Barnett Cline, Professor Emeritus, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, is a former Chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine, former president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and a former member of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.

His academic degrees include A.B. (Columbia College), M.D. (Baylor College of Medicine), MPH (Johns Hopkins University) and Ph.D. in Epidemiology (University of California, Berkeley). He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Preventive Medicine and also was holds the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health.

Working for the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and heading an active teaching and research program at Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, he has conducted extensive research and published some 100 articles, mostly on tropical infectious diseases in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. His research interests focus primary on the epidemiology and control of a range of neglected tropical diseases, including schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, dracunculiasis, soil-transmitted helminths, and lymphatic filariasis. From 1998 to 2002, as a member of the World Health Organization’s Program Review Group for the Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis,

Dr. Cline was actively involved with the evolution of this massive global initiative. From 2002 to 2008 he also served on the Regional Program Review Groups for Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination for both PAHO and for WHO’s African Region. He continues to participate actively in an NGO program in Ecuador, and serves as a reviewer for several scientific journals.