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Barbara Loe Fisher is co-founder of the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), founded in 1982 by parents of children who died or became ill following DPT vaccinations and is "dedicated to preventing vaccine injuries and deaths through public education and defending the informed consent ethic." As president of NVIC, she has led a national movement to provide informed consent protections in mandatory vaccination laws and "institute vaccine safety reforms and informed consent protections in the public health system." She is editor of the weekly NVIC E-News, and a blogger, and many of her articles on vaccines and vaccine policies appear on NVIC's website.

In 1985, she co-authored, with Harris Coulter, (DPT: A Shot in the Dark). She has written extensively on the science, policy and ethics of mandatory vaccination. While working with Congress to institute safety and research provisions in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, she led demonstrations at the Centers for Disease Control and White House that year to highlight the need for scientific research into the identification of genetic and other high risk factors for vaccine induced brain damage and immune system dysfunction.

Fisher coordinated five conferences on vaccination for the National Vaccine Information Center, including the 1989 International Scientific Workshop on Pertussis and Pertussis Vaccines and four International Public Conferences on Vaccination, in 1997, 2000, 2002 and 2009. She has served as a consumer representative for more than fifteen years on federal vaccine advisory committees and the Institute of Medicine, and has appeared in opposition to mandatory vaccination policies in many radio, television, newspaper and magazine reports.

She is the mother of three children. She maintains that her oldest son, Chris, suffered a convulsion, collapse/shock and brain inflammation within hours of his fourth DPT shot, at age two and a half in 1980, and was left with multiple learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder.

Before co-founding the National Vaccine Information Center, she received a bachelor of arts degree in English from the University of Maryland and was an editor for New York Life Insurance Company in New York City; director of community relations for Muhlenberg Hospital in New Jersey; and media relations coordinator for the Alexandria Tourist Council in Alexandria, Virginia.

In December 2009 Fisher has pursued a libel case aganist Paul Offit, an expert in the science of vaccines, and Amy Wallace, as well as Wallace's employer Condé Nast Publications, for both comments Offit made during an interview with Wallace for WIRED magazine and the general tone of the article. However, the case was dismissed in March 2010.

Publications

• DPT: A Shot in the Dark (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985; Warner 1986; Avery 1991; Putnam)
• The Consumer's Guide to Childhood Vaccines(1997)
• "Shots in the Dark", Next City Magazine (Summer 1999)
• "Smallpox and Forced Vaccination: What Every American Needs to Know," The Vaccine Reaction(December 2001)
• "In the Wake of Vaccines", Mothering Magazine(September/October, 2004)
• "Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic (2008)

Appointments

• National Vaccine Advisory Committee (1988-1991), US Department of Health and Human Services; Chair, Subcommittee on Vaccine Adverse Events
• Vaccine Safety Forum, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1995-1998)
• Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (1999-2003), US Department of Health and Human Services
• Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative: A US Government Experiment in Public Engagement (2002-2005)
• Blue Ribbon Panel on Vaccine Safety, Centers for Disease Control (June 3-4, 2004)
• Consumers United for Evidence Based Healthcare, The Cochrane Collaboration - U.S. (August 2006 - present)
• National Vaccine Advisory Committee, US Department of Health & Human Services (2008) - "Vaccine Safety Research Priorities: Engaging the Public"
• Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines, US Department of Health & Human Services (2008) - "The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Failed Experiment in Tort Reform?"
• Stony Brook University, NY Legislative Roundtable (2008) - "Philosophical Exemption to Vaccination"
• National Black Caucus & National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators Conference (2009) "Vaccine Laws, Child Health & Informed Consent"
• Keynote, Fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination (2009) - "Show Us the Science & Give Us the Choice"

Selected Presentations

• National Vaccine Advisory Committee (1995) - "Monitoring Vaccine Adverse Events"
• Dynamic Essentials Seminars (1995) - "The Politics of Vaccination: Walking the Wire to Freedom"
• Vaccine Safety Forum, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1995) - "Vaccine Adverse Event Detection and Response"
• Vaccine Safety Forum, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1996) - "Vaccine Safety Research Priorities"
• NIH Conference on New Pertussis Vaccines" (1996) "DPT and DTaP Vaccines"
• Vaccine Safety Forum, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1996) - "Risk Communication and Vaccination."
• Developmental Delay Registry Conference (1996) - "Vaccine Risks and Public Policy"
• National Vaccine Advisory Committee, US Department of Health and Human Services (1997) - "The Moral Right to Conscientious Belief Objection to Vaccination"
• Illinois Board of Health (1998) - Oral testimony on Hepatitis B Vaccine
• New Jersey Public Health Council (1998)- Oral testimony on Hepatitis B Vaccine
• Public Health Committee, Texas Legislature (1999)- Oral testimony on Informed Consent to Vaccination
• Public Health Committee, Illinois Legislature (1999)- Oral testimony on Informed Consent to Vaccination
• National Press Club, Institute for Health Freedom (1999)- "Medical Privacy and Mandatory Vaccinations"
• US House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources (1999)- Oral testimony on Hepatitis B Vaccine Risks and the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986
• Colorado Legislature (2000)- Oral testimony on Hepatitis B Vaccine Risks
• Immunization Safety Review Committee, Institute of Medicine (2001) - "Vaccination and Chronic Disease"
• California Senate Committee on Health (2002) - Oral testimony on proposed vaccine mandates
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2002) - "The Human Right to Informed Consent"
• Defeat Autism Now Conference, Boston (2002) - "Vaccines and Autism"
• US House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform (2003) - Oral testimony on SV40 Contamination of Polio Vaccines
• Public Health Committee, Minnesota Legislature (2003) - Oral testimony on Proposed Hepatitis B and Pneumoccocal Vaccine Mandates
• Institute of Medicine, Committee on the Review of the National Immunization Program's Research Procedures and Data Sharing Program (2004) -"Open Government Vaccine Safety Databases for Public Oversight"
• Power of Truth Rally, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. (2005)
• Life University (2006) - "The Philosophy of Vaccination and the Philosophy of Chiropractic"
• Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers (2007) - "Vaccination and the Law"
• Wellness Forum, Columbus, Ohio (2007) - "The Science and Politics of Vaccination"

References

1. http://www.nvic.org/about.aspx
2. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/FishervOffit1.pdf
3. http://www.amy-wallace.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Memorandum-Opinion.pdf

See also

• List of vaccine topics

External links

• VaccineAwakening.blogspot.com - 'Vaccine Awakening' (blog), Barbara Loe Fisher
• KidSource.com - 'Parents Ask for Collaborative Investigation Into Role Of Vaccines in Autism Epidemic'
• MedicalNewsToday.com - 'National Vaccine Information Center Calls "Anti-Terror" Bill "Unconstitutional"' (February 7, 2005)
• Mothering.com - 'In the Wake of Vaccines', Mothering, (September/October, 2004)
• NVIC.org - National Vaccine Information Center
• - Centers for Disease Control Vaccination Information Page

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