Description: (American Physician, Public Health Educator and Epidemiologist)
Robert Palmer Beasley was an American physician and epidemiologist recognized for his pioneering research on hepatitis B. His work in Taiwan identified HBV as a leading cause of liver cancer and demonstrated that mother-to-infant transmission can be prevented through vaccination. Beasley also played a key role in developing HBV immunization guidelines for the World Health Organization. As the Dean of UTHealth School of Public Health, he founded the Center for Infectious Diseases and worked on global initiatives, such as studying the SARS outbreak in China and Taiwan.