Robert S. Desowitz (January 2, 1926 – March 24, 2008) was a researcher of tropical medicine, parasites, and malaria, and an author.
Desowitz was born in New York, where he attended Niagara Falls High School.
He earned a double doctorate in parasitology and medical biology from the University of London in 1951.
[2] From 1951 to 1960, he worked for West African Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research in Vom, Nigeria.
He then worked as Chief of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Laboratory's Department of Parasitology in Bangkok from 1965 to 1968.