Thomas Wallace Scott is an American tropical infectious disease epidemiologist.
He left BGSU for his PhD in ecology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1981 and completed a National Institutes of Health post-doctoral fellowship in epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine in 1983.
As a result of his research, Scott was bestowed the honorary title of distinguished professor;[4] elected a Fellow of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene;[5] elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; elected a Fellow of the Entomological Society of America;[6] named the recipient of the C. W. Woodworth Award, the highest award given by the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America;[3] and awarded the Harry Hoogstraal Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
[7] Since 2019, Scott has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science Group.
[8] Scott is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and Entomological Society of America; was a National Research Council Associate; is a Past-President of the Society for Vector Ecology; and is a past-Chair of the Mosquito Modeling Group in the program on Research and Policy in Infectious Disease Dynamics.