Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. is Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Hotez is also the co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics, Fellow in Disease and Poverty at the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at Texas A&M University, Faculty Fellow with the Hagler Institute for Advanced Studies at Texas A&M University, Health Policy Scholar in the Baylor Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and is on the Board of Governors for the U.S. Israel Binational Science Foundation, which is run out of the State Department. He is an internationally recognized physician-scientist with expertise in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development, and author of the acclaimed book Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases (2013).