| Home > Events > Disease, Disaster, and Democracy, 2006 > Conference Speakers > Roger Bernier Roger Bernier, PhD, MPH Summary of presentation | Transcript | Panel agenda Professional Biography
Dr. Bernier is currently Senior Advisor for Scientific Strategy and Innovation in the National Immunization Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Bernier has worked in public health for more than 30 years at the local, national, and international levels, beginning in 1966 with a CDC assignment to the New York City Department of Health and subsequently with assignments in Niger in francophone West Africa and in Atlanta. He rejoined CDC in 1978 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer and was assigned to the Division of Immunization, where he has assumed positions of increasing responsibility since that time. Dr. Bernier is the author or co-author of some 80 scientific articles or publications on vaccines and vaccine preventable disease topics. He has served on several important committees or advisory groups as both a member and chairman and has received several awards for both scientific and public health contributions during his career. Recently, Dr. Bernier completed a special assignment to explore how the immunization community could increase public participation in decision making about vaccines. This project resulted in a proposal to create the Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative (VPACE), an innovative new model for integrating the input of citizens and scientists in examining critical policy topics in immunization. The model has been successfully pilot tested by seeking public engagement on a tough decision facing Americans: who to vaccinate first in the event of an influenza pandemic when vaccine supplies are limited. Since 1980, Dr. Bernier has been the editor and publisher of The Epidemiology Monitor, a monthly, subscription-based newsletter for epidemiologists around the world. Dr. Bernier obtained his MPH from Yale University in 1974 and his PhD in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University in 1978. | 
