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Neal A. Halsey (born 1945) is an Americanpediatrician, with sub-specialty training ininfectious diseases, international health andepidemiology. Halsey is a professor emeritus of international health and director emeritus of theInstitute for Vaccine Safety at theJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, inBaltimore, Maryland. He had a joint appointment in the Department of Pediatrics at theJohns Hopkins School of Medicine and serves as co-director of the Center for Disease Studies and Control in Guatemala.
In 1999 he spearheaded the precautionary movement to removethimerosal from pediatric vaccines.[1]
Halsey received his MD in 1971 from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison. He completed his internship in pediatrics at The Children's Hospital in Denver, Colorado in 1972; his residency in pediatrics at the University of Colorado Medical Center in 1975. Halsey was an EIS officer 1975–77; a preventive medicine resident 1976–78 and a fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado 1978–80.
Halsey started his teaching career at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Departments of Pediatrics (School of Medicine) and Tropical Medicine (School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine). Halsey was also Medical Epidemiologist and Chief of Surveillance Activities at CDC and General Medical Officer and Medical Officer in Charge at the Indian Health Service at Fort Yates, North Dakota.
Halsey has published more than 200 scientific articles inpeer reviewed journals regarding vaccines andvaccine safety and authored or co-authored nearly 40 book chapters. He has contributed information to theInstitute of Medicine(IOM) and the Public Health Service (PHS) for reviews of individual vaccine safety issues, provided expert testimony and reviews ofvaccine injury legal claims involving theNational Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), vaccine makers, and theFood and Drug Administration (FDA). He served with theCenters for Disease Control (CDC) in the Immunization Division, and served on the Research and Development Group of theWorld Health Organization (WHO) Expanded Program on Immunization. He has been a member or advisory member of the CDCAdvisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and was a member of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of theAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 1989–99; COID Chair 1995–99.
Halsey's research is primarily directed toward the prevention of infectious diseases with the safest vaccines possible. He has conducted or participated in epidemiological studies of vaccine-preventable diseases and phase I, II, and III vaccine trials ofhepatitis A,hepatitis B, inactivatedpolio virus,pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type B,tetanus,Lyme disease,rotavirus, Argentina Hemorrhagic Fever, human papillomavirus (HPV) andinfluenzae vaccine viruses.Measles control has been an interest of Halsey's, and he supports ongoing measles andpolio eradication efforts.
Halsey has worked internationally in many developing countries including Haiti, Peru, Guatemala, Kenya, Thiopia and Pakistan. A lot of his works in Haiti focused on maternal and child health issues. He collaborated withReginald Boulos on many of these papers.
Halsey is the director emeritus of the Institute for Vaccine Safety, which was established in 1997 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to provide information to parents, physicians and journalists about vaccines and vaccine safety issues.
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