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Center & Institute Affiliations
Daniel Salmon, PhD ’03, MPH, is a vaccinologist who conducts epidemiological and behavioral studies to assess the safety of vaccines and improve vaccine decision-making.
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Research Interests
International Health, vaccine; immunization; vaccine safety; mandatory immunization
Experiences & Accomplishments
Dr. Salmon’s primary research and practice interest is optimizing the prevention of childhood infectious diseases through the use of vaccines. He is broadly trained in vaccinology, with an emphasis in epidemiology, behavioral epidemiology, and health policy. Dr. Salmon’s focus has been on post-licensure vaccine safety, determining the individual and community risks of vaccine refusal, understanding factors that impact vaccine acceptance, evaluating and improving state laws providing exemptions to school immunization requirements, developing systems and science in vaccine safety, and developing and evaluating provider, practice and patient interventions to improve vaccine informed decision-making. Dr. Salmon has considerable experience developing surveillance systems, using surveillance data for epidemiological studies, and measuring immunization coverage through a variety of approaches. Dr. Salmon has worked with state, federal and global public health authorities to strengthen immunization programs and pandemic planning.
Honors & Awards
Haddon Fellow, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health (1999-2001)
Achievement Award – Dedication to Students, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2005)
Development of the Federal Immunization Safety Task Force, Assistant Secretary for Health (2008)
Federal Monitoring of H1N1 Vaccine Safety, Assistant Secretary for Health (2010)
Patient Education Working Group Co-Chair, Assistant Secretary for Health (2012)
Outstanding recent graduate (within past 10 years), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2013)
Delta Omega Society (2014)
Select Publications
Dr. Salmon’s primary research and practice interest is optimizing the prevention of childhood infectious diseases through the use of vaccines. He is broadly trained in vaccinology, with an emphasis in epidemiology, behavioral epidemiology, and health policy. Dr. Salmon’s focus has been on determining the individual and community risks of vaccine refusal, understanding factors that impact vaccine acceptance, evaluating and improving state laws providing exemptions to school immunization requirements, developing systems and science in vaccine safety, and developing and evaluating interventions at the provider, practice and patient levels to improve vaccine informed decision-making. Dr. Salmon has considerable experience developing surveillance systems, using surveillance data for epidemiological studies, and measuring immunization coverage through a variety of approaches. Dr. Salmon has worked with state, federal and global public health agencies to strengthen immunization programs and pandemic planning.
Salmon DA, Dudley MZ*, Glanz JM, Omer SB. Vaccine hesitancy: Causes, consequences, and a call to action. Co-Published. Vaccine & Am J Prev Med. 2015 Nov 23; Suppl 4:D66-71.
Salmon DA, Proschan M, Forshee R, Gargiullo P, Bleser W*, Burwen DR, Cunningham F, Garman P, Greene SK, Lee GM, Vellozzi C, Yih WK, Gellin B, Lurie N, and the H1N1 GBS Meta-Analysis Working Group. A Meta-Analysis of the Association between Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Inactivated Vaccines in the United States. The Lancet. 2013 Apr 27; 2819876): 1461-8.
Salmon DA, Yih WK, Lee GM, Rosofsky R, Brown J, Vannice K*, Tokars J, Roddy J, Brand W, Ball R, Gellin B, Lurie N, Platt R, Lieu TA, and the PRISM Program H1N1 Project Collaborators. Success of program linking data sources to monitor H1N1 vaccine safety points to potential for even broader safety surveillance. Health Aff (Millwood). 2012 Nov; 31(11):2518-27.
Salmon DA, Teret SP, MacIntyre CR, Salisbury D, Halsey NA. Compulsory Vaccination and Conscientious or Philosophical Exemptions: Past, Present and Future. The Lancet. 2006 Feb 4; 367(9508):436-42.
Salmon DA, Haber M, Gangarosa EJ, Phillips L, Smith N, Chen RT. Health consequences of religious and philosophical exemptions from immunization laws: individual and societal risks of measles. JAMA. 1999 July 7; 282(1): 47-53.