Kathryn M. Edwards, MD, the Sarah H. Sell and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt, has conducted pivotal trials of vaccines licensed in the past several decades and has led the CDC-funded Center for Immunization Safety Assessment (CISA) site. She has served on many CDC, NIH, FDA, WHO, and IDSA committees.

Walter A. Orenstein, MD, DSc (Hon), is a Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, Global Health, and Pediatrics at Emory University. From 2008 through 2011, he was Deputy Director for Immunization Programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. From 1988-2004, he was the Director of the United States Immunization Program. He is a former Assistant Surgeon General of the USPHS.

David S. Stephens, MD, is the Stephen W. Schwarzmann Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Epidemiology at Emory University. He is Vice-President for Research of Emory's Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center and is Chair of the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine.