Lisa A. Jackson, MD, MPH
“Kaiser Permanente Washington gives us nearly unlimited potential to address vaccine effectiveness and safety questions of national and international importance.”
Lisa A. Jackson, MD, MPH
Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
Physician, Washington Permanente Medical Group, Internal Medicine
Biography
Lisa A. Jackson, MD, MPH, is an internist and infectious disease epidemiologist who has conducted clinical and epidemiologic studies of vaccine safety and efficacy since 1991.
Dr. Jackson is the principal investigator (PI) of KPWHRI’s Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit — one of 10 network sites that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsors. In this role, she leads the phase 1 clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine co-developed by Moderna and NIH. Launched in March 2020, this trial was the first in the world to begin testing a COVID-19 vaccine. She is also leading the phase 3 clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccines developed by Moderna and NIH and by Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, part of Johnson & Johnson, at KPWHRI.
Additionally, Dr. Jackson serves as KPWHRI’s principal investigator in the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSDP). Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), VSDP conducts ongoing research on the safety of licensed vaccines in routine use.
Dr. Jackson has written more than 200 peer-reviewed publications and 14 book chapters. She is a past member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee and the National Vaccine Program Office’s National Vaccine Advisory Committee.
After receiving her medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine, in Charlottesville, Dr. Jackson earned her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at the University of Washington (UW) School of Public Health. She completed her internal medicine residency training at the UW School of Medicine and served as an epidemic intelligence officer and preventive medicine resident at the CDC.
Research interests and experience
Vaccines & Infectious Diseases
Vaccine safety; COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness; influenza vaccine effectiveness in the elderly; methodologic issues in vaccine effectiveness evaluations; pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine effectiveness; pneumococcal conjugate vaccine immunogenicity in the elderly; epidemiology of E. coli bacteremia; epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia
Recent publications
Harris K, Baggs J, Davis RL, Black S, Jackson LA, Mullooly JP, Chapman LE. Influenza vaccination coverage among adult solid organ transplant recipients at three health maintenance organizations, 1995-2005. Vaccine. 2009;27(17):2335-41. Epub 2009 Feb 20. PubMed
Jackson LA, Baxter R, Naleway AL, Belongia EA, Baggs J. Patterns of pneumococcal vaccination and revaccination in elderly and non-elderly adults: a Vaccine Safety Datalink study. BMC Infect Dis. 2009;9(1):37. PubMed
Nelson JC, Jackson ML, Weiss NS, Jackson LA. New strategies are needed to improve the accuracy of influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates among seniors. J Clin Epidemiol. 2009;62(7):687-94. Epub 2009 Jan 4. PubMed
Dublin S, Jackson ML, Nelson JC, Weiss NS, Larson EB, Jackson LA. Statin use and risk of community acquired pneumonia in older people: population based case-control study. BMJ. 2009;338:b2137. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b2137. PubMed
Jackson LA, Yu O, Belongia EA, Hambidge SJ, Nelson J, Baxter R, Naleway A, Gay C, Nordin J, Baggs J, Iskander J. Frequency of medically attended adverse events following tetanus and diphtheria toxoid vaccine in adolescents and young adults: a Vaccine Safety Datalink study. BMC Infect Dis. 2009;9:165. PubMed
Jackson LA, Jacobson RM, Reisinger KS, Anemona A, Danzig LE, Dull PM. A randomized trial to determine the tolerability and immunogenicity of a quadrivalent meningococcal glycoconjugate vaccine in healthy adolescents. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2009;28(2):86-91. PubMed
Jackson LA. Using surveillance to evaluate influenza vaccine effectiveness. J Infect Dis. 2009 Jan 15;199(2):155-8. PubMed
Jackson LA, Janoff EN. Pneumococcal vaccination of seniors: new paradigms for protection. Clin Infect Dis. 2008;47(10):1328-38. PubMed
Jackson LA, Reynolds MA, Harpaz R. Hospitalizations to treat herpes zoster in older adults: causes and validated rates. Clin Infect Dis. 2008;47(6):754-9. PubMed
Jackson LA. Benefits of examining influenza vaccine associations outside of influenza season. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2008;178(5):439-40. PubMed
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