Paul Offit

Paul Offit is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases. He is also the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and is dedicated to challenging the danger of infectious diseases. His research into historical epidemics has led him to investigate rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety.

Regarding rotavirus-specific immune responses and vaccine safety, Paul Offit has published more than 130 papers in medical and scientific journals. He is the author of five books including; Vaccines: What You Should Know, Breaking the Antibiotic Habit, The Cutter Incident: How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led to Today’s Growing Vaccine Crisis, Vaccinated: One Man’s Quest to Defeat the World’s Deadliest Diseases, and his most recent book, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure.

Paul Offit is a recipient of many awards including the J. Edmund Bradley Prize for Excellence in Pediatrics, a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health, and the Young Investigator Award in Vaccine Development from the Infectious Disease Society of America. For his dedication, he has also received the Jonas Salk Medal from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and the Gold Medal from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.