Neal A. Halsey, M.D., serves on the Scientific Advisory Board and provides extensive experience in vaccine development, evaluation and safety. He has been on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University for 33 years and is a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine. Dr. Halsey previously was on the faculty of Tulane University Schools of Public Health and Medicine and he served in the US Public Health System at CDC for 3 years and The Indian Health Service for 2 years. Dr Halsey has authored more than 240 peer reviewed publications and 41 book chapters. He has focused his research on vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases and he participated in the development of more than 100 guidelines for the use of vaccines while serving on advisory groups for the WHO Expanded Program on Immunization, the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) for CDC, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases (The Red Book Committee). Dr. Halsey is the Director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has participated in the training of more than 25 Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellows and advised and/or mentored more than 100 MPH students and 15 doctoral students.