List of people associated with vaccination
This is a list of people associated with vaccination. These individuals have contributed to research and development of vaccinations as well as participated in activism for and against vaccination. Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material (a vaccine) to stimulate the immune system of an individual to develop adaptive immunity to a disease. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate the effects of infection by many pathogens.
Developers of vaccines
- Thomas Francis, Jr., MD
- Maurice Hilleman
- Edward Jenner, MD
- Hilary Koprowski, MD
- Paul Offit, MD
- Louis Pasteur
- Stanley Plotkin, MD
- Albert Sabin, MD
- Jonas Salk, MD
- Marshall Lightowlers
Anti-vaccinationists
- Alan Cantwell
- Glen Dettman
- Barbara Loe Fisher
- Archie Kalokerinos
- Mark Geier
- Jenny McCarthy
- Andrew Wakefield
- Beddow Bayly
- Gerhard Buchwald
- Robert S. Mendelsohn
- Hans Rüesch
- Viera Scheibner
- Kevin Trudeau
- Joseph Mercola