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
Babu TM, Jackson LA, El Sahly HM. Next-generation SARS-CoV-2 vaccine formulations and alternative routes of administration. J Infect Dis. 2024 Oct 16:jiae504. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae504. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Markowitz LE, Hopkins RH Jr, Broder KR, Lee GM, Edwards KM, Daley MF, Jackson LA, Nelson JC, Riley LE, McNally VV, Schechter R, Whitley-Williams PN, Cunningham F, Clark M, Ryan M, Farizo KM, Wong HL, Kelman J, Beresnev T, Marshall V, Shay DK, Gee J, Woo J, McNeil MM, Su JR, Shimabukuro TT, Wharton M, Keipp Talbot H. COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Technical (VaST) Work Group: Enhancing vaccine safety monitoring during the pandemic. Vaccine. 2024 Feb 9:S0264-410X(23)01505-0. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.12.059. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed
Irving SA, Groom HC, Belongia EA, Crane B, Daley MF, Goddard K, Jackson LA, Kauffman TL, Kenigsberg TA, Kuckler L, Naleway AL, Patel SA, Tseng HF, Williams JTB, Weintraub ES. Influenza vaccination coverage among persons ages six months and older in the Vaccine Safety Datalink in the 2017-18 through 2022-23 influenza seasons. Vaccine. 2023 Nov 22;41(48):7138-7146. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.10.023. Epub 2023 Oct 20. PubMed
Cash-Goldwasser S, Reingold AL, Luby SP, Jackson LA, Frieden TR. Masks during pandemics caused by respiratory pathogens - evidence and implications for action. JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(10):e2339443. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.39443. PubMed
Huang Y, Hejazi NS, Blette B, Carpp LN, Benkeser D, Montefiori DC, McDermott AB, Fong Y, Janes HE, Deng W, Zhou H, Houchens CR, Martins K, Jayashankar L, Flach B, Lin BC, O'Connell S, McDanal C, Eaton A, Sarzotti-Kelsoe M, Lu Y, Yu C, Kenny A, Carone M, Huynh C, Miller J, El Sahly HM, Baden LR, Jackson LA, Campbell TB, Clark J, Andrasik MP, Kublin JG, Corey L, Neuzil KM, Pajon R, Follmann D, Donis RO, Koup RA, Gilbert PB, On Behalf Of The Immune Assays, Moderna Inc, Coronavirus Vaccine Prevention Network CoVPN/Coronavirus Efficacy Cove, United States Government Usg/CoVPN Biostatistics Teams. Stochastic interventional vaccine efficacy and principal surrogate analyses of antibody markers as correlates of protection against symptomatic COVID-19 in the COVE mRNA-1273 trial. Viruses. 2023 Sep 29;15(10):2029. doi: 10.3390/v15102029. PubMed
Branche AR, Rouphael NG, Diemert DJ, Falsey AR, Losada C, Baden LR, Frey SE, Whitaker JA, Little SJ, Anderson EJ, Walter EB, Novak RM, Rupp R, Jackson LA, Babu TM, Kottkamp AC, Luetkemeyer AF, Immergluck LC, Presti RM, Bäcker M, Winokur PL, Mahgoub +++. Comparison of bivalent and monovalent SARS-CoV-2 variant vaccines: the phase 2 randomized open-label COVAIL trial. Nat Med. 2023;29(9):2334-2346. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02503-4. Epub 2023 Aug 28. PubMed
Irving SA, Crane B, Weintraub E, Kauffman TL, Brooks N, Patel SA, Razzaghi H, Belongia EA, Daley MF, Getahun D, Glenn SC, Hambidge SJ, Jackson LA, Kharbanda E, Klein NP, Zerbo O, Naleway AL. Influenza vaccination among pregnant people before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Obstet Gynecol. 2023 Sep 1;142(3):636-639. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000005285. Epub 2023 Aug 3. PubMed
Kenigsberg TA, Goddard K, Hanson KE, Lewis N, Klein N, Irving SA, Naleway AL, Crane B, Kauffman TL, Xu S, Daley MF, Hurley LP, Kaiser R, Jackson LA, Jazwa A, Weintraub ES. Simultaneous administration of mRNA COVID-19 bivalent booster and influenza vaccines. Vaccine. 2023 Sep 7;41(39):5678-5682. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.08.023. Epub 2023 Aug 19. PubMed
Rouphael NG, Branche AR, Diemert DJ, Falsey AR, Losada C, Baden LR, Frey SE, Whitaker JA, Little SJ, Kamidani S, Walter EB, Novak RM, Rupp R, Jackson LA, Babu TM, Kottkamp AC, Luetkemeyer AF, Immergluck LC, Presti RM, Bäcker M, Winokur PL, Mahgoub SM, Goepfert PA, Fusco DN, Atmar RL, Posavad CM, Netzl A, Smith DJ, Telu K, Mu J, McQuarrie LJ, Makowski M, Makhene MK, Crandon S, Montefiori DC, Roberts PC, Beigel JH. Immunogenicity of a two dose regimen of Moderna mRNA Beta/Omicron BA.1 bivalent variant vaccine boost in a randomized clinical trial. J Infect Dis. 2023 Aug 10;jiad323. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiad323. Online ahead of print. PubMed
Lyke KE, Atmar RL, Dominguez Islas C, Posavad CM, Deming ME, Branche AR, Johnston C, El Sahly HM, Edupuganti S, Mulligan MJ, Jackson LA, Rupp RE, Rostad CA, Coler RN, Bäcker M, Kottkamp AC, Babu TM, Dobrzynski D, Martin JM, Brady RC, Frenck RW Jr, Rajakumar K, Kotloff K, Rouphael N, Szydlo D, PaulChoudhury R, Archer JI, Crandon S, Ingersoll B, Eaton A, Brown ER, McElrath MJ, Neuzil KM, Stephens DS, Post DJ, Lin BC, Serebryannyy L, Beigel JH, Montefiori DC, Roberts PC; DMID 21-0012 Study Group. Immunogenicity of NVX-CoV2373 heterologous boost against SARS-CoV-2 variants. NPJ Vaccines. 2023 Jul 11;8(1):98. doi: 10.1038/s41541-023-00693-z. PubMed
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