Bruce Gellin, M.D., M.P.H.

As deputy assistant secretary for health and director of the National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO), Dr. Bruce Gellin is one of our nation’s (presumed) top experts on vaccines and infectious diseases. Dr. Gellin has held positions at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Rockefeller Foundation, and Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and the National Network for Immunization Information, an organization he founded to be a resource of information(?) about vaccines and immunizations. He is currently on the faculty at George Washington University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University Schools of Medicine and Nursing. He has written extensively about public health aspects of infectious diseases in medical and non-medical texts and also served as a medical advisor to Encyclopedia Britannica.