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
Jackson LA, Rupp R, Papadimitriou A, Wallace D, Raanan M, Moss KJ. A phase 1 study of safety and immunogenicity following intradermal administration of a tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate. Vaccine. 2018 May 19. pii: S0264-410X(18)30635-2. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.05.028. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Zerbo O, Modaressi S, Goddard K, Lewis E, Fireman BH, Daley MF, Irving SA, Jackson LA, Donahue JG, Qian L, Getahun D, DeStefano F, McNeil MM, Klein NP. Vaccination patterns in children after autism spectrum disorder diagnosis and in their younger siblings. JAMA Pediatr. 2018 Mar 26. pii: 2676070. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2018.0082. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Stewart RJ, Flannery B, Chung JR, Gaglani M, Reis M, Zimmerman RK, Nowalk MP, Jackson L, Jackson ML, Monto AS, Martin ET, Belongia EA, McLean HQ, Fry AM, Havers FP. Influenza Antiviral Prescribing for Outpatients With an Acute Respiratory Illness and at High Risk for Influenza-Associated Complications During 5 Influenza Seasons-United States, 2011-2016. Clin Infect Dis . 2018 Mar 19;66(7):1035-1041. doi: 10.1093/cid/cix922. PubMed
Russell K, Chung JR, Monto AS, Martin ET, Belongia EA, McLean HQ, Gaglani M, Murthy K, Zimmerman RK, Nowalk MP, Jackson ML, Jackson LA, Flannery B. Influenza vaccine effectiveness in older adults compared with younger adults over five seasons. Vaccine. 2018;36(10):1272-1278. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2018.01.045. PubMed
Sukumaran L, McCarthy NL, Kharbanda EO, Vazquez-Benitez G, Lipkind HS, Jackson L, Klein NP, Naleway AL, McClure DL, Hechter RC, Kawai AT, Glanz JM, Weintraub ES. Infant hospitalizations and mortality after maternal vaccination. Pediatrics. 2018 Feb 20. pii: e20173310. doi: 10.1542/peds.2017-3310. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Flannery B, Chung JR, Belongia EA, McLean HQ, Gaglani M, Murthy K, Zimmerman RK, Nowalk MP, Jackson ML, Jackson LA, Monto AS, Martin ET, Foust A, Sessions W, Berman L, Barnes JR, Spencer S, Fry AM. Interim estimates of 2017-18 seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness - United States, February 2018. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2018;67(6):180-185. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6706a2. PubMed
Flannery B, Smith C, Garten RJ, Levine MZ, Chung JR, Jackson ML, Jackson LA, Monto AS, Martin ET, Belongia EA, McLean HQ, Gaglani M, Murthy K, Zimmerman R, Nowalk MP, Griffin MR, Keipp Talbot H, Treanor JJ, Wentworth DE, Fry AM. Influence of birth cohort on effectiveness of 2015-2016 influenza vaccine against medically attended illness due to 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus in the United States. J Infect Dis. 2018 Jun 20;218(2):189-196. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jix634. PubMed
Widdice LE, Unger ER, Panicker G, Hoagland R, Callahan ST, Jackson LA, Berry AA, Kotloff K, Frey SE, Harrison CJ, Pahud BA, Edwards KM, Mulligan MJ, Sudman J, Bernstein DI. Antibody responses among adolescent females receiving two or three quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine doses at standard and prolonged intervals. Vaccine. 2018 Jan 3. pii: S0264-410X(17)31795-4. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.12.042. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Jackson LA, El Sahly HM, George S, Winokur P, Edwards K, Brady RC, Rouphael N, Keitel WA, Mulligan MJ, Burton RL, Nakamura A, Ferreria J, Nahm MH. Randomized clinical trial of a single versus a double dose of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in adults 55 through 74 years of age previously vaccinated with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. Vaccine. 2018 Jan 29;36(5):606-614. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.12.061. Epub 2017 Dec 24. PubMed
Storms AD, Chen J, Jackson LA, Nordin JD, Naleway AL, Glanz JM, Jacobsen SJ, Weintraub ES, Klein NP, Gargiullo PM, Fry AM. Rates and risk factors associated with hospitalization for pneumonia with ICU admission among adults. BMC Pulm Med. 2017;17(1):208. doi: 10.1186/s12890-017-0552-x. PubMed
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