Steven Black

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.