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Grace Lee, MD 

Professor of Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases, Stanford School of Medicine 

Dr. Grace Lee is Chief Quality Officer and the Christopher G. Dawes Endowed Director of Quality at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, and Associate Dean for Maternal and Child Health (Quality and Safety) and Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine. She oversees the Center for Pediatric and Maternal Value that seeks to improve quality, safety, patient experience and health equity across the organization. Dr. Lee previously served as a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee (IOM) to Review Priorities in the National Vaccine Plan, the IOM Committee on the Ethical and Scientific Issues in Studying the Safety of Approved Drugs, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Vaccine Research and Development Recommendations for Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response, and AHRQ's Healthcare Safety and Quality Improvement Research Study Section. She also served as a Board Member for the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS), and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice. She was previously the Chair of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) that recommends vaccines for the U.S. population, and she is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. 

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Heidi J. Larson, PhD

Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 

Heidi J. Larson, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine(UK); Clinical Professor, Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle(USA); and Visiting Professor, University of Antwerp and KU Leuven, Belgium. Professor Larson is founding  Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project and her research focuses on managing risk and building trust from trials to delivery and building public cooperation, particularly in times of emergencies. She has a particular interest in trust in science and technology, and worked for Apple Computer and XEROX Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) as an anthropologist to inform the early stage design and introduction of novel technologies.

In 2021, Professor Larson launched the Global Listening Project to investigate ecosystems of trust around health and information technologies, leading a 70-country study of public experiences and trust during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professor Larson previously headed Strategy and Communications around new vaccine introduction for UNICEF’s Global Immunization Programme, chaired Gavi’s Advocacy Task Force, and served on the WHO SAGE Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy. Professor Larson is the author of STUCK: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why They Don’t Go Away  (Oxford University Press, 2020). In 2021 she was named by BBC as one of the 100 most influential women in the world and was awarded the 2021 Edinburgh Award for Science.

Paul Costello

Adjunct Lecturer, Primary Care and Population Health, Stanford School of Medicine 

Paul Costello, MSW, is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Medicine and a Global Health Faculty Fellow in the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health.  He served as the chief communications officer in the Stanford School of Medicine for seventeen years.