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
Lima NS, McCormick L, Li S, Wake CG, Subramanian R, Spangler A, Pinto Y, Catalano W, Henry AR, Laboune F, Teng IT, Lyke KE, Atmar RL, Deming ME, Jackson LA, Branche AR, Rostad CA, Martin JM, Johnston CM, Rupp RE, Kottkamp AC, Brady RC, Backer M, Edupuganti S, 21-0012 Study Group, Posavad CM, Roberts PC, Kwong PD, Andrews S, Schramm CA, Douek DC, 21-0012 Study Group collaborators The vaccine platform used for COVID-19 primary immunization shapes the quality of the human B cell response to a vaccine boost 2026 Feb 25;18(838):eaeb9837. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aeb9837. Epub 2026-02-25. PubMed
Heng F, Magaret CA, Rouphael NG, Branche AR, Fong Y, Carpp LN, Yu C, Chen S, Zhang B, Diemert DJ, Falsey AR, Graciaa DS, 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, Mu J, Makowski M, Makhene MK, Nayak SU, Simon V, van Bakel H, Roberts PC, Gilbert PB, Coronavirus Variant Immunologic Landscape Trial (COVAIL) Study Team The neutralizing antibody titer correlate of COVID-19 risk in the COVID-19 variant immunologic landscape (COVAIL) trial was not modified by SARS-CoV-2 amino acid sequence distances 2026 Feb 15;76:128348. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.128348. Epub 2026-02-15. PubMed
Jatt LP, Gillespie KM, Van P, Hoffman SL, Jackson LA, Murphy SC, Heath JR, Kublin JG Manuscript title: Cytokines Associated With Moderate and Severe Adverse Events During a Sporozoite Malaria Vaccine Trial with Controlled Human Malaria Infection 2026 Jan 17;233(1):191-196 doi:10.1093/infdis/jiaf435. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf435. Epub 2025-08-14. PubMed
Duncombe CJ, Hergott DEB, Staubus W, Balke-Buijs M, Kublin JG, Duffy PE, Healy SA, Talley A, Jackson L, Sim BKL, Hoffman SL, Sauerwein RW, Roestenberg M, Murphy SC Sex-based differences in Plasmodium infection in the control groups of controlled human malaria infection trials in malaria-naive populations in the USA and the Netherlands: a pooled analysis 2026 Jan 13 doi: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2025.101265. Epub 2026-01-13. PubMed
Jackson LA, Coler RN, Deye GA, Carter D, Gray SA, Pecor T, Davis J, Larsen SE, Posavad CM, Cox C, Watanabe A, Lundeen JS, Gill R, Kalyanasundaram A, Siddiqui AA Safety and immunogenicity of the Sm-p80 GLA-SE schistosomiasis vaccine 2025 Nov 24;10(1):247. doi: 10.1038/s41541-025-01261-3. Epub 2025-11-24. PubMed
Fitz-Patrick D, McVinnie DS, Jackson LA, Crowther G, Geevarughese A, Cannon KD, Garcia LM, Pineiro Puebla Y, Yi Z, Cunliffe L, Maniar A, Zareba AM, Ianos CA, Gomme E, Koury K, Suphaphiphat Allen P, Anderson AS, Gurtman A, Lindert K, Pfizer C4781004 Trial Investigators Efficacy, Immunogenicity, and Safety of Modified mRNA Influenza Vaccine 2025 Nov 20;393(20):2001-2011. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2416779. PubMed
Donahue JG, Cocoros NM, Kieke BA, Hanson KE, Weintraub ES, Yih WK, Scotty E, McClure DL, Fireman B, Boyce TG, Maro JC, Bartlett J, Glanz JM, Haapala JL, Horberg M, Hurley L, Irving SA, Jackson LA, Kim S, Klein NP, McNeil MM, Myers TR, Qian L, Smith N, Sundaram ME, Tartof S, Wang L, Xu S, Belongia EA Near real-time surveillance and tree-based data mining to assess the safety of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines in older adults in the vaccine safety datalink 2025 Nov 20;67:127873 doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127873. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127873. Epub 2025-10-24. PubMed
Atmar RL, Lyke KE, Posavad CM, Deming ME, Brady RC, Dobrzynski D, Edupuganti S, Mulligan MJ, Rupp RE, Rostad CA, Jackson LA, Martin JM, Shriver MC, Rajakumar K, Coler RN, El Sahly HM, Kottkamp AC, Branche AR, Frenck RW, Johnston C, Babu TM, Bäcker M, Archer JI, Crandon S, Nakamura A, Nayak SU, Szydlo D, Dominguez Islas CP, Brown ER, O'Connell SE, Montefiori DC, Eaton A, Neuzil KM, Stephens DS, Beigel JH, Pasetti M, Roberts PC Mucosal and Systemic Antibody Responses After Boosting With a Bivalent Messenger RNA Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Vaccine 2025 Oct 15;232(4):971-981 doi:10.1093/infdis/jiaf176. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf176. Epub 2025-04-29. PubMed
Dobrzynski DM, Graciaa DS, Babu TM, Coler RN, Paulsen GC, Hoft DF, Frey SE, Edwards KM, Jackson LA, Chen WH From Yesterday to Tomorrow: How Vaccine Platforms Have Shaped the Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units 2025 Oct 10;81(Supplement_2):S125-S136. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaf379. PubMed
Irving SA, Groom HC, Belongia EA, Crane B, Daley MF, Jackson LA, Kenigsberg TA, Kuckler L, Tseng HF, Williams JTB, Zerbo O, Naleway AL Differences in influenza vaccination coverage by race and ethnicity across age groups in the Vaccine Safety Datalink, 2017-18 through 2022-23 influenza seasons 2025 Oct 3;64:127667 doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127667. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127667. Epub 2025-09-04. PubMed
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