Talk:Peter Hotez

Cleanup needed
This article is quite a mess, and appears to have been continuously edited by a series of single-purpose accounts, so a reminder to review WP:COI may be helpful. There are huge amounts of uncited text, there was a lot of off-topic content that belongs in other linked articles, there are indiscriminate lists (See WP:NOT), and there was a lot of unencyclopedic puffery. Let the man's quite obvious accomplishments speak for themselves, puffery isn't helpful, and please add citations and clean up the bare URLs. Opinions about his work cannot be sourced to his own work and require independent, third-party sources as well as attribution. MOS:ALLCAPS cleanup is also needed; there is more work to be done here than I can take on alone. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 16:43, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

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Request edit on 17 November 2017
Thank you Biografer, Theroadislong, ColinFine, and David Biddulph for your help and suggestions today! With regards to this article I have a clear conflict of interest (I have made minor edits to this bio but now realize that I wasn't really supposed to) as the subject of the article is my boss so I would appreciate further help. A lot of the puffery and uncited material has been removed but I fear the layout still is not logical. After looking at a bunch of other Wikipedia bios including other public health figures and researchers I would suggest this layout:

Contents Intro Early Life and Education Research and Career Awards and memberships Publications and media Personal life External links
 * Parasite research
 * Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
 * National School of Tropical Medicine
 * Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
 * US science envoy
 * Public figure--Ebola and Zika, vaccine hesitancy

The other problem in the text which has been deleted was a lack of good citations. I have added in what I think are good citations in the following suggested text (sorry, I don't think I did the header thing correctly):

Early life and education
Hotez was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and grew up in West Hartford. He received a BA in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry magna cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa) from Yale University in 1980, a PhD from Rockefeller University in 1986, and his MD (Doctorate in Medicine) from Weill Cornell Medical College in 1987. He obtained pediatric residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor Hotez is a diplomate certified in pediatrics.

Early Research
Hotez was awarded postdoctoral positions molecular parasitology and pediatric infectious diseases at Yale University School of Medicine, and subsequently became an assistant professor there in 1992 and in 1995 was named an associate professor. His early research focused on the pathogenesis and molecular mechanisms of human hookworm infection, and became interested in the possibility of developing a vaccine to protect against hookworm. Together with Maj Gen (ret) Philip K. Russell MD, Hotez founded the Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative (HHVI) in 1999,and in 2000 he was named Professor and Chair of the Department of Microbiology, and Tropical Medicine at the George Washington University, where he would serve until 2011 (renamed in 2005 as the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine).

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
Following the World Health Organization’s Millenium Development Goals in 2000, Hotez, along with Alan Fenwick and David Molyneux, led a global effort to rebrand what WHO in 2000 termed “other diseases” (Goal 6: to combat HIV, AIDS, malaria, “and other diseases”) as the neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs, and to promote therapeutic/preventive chemotherapy through a combination of drugs called the rapid-impact package.

Hotez has advocated increased efforts to control NTDs since 2005 through publications and speaking engagements, helping to gain increased awareness resulting in a decrease of prevalence and disease burden in many areas. During this time Hotez also led the Sabin Vaccine Institute in Washington DC, and also led efforts to establish PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the first online open access medical journal focused exclusively on neglected tropical diseases.

National School of Tropical Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development
In 2011 Hotez left Washington DC for Houston, where he was named founding dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, as well as principal investigator of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development (CVD). In addition to continued work on vaccines against hookworm and schistosomiasis, the CVD has expanded its portfolio to develop vaccines against a variety of other NTDs, including Chagas disease and leishmaniasis, as well as coronavirus infections. Currently two vaccines are in clinical trials for hookworm infection and schistosomiasis, respectively.

US science envoy
Hotez has also highlighted how vaccines can be used to promote international relationships in a process of what he terms “vaccine diplomacy.” In December 2014 Hotez was named U.S. Science Envoy by the White House and State Department. In this role he served two years focusing on vaccine science diplomacy and joint vaccine development with countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Public Figure on Ebola, Zika and other emerging diseases; blue marble health, combating vaccine hesitancy
In 2016, Prof. Hotez emerged as a major national thought leader on the Zika epidemic in the Western Hemisphere and globally, as well as the Ebola cases in Dallas, Texas a year earlier. He served on two Texas Governor’s task forces in order to address these diseases. He has also led US efforts around neglected diseases among impoverished populations in the southern US, estimating that 12 million Americans currently live with NTDs such as Chagas disease and toxocariasis.

In addition, as both a vaccine scientist and autism father he has led national efforts to defend vaccines as an ardent champion of vaccines going up against a growing national antivaccine movement.

Awards and memberships
Hotez has been awarded: •	2017 - The Distinguished Achievement Award from B'Nai B'rith International for a lifetime of accomplishments in science and public health. •	2011 - The Abraham Horwitz Award from the Pan American Health and Education Foundation and Pan American Health Organization for excellence in leadership in Inter-American public health guidelines •	2003 - The Bailey K. Ashford Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene for distinguished work in tropical medicine.

Publications
Hotez has served as editor or co-editor for several important textbooks including Feigin & Cherry’s Pediatric Tropical Diseases and Manson’s Tropical Diseases. He has also published two single author books titled Forgotten People, Forgotten Diseases, published by ASM Press. and Blue Marble Health: An Innovative Plan to Fight Diseases of the Poor Amid Wealth, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. He is the author of more than 400 scientific papers indexed on the PubMed National of Library of Science Database.

Personal life
Hotez lives in Houston, Texas. He married his wife Ann in 1987. They have two sons and two daughters. Hotez has written and talked about the family’s struggles with their daughter Rachel’s autism.

❌ I'm sorry but no one is going to even consider this giant wall of text please suggest proposed changes one by one, sentence by sentence. Theroadislong (talk) 20:49, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

suggested citation for 2.2 where it says citation needed
suggested citation for 2.2 where it says citation needed:

can the templates be deleted now that the article has been cleaned up quite a bit?
Also should I delete my too-long edit request now so the talk page is easier to read? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nwolf1470 (talk • contribs) 15:46, 18 November 2017 (UTC) Nwolf1470 (talk) 22:15, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

In the case of the templates, it would be best to make contact with the editor who activated them, and ask them if they might visit the article to determine whether the templates ought to be removed.  Spintendo  ᔦᔭ   13:08, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Request edit on 19 March 2018
please delete "with an emphasis on providing impoverished populations access to essential and existing medicines for neglected tropical diseases.[citation needed]" in the NTD Policy and Advocacy section. This refers to the Global Network for NTDs which no longer exists. His emphasis is now on development and advocacy. Thanks. (I can't do this because I have COI) Source: at the bottom of this page where it says "which concluded operations in 2016." Nwolf1470 (talk) 16:08, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

Spintendo you wrote "done" but I still see it. In the box at the top, under where it says "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"? Nwolf1470 (talk) 20:41, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Reply 21-MAR-2018
✅       Spintendo       16:16, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

I believe everything is cited now; there are no more "citation needed" messages. Could someone remove the template that says "This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. (May 2015)"? I can't because COI. (Spintendo if you see this you suggested I go to the editor who originally posted that template but I can't tell who that is-Animo?)Nwolf1470 (talk) 17:05, 22 March 2018 (UTC)

Request edit on 1 April 2021
Could someone please update the total publications from over 400 to over 600 and also had his new book--I cant because of COI, thanks

https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/preventing-next-pandemic Nwolf1470 (talk) 17:02, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
 * What I think should be changed:
 * Why it should be changed:
 * References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=hotez+pj&sort=date&size=100

Nwolf1470 (talk) 17:02, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

✅ Ferkjl (talk) 19:19, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 June 2023
Change 'misinformation' to 'what he regards as misinformation'. Dr Paul Booth (talk) 16:27, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: See WP:FRINGE. Tollens (talk) 17:11, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * CNN says it's misinformation, so it is misinformation. 79.166.4.32 (talk) 20:02, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

Controversy section needed
Hotez has been extremely political rather than substantive in his appearances on television. He has also refused to do a live debate with RFK Jr, on the very popular Joe Rogan podcast which is strange for someone that calls himself an expert. The level of pushback from him and mainstream media outlets appears extreme and unprecedented. Many individuals have offered to pay him to do this debate and the pot is up to $1 million.

(Please note that I am only making a suggestion to open the topic up for discussion. I would appreciate if people do not attack my post based on semantics and debate the content of my post instead). Raj208 (talk) 00:57, 26 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Controversy sections are deprecated. Talkpages are not fora for editors to echo talk show host talking points, which have made him a target for harassment and which are duly noted in the article.  Acroterion   (talk)   01:04, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Much of the controversy appears to be of his own doing. Early in 2020 he’s discussing a typical prolonged timeframe for vaccine development, then he’s changing the story within a year to suggest that the fairly rapid introduction of a Covid vaccine followed a typical process raises the question of a lack of integrity or perhaps a self-interest bias. A section on controversy is clearly warranted. 75.250.183.31 (talk) 02:28, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * How is that anything other than bias? Clearly you're making a sacred cow out of the man.
 * Unwillingness to publicly debate science is absolutely worthy of inclusion. 46.7.28.113 (talk) 12:36, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * No, we're applying the biographies of living persons policy and the Wikipedia manual of style. The encyclopedia does not exist to satisfy the audiences of talk show hosts, or as a means of attacking people you don't like by proxy.  Acroterion   (talk)   12:44, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree with @Acroterion that it’s preferable to just put this under “Career”; maybe a new subheading “public relations,” “public appearances” or the like.
 * I do agree that Hotez has more than brought this on himself
 * and @Acroterion should refrain from throwing shade. JustinReilly (talk) 07:25, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Your admonition might carry more weight if it was not accompanied by victim-blaming and normalizing harassment. Talkpages aren't fora for that sort of thing.  Acroterion   (talk)   16:21, 11 July 2023 (UTC)