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The Institute of Medicine was chartered in 1970 by the National Academyof Sciences to enlist distinguished members of the appropriate professionsin the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public. In this the Institute acts under the Academy's 1863 congressionalcharter responsibility to be an adviser to the federal governmentand, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care,research, and education. Dr. Kenneth I. Shine is president of theInstitute of Medicine.
The project was supported by funds coordinated through the NationalInstitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutesof Health (contract no. NO1-AI-15130).
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COMMITTEE TO STUDY NEW RESEARCH ON VACCINES
RICHARD B. JOHNSTON, JR. (Chair), Medical Director,
The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, White Plains, New York;
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics,
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
E. RUSSELL ALEXANDER, Professor of Epidemiology,
School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington; Chief of Epidemiology, Seattle-King County Health Department, Seattle, Washington
RICHARD T. JOHNSON, * Professor and Director,
Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
MICHAEL S. KRAMER, Professor,
Departments of Pediatrics and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
BENNETT A. SHAYWITZ, Professor of Pediatrics, Neurology, and Child Study Center,
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
PAUL D. STOLLEY, * Professor and Chairman,
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Project Staff
Kathleen R. Stratton, Project Director
Cynthia J. Howe, Program Officer
Dorothy R. Majewski, Project Assistant
Michael A. Stoto, Director,
Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Michael K. Hayes, Contract Editor
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Member, Institute of Medicine |