Dr Bruce G. Gellin

Dr Bruce Gellin is President of Global Immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute where he oversees Sabin’s mission to make vaccines more accessible, enable innovation and expand immunization globally. Before joining Sabin, he served at the US Department of Health and Human Services as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health and Director of the National Vaccine Program Office.

He has previously held positions at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine with appointments in the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Center for Global Health and Security and he has been a regular consultant to the World Health Organization.

Dr Gellin completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University and later was a preventive medicine resident at Cornell and at the CDC’s Arctic Investigations Program in Anchorage, Alaska and completed a fellowship in infectious diseases at Cornell/New York Hospital.  He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cornell University Medical College, and Columbia University School of Public Health.  He was a Luce Scholar in the Philippines and a Warren Weaver Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation focused on global health and vaccines.

Among other achievements, he is a recipient of AMA’s Nathan Davis Award, the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s citation for a lifetime of outstanding achievement, and the HHS Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service.  Dr. Gellin achieved board certification in internal medicine and infectious diseases, is an active member of numerous professional organizations, is a peer reviewer for over a dozen medical journals and served as a medical advisor to Encyclopedia Britannica.