Neal A Halsey

Neal A Halsey

Professor Global Disease Epidemiology and Control Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health USA

Biography
Prof. Neal A. Halsey, MD is a pediatrician, with subspecialty training in infectious diseases, international health and epidemiology. Currently, Dr. Halsey is a Professor of International Health and Director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland. He also has a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and serves as Co-Director of the Center for Disease Studies and Control in Guatemala. 
Research Interest
My primary research and teaching effort is directed toward the prevention of infectious diseases with the safest vaccines possible. I have conducted or participated in epidemiological studies of vaccine-preventable diseases and phase I, II, and III vaccine trials of hepatitis B, hepatitis A, inactivated polio virus, pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type B, tetanus, Lyme disease, rotavirus, Argentina Hemorrhagic Fever, and influenzae vaccine viruses.