Barbara Loe Fisher is president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), a non-profit charity she co-founded with parents of DPT vaccine injured children in 1982. For some 38 years she’s led a national, grassroots movement and public information campaign to institute vaccine safety reforms and informed consent protections in the public health system. She has researched, analyzed and publicly articulated the major issues involving the science, policy, law, ethics and politics of vaccination to become one of the world’s leading non-medical, consumer advocacy experts on the subject. She is co-author of DPT: A Shot in the Dark and author of The Consumer’s Guide to Childhood Vaccines as well as Vaccines, Autism and Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic and Reforming Vaccine Policy and Law: A Guide.
