Raising the bar of vaccine safety research

The Science Board 
sets research priorities, oversees the scientific progress, advises the Foundation Board, Management Team and participants, and ensures scientific rigour. Each member primarily advises on one of the following areas:

  • Capacity Building
  • Clinical Studies
  • Communication
  • Data Linkage
  • Standards

Our Science Board Members

Capacity Building

Hector Izurieta
Chief of Analytical Epidemiology
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, United States of America

Egeruan Babatunde Imoukhuede
Director, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs
European Vaccine Initiative
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany

Clinical Studies

Najwa Khuri-Bulos, Co-Chair
Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Jordan University Hospital
Amman, Jordan

Paul T. Heath
Reader in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Honorary Consultant
Division of Child Health
St George's of the University of London
London, England

Communication

Heidi Larson
Senio Lecturer
London School of Hygenie and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
London, England

Data Linkage

Steve Black
Adjunct Professor, Center for Global Child Health
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

 

Miriam Sturkenboom
Professor of Pharmaco-epidemiology
Erasmus University
Medical Center Rotterdam
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Standards

Jim Buttery
Director SAEFVIC
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Royal Children's Hospital
Melbourne, Australia

Michael Blum, Co-Chair
Consultant in Vaccinology
Collegeville, PA
United States of America

Former Members

Katrin S Kohl
Deputy Director, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine
Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, United States of America

Odile Leroy
Executive Director
European Malaria Vaccine Initiative
Copenhagen, Denmark

Brigitte Keller-Stanislawski
Head, Pharmacovigilance
Paul Ehrlich Institut
Langen, Germany

Miles Braun
Director, Division of Epidemiology
Center for Biologics and Evaluation
Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, United States of America

Robert Chen (Founding Member)
Chief, Vaccine Safety and Development Branch
National Immunization Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, United States of America

Harald Heijbel (Founding Member)
Coordinator, Immunization Registry Project
Swedish Institute of Infectious Disease Control
Stockholm, Sweden

Ulrich Heininger (Founding Member)
Chair, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccines
University Children's Hospital
Basel, Switzerland

Tom Jefferson (Founding Member)
Vaccine Field
Cochrane Collaboration
Alessandria, Italy

Elisabeth Loupi (Founding Member)
Senior Director, Pharmacovigilance
Sanofi Pasteur SA
Lyon, France

Mike Marcy
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Center for Vaccine Research
Harbor-University of California Los Angeles Medical Center
University of Southern California and Kaiser Foundation Hospital
Torrance, United States of America