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Kristen Feemster, MD MPH MSHP

Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, United States

Kristen A. Feemster, MD MPH MSHP FAAP FPIDS is a board-certified pediatric infectious diseases physician and health services researcher with a strong interest in public health. She received a B.S. in Environmental Biology at Yale University and an M.D. / M.P.H. at Columbia University before moving to Philadelphia for residency and fellowship training at CHOP and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She joined the faculty at Penn in 2010 in the Division of Infectious Diseases. After several years as an academic physician, she transitioned to a full-time public health role as Medical Director of the Immunization Program and Acute Communicable Diseases at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health until June 2020. She is now a Director of Global Medical and Scientific Affairs in the Vaccines / Infectious Diseases Division at Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Inc.

Dr. Feemster’s research interests have included vaccine policy, vaccine hesitancy and the epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases both domestically and internationally. She has maintained an academic appointment as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Penn, serves as the Director of Research for the Vaccine Education Center and is affiliate faculty with PolicyLab and the Global Health Program at CHOP. In the community, she is a fellow at the College of Physicians and serves on the boards of the UNITY Consortium and GE2P2 (Governance, Evidence, Ethics, Policy and Practice.) She is also a past technical advisor for the American Academy of Pediatrics Global Immunization Advocacy Initiative working with pediatric societies to build vaccine advocacy capacity in low and middle income countries.

Merck & Co., Inc (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Employee

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