Peter 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 where he is also the Director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics.
and we're alive how are you sir how are you good to see you again i'm thrilled to be here thanks
for doing this man thanks for having me i know i should tell people before we get started i did not
know when i asked you to come back on that you were heavily involved in this whole vaccine debate
what i wanted to have you on to talk about is tropical diseases because i remember when we did
that sci-fi show um you explained to me that some ungodly percentage of people that live in tropical
climates are infected by parasites that's right well my day job is developing vaccines for tropical
diseases we develop the vaccines no one else will make because of the for the world's poorest people
so we call them tropical diseases but there really are diseases of poverty the vaccine issue the the
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