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D-Index
61
Citations
13158
World Ranking
3239
National Ranking
1514

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal, Sabin Vaccine Institute
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2013 - Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
  • 2011 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Paul A. Offit is affiliated with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Infectious Diseases, Health, and Epidemiology. Their work also intersects with Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's main topics of study include Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Viral Gastroenteritis Research and Epidemiology. Other areas of focus are COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction, Animal Virus Infections Studies, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, and Influenza Virus Research Studies.

Paul A. Offit's frequently published venues include Vaccine, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, and Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology.

Recent papers feature a range of contributions to vaccine and COVID-19-related research:

  • Vaccine Safety: Myths and Misinformation, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines and the Growing Threat of Viral Variants, 2021, JAMA
  • Perspectives on the receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine: A survey of employees in two large hospitals in Philadelphia, 2021, Vaccine
  • Racial/Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Health Care Workers in 2 Large Academic Hospitals, 2021, JAMA Network Open
  • Bivalent Covid-19 Vaccines - A Cautionary Tale, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine

Prominent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include Barbara J. Kuter, Kristen A. Feemster, Safa Browne, Florence Momplaisir, and Angela K. Shen.

Paul A. Offit has also contributed to book publications, including Vaccines and Your Family published by Columbia University Press in 2024.

Throughout their career, the scientist has received various recognitions:

  • Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal, Sabin Vaccine Institute, 2018
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2015
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015
  • Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 2013
  • Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), 2011
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Best Publications

  • Safety and Efficacy of a Pentavalent Human–Bovine (WC3) Reassortant Rotavirus Vaccine

    Timo Vesikari;David O Matson;Penelope Dennehy;Pierre Van Damme

  • Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Multiple Vaccines Overwhelm or Weaken the Infant’s Immune System?

    Paul A. Offit;Jessica Quarles;Michael A. Gerber;Charles J. Hackett

  • Identification of the two rotavirus genes determining neutralization specificities

    P A Offit;G Blavat

  • Vaccines and Autism: A Tale of Shifting Hypotheses

    Jeffrey S. Gerber;Paul A. Offit

  • Rotavirus isolate WI61 representing a presumptive new human serotype.

    H F Clark;Y Hoshino;L M Bell;J Groff

  • Molecular basis of rotavirus virulence: role of gene segment 4.

    P A Offit;G Blavat;H B Greenberg;H F Clark

  • Passive protection against rotavirus-induced diarrhea by monoclonal antibodies to surface proteins vp3 and vp7.

    Paul A. Offit;Robert D. Shaw;Harry B. Greenberg

  • Vaccine Safety: Myths and Misinformation.

    Sarah Geoghegan;Kevin P. O’Callaghan;Paul A. Offit

  • Protection against rotavirus-induced gastroenteritis in a murine model by passively acquired gastrointestinal but not circulating antibodies.

    P A Offit;H F Clark

  • The development of multivalent bovine rotavirus (strain WC3) reassortant vaccine for infants.

    H F. Clark;P. A. Offit;R. W. Ellis;J. J. Eiden

  • Reassortant rotaviruses containing structural proteins vp3 and vp7 from different parents induce antibodies protective against each parental serotype.

    P A Offit;H F Clark;G Blavat;H B Greenberg

  • SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines and the Growing Threat of Viral Variants.

    John P. Moore;Paul A. Offit

  • Antigenic mapping of the surface proteins of rhesus rotavirus.

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  • Addressing parents' concerns: do vaccines contain harmful preservatives, adjuvants, additives, or residuals?

    Paul A. Offit;Rita K. Jew

  • Safety, efficacy, and immunogenicity of a live, quadrivalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine in healthy infants

    H.Fred Clark;David I Bernstein;Penelope H Dennehy;Paul Offit

  • Effects of the potency and composition of the multivalent human-bovine (WC3) reassortant rotavirus vaccine on efficacy, safety and immunogenicity in healthy infants.

    Timo Vesikari;H Fred Clark;Paul A Offit;Michael J Dallas

  • A murine model for oral infection with a primate rotavirus (simian SA11).

    P A Offit;H F Clark;M J Kornstein;S A Plotkin

  • Rotavirus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes appear at the intestinal mucosal surface after rotavirus infection.

    P A Offit;K I Dudzik

  • Communicating science to the public: MMR vaccine and autism

    Paul A Offit;Susan E Coffin

  • Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

    Paul Offit

Frequent Co-Authors

H. Fred Clark
H. Fred Clark Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Stanley A. Plotkin
Stanley A. Plotkin University of Pennsylvania
Harry B. Greenberg
Harry B. Greenberg Stanford University
Richard L. Ward
Richard L. Ward Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
David O. Matson
David O. Matson Eastern Virginia Medical School
John J. Treanor
John J. Treanor University of Rochester Medical Center
Steven Black
Steven Black Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Henry R. Shinefield
Henry R. Shinefield University of California, San Francisco
Frank DeStefano
Frank DeStefano Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Michael E. Pichichero
Michael E. Pichichero Rochester Regional Health

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