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| Dr.John D. Clemens, M.D. |
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 John
D. Clemens, M.D., Director General of the International
Vaccine Institute, is an international expert on vaccine
evaluation in developing countries. He is a graduate of
Stanford University and Yale University School of Medicine.
For five years, Dr. Clemens was a Research Scientist at
the International Center for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,
Bangladesh. Before joining the International Vaccine Institute,
he held senior positions at the United States National
Institutes of Health, where he was Chief of the Epidemiology
Branch and Chief of the Section on Pediatric Infectious
Diseases and Vaccinology of the National Institute of
Child Health and Human Development. He has been a long-term
advisor to WHO.
He has a continuing appointment as an adjunct professor
at Johns Hopkins University and at Seoul National University.
Dr. Clemens has successfully undertaken numerous vaccine
research projects in developing countries. His past research
in Asia has included projects in Bangladesh, China, India,
Indonesia, Mozambique, Pakistan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
He has published over 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals
and is an expert both on vaccines against enteric infections
and on methodological approaches for vaccine evaluations.
He is also on the editorial boards of several scientific
journals, including the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Dr. Clemens has pioneered methods for the conceptualization,
design, implementation, and evaluation of effectiveness
trials of new vaccines. |
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