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The National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC)

NVAC Vaccine Safety Working Group Roster

Andrew Pavia, MD*
George & Esther Gross Presidential Professor
Department of Pediatrics
U of Utah School of Medicine
Discipline: Pediatric and Adult Infectious Diseases
Group Representation: Academia

Trish Parnell*
Founder & Executive Director
Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases
Discipline: Parent of a child with an infectious disease
Group Representation: Public Representative

Mark Feinberg, MD, PhD*
Vice President for Policy, Public Health, & Medical Affairs
Merck Vaccine Division
Merck & Co., Inc.
Discipline: Immunology
Group Representation: Industry

Guthrie S. Birkhead, MD, MPH*
Deputy Commissioner, Office of Public Health,
New York State Department of Health
Discipline: Epidemiology
Group Representation: State Health Department

Cornelia Dekker, MD*
Professor of Pediatrics & Medical Director
Stanford-LPCH Vaccine Program
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Stanford University School of Medicine
Discipline: Pediatrics
Group Representation: Academia

James O. Mason, MD, DrPH*
Discipline: Public Health
Group Representation: Former CDC Director and ASH

Lance Gordon, PhD*
Vaccine Research & Development Consultant
Discipline: Immunology
Group Representation: Industry

Marie McCormick, MD, ScD*
Sumner and Esther Felberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Discipline: Maternal and Child Health
Group Representation: Academia

Lynn R. Goldman, MD, MPH
Professor
Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Applied Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Discipline: Toxicology/Environmental Health
Group Representation: Academia

Steven Goodman, MD, PhD
Professor
Co-director, Epidemiology Doctoral Program
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Discipline: Biostatistics/Epidemiology
Group Representation: Academia

Gerald Medoff, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases
Washington University School of Medicine
Discipline: Immunology
Group Representation: Academia

Christopher Carlson, PhD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Discipline: Genomics
Group Representation: Academia

Bennett Shaywitz, MD
Department of Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine
Discipline: Neurology
Group Representation: Academia

Sean Hennessy, PharmD, PhD
Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Discipline: Pharmacoepidemiology
Group Representation: Academia

Tawny Buck
Discipline: Parent of a child injured by a vaccine
Group Representation: Public Representative

Lawrence Gostin, JD, LL.D (Hon)
Associate Dean, Professor of Global Health
Georgetown University Law Center
Discipline: Ethics/Law
Group Representation: Academia

Paul-Henri Lambert, MD
Center of Vaccinology
Centre Médical Universitaire
Discipline: Global aspects of vaccine safety
Group Representation: Chair, WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety

Elizabeth Miller, BSc, MB, BS
Head, Immunisation Department
Health Protection Agency
Centre for Infections
Discipline: Vaccine Safety in the UK
Group Representation: Health Protection Agency/EU

*NVAC Member

HHS and Other Federal Ex-Officio

Dan Salmon, National Vaccine Program Office
Larry Pickering, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Executive Secretary
John Iskander, Immunization Safety Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Karen Midthun, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
Robert Ball, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
Geoff Evans, National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, Health Resources and Services Administration
Barbara Mulach, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Jessica Bernstein, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Florence Houn, Food and Drug Administration
Carmen Collazo, Food and Drug Administration
Alice Kau, National Institutes of Health
Peter Scheidt, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Renata Engler, Department of Defense

Last revised: July 3, 2008

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