrahim Ahmed Bani, MD, DTM&H, PhD (Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

Tropical Diseases in Mozambique
Berta Grau-Pujol, PhD (Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona)

Tropical Medicine in Saudi Arabia 
Mashal M. Almutairi, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)

Tropical Medicine Updates 
Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)
Rojelio Mejia, MD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)

Tropical Parasitology
Anna Sanchez, PhD (Brock University, Ontario, Canada)

Vaccines in Pregnant Women & Infants
David Schwartz, MD, MS Hyg (Georgia Regents University - Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, USA) 
Carleigh Krubiner, PhD (Center for Global Development, Washington, DC, USA)

Viral Tropical Medicine
Coreen M. Beaumier, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)

The Placenta, Tropical Diseases, and Pregnancies
David Schwartz, MD, MS Hyg (Georgia Regents University - Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia, USA) 

Emerging Vector Borne Diseases in the U.S.
Jennifer K. Peterson, PhD (University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA)

Vector Borne Diseases and Associated Diseases
Aparna Krishnavajhala, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA)

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