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Vaccine epidemiology and field trials

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Alison Galvani

Alison P. Galvani is an American epidemiologist and mathematical modeler at Yale, founding director of its Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, known for work on vaccination policy and outbreak response.

Anders Hviid

Anders Peter Hviid is a Danish epidemiologist and professor at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, known for large register-based studies of MMR vaccination and autism and pregnancy safety of HPV vaccination.

Anna Wald

Anna Wald is an American infectious-diseases physician and epidemiologist at the University of Washington who directs its Virology Research Clinic and led trials of new genital herpes drugs.

Anne Schuchat

Anne Schuchat is an American internist and epidemiologist whose CDC career spanned 1988 to 2021; her group B strep guidelines are credited with saving 100,000 newborns.

Caroline Buckee

Caroline O'Flaherty Buckee is a Harvard epidemiology professor known for using mobile phone data to map malaria spread, including a 2012 study of 15 million Kenyan call records.

Claire-Anne Siegrist

Claire-Anne Siegrist, born 1958, is a Swiss pediatrician known for infant vaccine immunology and for leading WHO's phase 1 trials of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine.

Cynthia G. Whitney

Cynthia G. Whitney, known as Cyndy Whitney, is a physician and epidemiologist who spent 25 years at the CDC and now leads the CHAMPS child mortality surveillance network.

David A. Sack

David A. Sack, also known as David Sack, is an American infectious-disease epidemiologist and physician, a Johns Hopkins professor who led icddr,b in Bangladesh and advanced oral cholera vaccines.

David R. Boulware

David R. Boulware is an infectious disease physician and professor at the University of Minnesota, known for trials of COVID-19 outpatient treatments and cryptococcal meningitis therapy.

Eckard Wimmer

Eckard Wimmer is a virologist and Stony Brook University professor known for poliovirus research and for leading the first chemical synthesis of an infectious virus in 2002.

Eugene D. Shapiro

Eugene D. Shapiro is an American pediatric infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist at Yale School of Medicine since 1983, known for vaccine effectiveness studies and Lyme disease research.

Fernando P. Polack

Fernando P. Polack is an Argentine pediatric infectious disease researcher at Vanderbilt University known for RSV research and leading the Pfizer–BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine trial in Argentina.

Heikki Peltola

Heikki Peltola is a Finnish pediatric infectious-diseases researcher at the University of Helsinki, known for Hib vaccine trials in about 90,000 infants and Finland's two-dose MMR program.

Henry R. Shinefield

Henry R. Shinefield (born 1925) is an American pediatrician and vaccine researcher who was chief of pediatrics at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco and co-developed its Vaccine Study Center.

Horace M. Gezon

Horace M. Gezon was an American epidemiologist and professor at the University of Pittsburgh who traced newborn nursery infection outbreaks and ran controlled hexachlorophene bathing trials in infants.

J. Anthony G. Scott

J. Anthony G. Scott, full name John Anthony Gerard Scott, is a clinician and epidemiologist, Professor of Vaccine Epidemiology at LSHTM, known for pneumococcal disease research in Kilifi, Kenya.

Jerome O. Klein

Jerome O. Klein (1931–2021) was an American pediatric infectious diseases physician-researcher who spent his career at Boston City Hospital and Boston Medical Center, best known for research on otitis media.

Joakim Dillner

Joakim Dillner is a Swedish physician-scientist and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet who led the Swedescreen HPV screening trial and founded Sweden's National Cervical Screening Registry.

John D. Clemens

John D. Clemens is an American infectious disease epidemiologist whose Bangladesh field trials established oral cholera vaccines; he was founding Director General of the International Vaccine Institute and developed Shanchol.

John L. Sever

John L. Sever (J. L. Sever) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who led NIH's Infectious Diseases Branch and set Rotary on its polio eradication campaign in 1979.

John R. Paul

John Rodman Paul (1893–1971) was an American virologist and epidemiologist who spent his career at Yale, researched poliomyelitis for three decades, and founded the field of clinical epidemiology.

Kashmira Date

Kashmira A. Date is an American physician and epidemiologist who spent over a decade at the CDC leading cholera and typhoid vaccine work, winning a 2014 PECASE award.

Kathleen Neuzil

Kathleen Neuzil is a physician-scientist in vaccinology who led large typhoid and rotavirus vaccine trials and directed the University of Maryland's Center for Vaccine Development.

Keith P. Klugman

Keith P. Klugman is a South African-trained infectious-diseases epidemiologist and physician who directs the Pneumonia program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and led the first phase III pneumococcal vaccine trial in Africa.

Kristin L. Nichol

Kristin L. Nichol is an American physician-epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA whose studies quantified how influenza vaccination reduces hospitalizations and deaths in elderly people.

Laura A. Koutsky

Laura A. Koutsky is an American epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, known for HPV research and as principal investigator of the first HPV vaccine trials.

Lauri E. Markowitz

Lauri E. Markowitz is an American physician and epidemiologist who joined the CDC in 1983, studied measles outbreaks, and led HPV vaccine surveillance showing large infection declines.

Lindsey R. Baden

Lindsey R. Baden is an American infectious disease physician-scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and a deputy editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.

Lisa A. Jackson

Lisa A. Jackson, also known as Lisa Jackson, is an American vaccine epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente Washington who led the first COVID-19 vaccine trial in March 2020.

Lucy McNamara

Lucy Alexandra McNamara is an infectious-disease epidemiologist at the CDC's Meningitis and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Branch, a PECASE recipient who deployed to the 2014 Ebola response in Guinea and Liberia.