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Throughout November, December And January, All Donations Made To Parasites Without Borders Will Be Matched By PWB And Donated To MicrobeTV
Throughout November, December and January, all donations made to Parasites Without Borders will be matched by PWB and donated to MicrobeTV. PWB pledges a minimum donation of $10,000 and will match all of your donations for a total gift to MicrobeTV of up to $20,000. These donations will help support an independent podcast network for people who are interested in the life sciences.
MicrobeTV was founded in 2015 by Vincent Racaniello, a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University. Vincent began his first podcast, This Week in Virology (TWiV), in September 2008, together with Dickson Despommier, father of the Vertical Farm. Although Vincent viewed the creation of a science podcast as an experiment, he was surprised when people began to listen. Since then, he has created a dozen or so podcasts focused on different aspects of life sciences. In recognition of his contribution to microbiology education, Vincent has been awarded the Peter Wildly Prize Lecture by the Microbiology Society, American Society for Microbiology Award for Education, Richard C. Ernst Lecture, and American Society for Virology Wolfgang and Patricia Joklik Distinguished Service Award.
It is MicrobeTV’s goal to keep the podcasts such as This Week in Virology (TWiV), This Week in Parasitism (TWiP), Infectious Disease Puscast, IMMUNE, This Week in Evolution (TWiEVO), This Week in Microbiology (TWiM), This Week in Neuroscience (TWiN), Matters Microbial and Beyond The Noise free, so that more people can learn about all of the amazing aspects of life sciences.
Authoritative Learning Materials
For Educators
Books
Our books, are required reading for physicians planning to practice abroad to gain a better understanding of the common infections they will likely be seeing and treating.
Certification Exams
A team of physicians who are certified in caring for parasitic infections will serve to increase the safety and overall success of your organization's missions abroad. Learn more about our certifications.
Video Courses
Parasitic Diseases Lectures is a 45 part video series that explores the biology and pathogenesis of protozoan and helminth parasites. The Medical Handbook for Limited Resource Settings is also a comprehensive e-learning video course that can be accessed here on our website.
Our Books
Parasites Without Borders offers several books for FREE and for purchase for educators.
The Problem
Common Parasitic Infections
The world is getting smaller. Global shrinkage is real and is driven by information overload from the internet, CNN, The BBC, NPR, and Al jazeera, to name a few. All the while, the human population continues to grow, exacerbating unresolved issues of rapid urbanization that is being caused by the predictable adverse effects of rapid climate change on the environment. Yet, for some of us, especially if we are among the few millions of lucky ones, our lives will continue essentially unchanged, enriched by complex, interesting cultures. We will work hard for our income, and most importantly we will not worry about where our next meal comes from. Becoming physically and psychologically compromised by some exotic disease entity – malaria or schistosomiasis – seems as remote a possibility as waking up surrounded by a host of other life-threatening issues.
Our Team
For the purpose of eliminating human suffering due to parasitic infections it is essential that there is more and better education for all those in a position to apply medical knowledge directly to populations most in need of solutions to alleviate the burden of parasitic diseases. The three of us have had a life-time of experience in teaching parasitic diseases to students of medicine, both within the U.S.A. and abroad.

Daniel Griffin, MD, PhD

Dickson D. Despommier, PhD

Charles A. Knirsch, MD, MPH

Peter J. Hotez MD PhD FAAP FASTMH
Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine
Director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics
