Daniel Feikin

Daniel Feikin is an American epidemiologist. He specializes in the epidemiology of infectious diseases in developing countries. He currently serves as Director of Epidemiology at the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC), an organization dedicated to increasing global access to vaccines, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.^[1] He earlier worked at the National Centers for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.^[2] While working for the CDC he lived for a time in Kisumu, Kenya, from which he and his family had to be evacuated in 2008 due to local violence.^[3]

Education

Feikin earned his M.D. degree at Harvard Medical School. He also earned a Master of Science in Public Health from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and a bachelors degree from Yale University.

References

1. ^ IVAC | International Vaccine Access Center | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2. ^ Luby, Stephen, et al., Effect of handwashing on child health: a randomised controlled trial, in Lancet, Vol. 366, #9481, July 2005, pages 225-233
3. ^ Feikin, Daniel, Out of Kisumu, New York Times Magazine, February 24, 2008

External links

• International Vaccine Access Center