Janet Englund, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital, studies the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of respiratory viruses. She has studied new vaccines and prevention measures against respiratory diseases in children, pregnant persons, and immunocompromised patients. She has worked collaboratively on large surveillance studies assessing community spread of respiratory viruses in households and vaccine effectiveness. Her research group has studied prevention of disease in infants using passive monoclonal antibody and maternal immunization. She is part of the New Vaccine Surveillance Network of the US CDC which assesses the effectiveness of vaccines and monoclonal antibodies in children.