Dr. Steven Black is a pediatric infectious disease specialist who received
degrees in Biology and Chemistry from the University of California Santa
Barbara and an MD degree from the University of California San Diego. He
completed a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of
California San Francisco. He has spent more than 30 years conducting clinical
trials and safety studies of vaccines including being the principal investigator in
five pivotal licensure trials and six phase four post marketing trials. He has also
conducted numerous phase 1-2 clinical trials. He is co-Director of the 25 country
Global Vaccine Data network currently engaged in the safety evaluation of
COVID-19 and other vaccines. He is work package lead for DSMB activities for
the CEPI funded SPEAC project supporting the assessment of vaccine safety in
CEPI funded clinical trials. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at the
University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio USA and Honorary Professor
of Pediatrics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He is editor in chief
of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.