John Modlin

Background

About John Modlin

I am now retired from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where I served as Deputy Director for Polio Research and Policy from 2013 to 2019. I now serve on data monitoring and safety boards for several vaccine manufacturers and participate in selected consulting activities related to vaccine development and child health. In retirement, I hold the title of Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine (Emeritus) at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and split my time between Vermont and northern Michigan. Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, I was Chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Senior Advising Dean at Geisel. I graduated from Duke University School of Medicine, completed pediatric residency and infectious diseases fellowship training at Boston Children’s Hospital, and served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), before taking sequential faculty positions at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth. My career interests include perinatal viral infections, enterovirus infections, poliovirus immunization, vaccine development and immunization policy. Among other positions, I have served as Chair of the FDA Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee, Chair of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and Chair of the FDA Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee.