Bruce Gellin, M.D. M.P.H., is a Professor of Medicine (Adjunct) at Georgetown University School of Medicine and an affiliate at Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Science and Security.
Dr. Gellin’s career has focused on a range of aspects of infectious diseases and their prevention through vaccination; vaccine science, research and development, vaccine access and equity, vaccine acceptance and hesitancy, pandemic preparedness and response, and the threat of infectious disease accelerated by climate change.
Dr. Gellin recently served as Senior Vice President and Chief of Global Public Health Strategy at The Rockefeller Foundation where he helped to establish Rockefeller’s strategic vision for global public health and pandemic prevention including their commitment to finding scalable solutions to mitigate the impact of climate change on the health of vulnerable populations.
Prior to his role at Rockefeller, Dr. Gellin was President of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute and, for over a decade, served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Director of the National Vaccine Program Office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS). In that role he was the principal advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health on the Nation’s vaccine and immunization programs and policies. Dr. Gellin also represented HHS as a technical and policy advisor to the World Health Organization with a focus on influenza and vaccine hesitancy and as a contributor to the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration and the influenza Global Action Vaccine Action Plan.
Dr. Gellin earned a Master’s Degree in public health (epidemiology) from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, is a graduate of Weill Cornell Medical College, was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Luce Scholar in the Philippines and a Warren Weaver Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation. He previously help positions at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Gellin achieved board certification in internal medicine and infectious diseases and serves as a peer reviewer for over a dozen medical journals.