Agenda. Immunization Safety Committee Organizational First Meeting
Welcome and Introductions
Marie McCormick, MD, ScD
Chair, Immunization Safety Review Committee
Presentation of the Charge to the Committee
Martin G. Myers, MD
Director, National Vaccine Program Office
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Walter A. Orenstein, MD
Director, National Immunization Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Carole A. Heilman, PhD
Director, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease
National Institutes of Health
Perspectives on Vaccine Safety
The Honorable Henry Waxman
Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Government Reform
United States House of Representatives
The Honorable Dave Weldon
United States House of Representatives
Elizabeth Clay
Professional Staff Member, Committee on Government Reform
Louis Cooper, MD
Vice-President, American Academy of Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University
Barbara Loe Fisher
President and Co-Founder
National Vaccine Information Center
Current Vaccine Safety Data Sources
Robert T. Chen, MD, MA
Chief, Vaccine Safety and Development Activity
National Immunization Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Causality Assessments in IOM Vaccine Safety Studies
Richard B. Johnston, Jr., MD
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado
Methodological Considerations in Evaluating the Evidence
David Tollerud, MD, MPH
Professor, Public Health, Medicine, and Community and Preventive Medicine (EOH)
Director, Center for Environmental and Occupational Health
School of Public Health
MCP Hahnemann University
Decision-making under uncertainty: The Case of Iodine-131
Robert S. Lawrence, M.D.
Edyth Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine and Professor of Health Policy
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Risk Assessment and Management Under Uncertainty: Lessons From Swine Flu and HIV in Blood Products
Michael A. Stoto, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
School of Public Health and Health Services
The George Washington University
Decision Analysis Applications to Immunization Policy
Richard Rheingans, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Risk Perception and Risk Communication Overview
Baruch Fischhoff, Ph.D.
Professor of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Research in Public Perceptions of Vaccine Safety
Beth Hibbs, RN, MPH
Vaccine Safety and Development Activity
National Immunization Program
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Framework for Considering Issues and Recommendations
Amy Fine, MPH, BSN
Health Policy/Program Consultant
Washington, DC
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