Our Team
Science Board
The Brighton Collaboration’s Science Board sets research priorities, oversees scientific progress, ensures scientific rigour and advises the Secretariat. Our Honorary Science Board Members are currently:
Sonali Kochhar, MD
Medical Director, Global Healthcare Consulting
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Global Health, University of Washington, USA
Wan-Ting Huang, MD
Adjunct Faculty of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Children’s Hospital
Clare Cutland, PhD, MBBCH
Scientific Coordinator, African Leadership in Vaccinology Expertise (ALIVE)
University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Nicholas Wood, MBBS, PhD, MPH, FRACP
Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
University of Sydney
Paul Henri Lambert, MD
Senior Advisor, Centre of Vaccinology, University of Geneva
Azucena Bardaji, MD, MSc, PhD
Senior Researcher, Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM), Mozambique
Associate Research Professor, ISGlobal, Spain
Associate Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain
Jim Buttery, MD
Professor of Child Health Informatics, University of Melbourne
Chief Clinical Research Information Officer, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
Head, Health Informatics Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Victoria, Australia
Alejandro Cravioto, MD, PhD
WHO Chair of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) for immunization
Professor, Faculty of Medicine Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
Matthew Dudley, PhD, MSPH
Co-Director of Epidemiology, Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
Jane Gidudu, MD, MPH
Vaccine Safety Officer, Global Immunization Safety Team, Immunization Systems Branch, Global Immunization Division, Center for Global Health
Hector Izurieta, MD, PhD
Associate Director, Novel Clinical Investigations, OVRR/CBER/FDA, USA
Najwa Khuri-Bulos, MD
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases, University of Jordan
Adjunct Professor, Pediatric Infectious Disease Vanderbilt University, USA
Denny Kim, MD, MPH
Chie Safety Officer, Novavax, USA
Nicola Klein, MD
Director, Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, USA
Karina Top, MD, MSc, FRCPC
Consultant, Pediatrics Infectious Diseases, IWK Health Centre, Canada
Professor, Departments of Community Health & Epidemiology and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Canada
Robert P. Wise, MD, MPH
Independent Consultant, Wise Medicine LLC, USA
Former Science Board Members
Michael Gold, Hector Izurieta, Egeruan Babatunde Imoukhuede, Michael Blum, Miles Braun, Robert Chen (Founding Member), Paul T. Heath, Harald Heijbel (Founding Member), Ulrich Heininger (Founding Member), Tom Jefferson (Founding Member), Brigitte Keller-Stanislawski, Najwa Khuri- Bulos, Katrin S Kohl, Odile Leroy, Elisabeth Loupi (Founding Member), Mike Marcy, Patrick Zuber, Miriam Sturkenboom, Steve Black, Heidi Larson, Jim Buttery, James Oleske, Barbara J Law, Kathryn M. Edwards, Daniel Salmon, Helen Petousis-Harris, Delese Mimi Darko
Brighton Collaboration Secretariat
Robert Chen, MD, MA
Scientific Director, Brighton Collaboration
Matthew Dudley, PhD, MSPH
Coordinator, Brighton Collaboration
Epidemiologist, Institute for Vaccine Safety, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Chantal Vera, MBA
Program Manager, Brighton Collaboration
Emalee Martin, MPH
Consultant, Brighton Collaboration
Emily Smith, MPH
Consultant, Brighton Collaboration
Founders of the Brighton Collaboration
Robert Chen, Ulrich Heininger, Harald Heijbel, Tom Jefferson and Elisabeth Loupi.
The Brighton Collaboration Foundation was established by Jan Bonhoeffer and Ulrich Heininger.