Payne) was an American tropical physician and director for the International Health Board of the Rockefeller Foundation for Mexico[1] and Trinidad in the 1920s.
[2] He also worked as a physician for the state health board in Virginia in 1923.
[3] He investigated hookworm disease between 1921[4][5][6] and 1934,[7] and was known for studying the links between hookworm, tropical sprue and anemia in Trinidad,[2] as well as Puerto Rico at the School of Tropical Medicine, where he worked with William Bosworth Castle and Cornelius P.
[8][9][10] In 1929 he published a study on effective footwear to reduce worm infestation.
[13] He also studied diet and nutrition in Mexico from 1944 to 1948.