Lewis Hackett

Lewis Wendell Hackett (14 December 1884 - Washington, 28 April 1962) was an American physician who worked in Italy, Albania and South America to combat malaria.

In 1925, Hackett and Missiroli, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, started the work which led to the creation of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità.

Hackett and Frederick W. Knipe led work in Albania to control Malaria where the British engineer, Betty Lindsay, was employed until 1939.

[1] In 1940, with the outbreak of World War II, Hackett left Italy to go to South America where he remained until 1949.

In 1953 he was awarded the Walter Reed Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.