Jason L. Schwartz, PhD
Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Associate Professor in the History of Medicine, and Associate Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy StudiesCards
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Yale School of Public Health
60 College Street, PO Box 208034
New Haven, CT 06520-8034
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Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
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Yale School of Public Health
60 College Street, PO Box 208034
New Haven, CT 06520-8034
United States
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Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
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Yale School of Public Health
60 College Street, PO Box 208034
New Haven, CT 06520-8034
United States
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Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy); Associate Professor in the History of Medicine, and Associate Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health
Biography
Jason L. Schwartz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. His research examines vaccines and vaccination policy, decision-making in medical regulation and public health policy, and the structure and function of scientific expert advice to government. The overall focus of his work is on the ways in which evidence is interpreted, evaluated, and translated into regulation and policy in medicine and public health. He holds a secondary appointment in the Section of the History of Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and is also affiliated with Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies and Program in the History of Science and Medicine.
Schwartz's publications have appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), The American Journal of Public Health, BMJ, The Lancet, Health Affairs, and elsewhere. He is also an author of the chapter titled “Ethics” in Plotkin's Vaccines, the leading textbook of vaccine science and policy, and editor of Vaccination Ethics and Policy: An Introduction with Readings. Among his current research projects is a book, Solicited Advice: Expert Committees, Government Health Agencies, and Medicine in Modern America, that examines the emergence, evolution, and continuing influence of expert advisory committees in American medicine and public health from the 1960s to the present, particularly regarding pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and screening technologies. This project is supported by the National Institutes of Health. Other ongoing projects examine how policy-makers, regulators, payers, physicians, and patients evaluate and respond to the risks, benefits, and costs of medical interventions.
Schwartz regularly teaches courses and gives lectures on vaccination issues, health policy and the U.S. health care system, pharmaceuticals and the FDA, science advice to government, and related topics. His research, analysis, and perspectives have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, BBC, Time, and elsewhere. He has testified before the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, the National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. He is a member of The Lancet Commission on Vaccine Acceptance in the United States, the New England Comparative Effectiveness Public Advisory Council for the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), and the Board of Trustees of St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Schwartz was a member of Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont's COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group and chair of its Science Subcommittee. He also advised colleges and universities, K-12 schools, early childhood centers, churches, and other organizations regarding their COVID-19 policies and protocols, particularly with respect to vaccines.
Prior to arriving at Yale, Schwartz was the Harold T. Shapiro Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and earlier, an Associate Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He was also a staff member for President Barack Obama's Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, where he was a lead staff author of the Commission's 2010 report on synthetic biology and emerging technologies and a contributor to its 2011 investigation of U.S. Public Health Service-led STD research in Guatemala in the 1940s.
Schwartz is a graduate of Princeton University, where he received an A.B. in classics, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science and a master's degree (MBE) in bioethics.
For more information, please visit http://jschwartz.yale.edu.
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Health Policy & Management
Associate Professor on TermPrimaryHistory of Medicine
Associate Professor on TermSecondaryInstitution for Social and Policy Studies
Associate Professor on TermSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency (CRRIT)
- Health Policy & Management
- History of Medicine
- Institution for Social and Policy Studies
- J. Schwartz Lab
- Yale Institute for Global Health
- Yale School of Public Health
- Yale School of Public Health - NEW
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral
- Princeton University (2015)
- PhD
- University of Pennsylvania (2012)
- MBE
- University of Pennsylvania (2006)
- AB
- Princeton University (2003)
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Joseph Ross, MD, MHS
A. David Paltiel, MBA, PhD
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH
Daniel Boffa, MD
Frederick Lewis Altice, MD, MA
Jacob Wallace, PhD
Vaccination
Health Policy
Public Health
Publications
2023
Kindergarten Vaccination Status in California After Changes to Medical Exemption Policy
Delamater P, Buttenheim A, Salmon D, Schwartz J, Omer S. Kindergarten Vaccination Status in California After Changes to Medical Exemption Policy. JAMA 2023, 330: 1585-1587. PMID: 37782512, PMCID: PMC10546290, DOI: 10.1001/jama.2023.16995.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsExcess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Registered Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Wallace J, Goldsmith-Pinkham P, Schwartz J. Excess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Registered Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Internal Medicine 2023, 183: 916-923. PMID: 37486680, PMCID: PMC10366951, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.1154.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsExcess death rateDeath rateCOVID-19 pandemicLow vaccination ratesCOVID-19 vaccinationCross-sectional studyAge 25 yearsCOVID-19 vaccineHigher COVID-19 death ratesCOVID-19 death ratesCross-sectional comparisonMedian ageAdjusted analysisVaccination ratesExcess mortalityVaccination attitudesMAIN OUTCOMEWeekly deathsMortality rateExcess deathsMortality recordsMortality dataStudy sampleDeathVaccineConfronting the evolution and expansion of anti-vaccine activism in the USA in the COVID-19 era
Carpiano R, Callaghan T, DiResta R, Brewer N, Clinton C, Galvani A, Lakshmanan R, Parmet W, Omer S, Buttenheim A, Benjamin R, Caplan A, Elharake J, Flowers L, Maldonado Y, Mello M, Opel D, Salmon D, Schwartz J, Sharfstein J, Hotez P. Confronting the evolution and expansion of anti-vaccine activism in the USA in the COVID-19 era. The Lancet 2023, 401: 967-970. PMID: 36871571, PMCID: PMC9981160, DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)00136-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords
2022
The legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic for childhood vaccination in the USA
Opel DJ, Brewer NT, Buttenheim AM, Callaghan T, Carpiano RM, Clinton C, Elharake JA, Flowers LC, Galvani AP, Hotez PJ, Schwartz JL, Benjamin RM, Caplan A, DiResta R, Lakshmanan R, Maldonado YA, Mello MM, Parmet WE, Salmon DA, Sharfstein JM, Omer SB. The legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic for childhood vaccination in the USA. The Lancet 2022, 401: 75-78. PMID: 36309017, PMCID: PMC9605265, DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)01693-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH KeywordsCountry immunization policies for refugees across 20 low-middle income and 20 high-income countries
Elharake JA, Omer SB, Schwartz JL. Country immunization policies for refugees across 20 low-middle income and 20 high-income countries. Vaccine 2022, 40: 6017-6022. PMID: 36123257, DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.09.032.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsVaccine-preventable diseasesHigh-income countriesImmunization policyNational routine immunization programRoutine immunization programLow immunization coverageMiddle-income countriesImmunization programsImmunization coverageHealth conditionsCOVID-19 pandemicDiseaseLMICsRefugee populationsLower middle incomeHigher numberImmunizationEffectiveness of vaccination mandates in improving uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in the USA
Mello MM, Opel DJ, Benjamin RM, Callaghan T, DiResta R, Elharake JA, Flowers LC, Galvani AP, Salmon DA, Schwartz JL, Brewer NT, Buttenheim AM, Carpiano RM, Clinton C, Hotez PJ, Lakshmanan R, Maldonado YA, Omer SB, Sharfstein JM, Caplan A. Effectiveness of vaccination mandates in improving uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in the USA. The Lancet 2022, 400: 535-538. PMID: 35817078, PMCID: PMC9270060, DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(22)00875-3.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricInterventions to mitigate COVID-19 misinformation: protocol for a scoping review
Kumar N, Walter N, Nyhan K, Khoshnood K, Tucker JD, Bauch CT, Ding Q, Jones-Jang SM, De Choudhury M, Schwartz JL, Papakyriakopoulos O, Forastiere L. Interventions to mitigate COVID-19 misinformation: protocol for a scoping review. Systematic Reviews 2022, 11: 107. PMID: 35637514, PMCID: PMC9148843, DOI: 10.1186/s13643-022-01917-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsCOVID-19 vaccine perceptions in the initial phases of US vaccine roll-out: an observational study on reddit
Kumar N, Corpus I, Hans M, Harle N, Yang N, McDonald C, Sakai SN, Janmohamed K, Chen K, Altice FL, Tang W, Schwartz JL, Jones-Jang SM, Saha K, Memon SA, Bauch CT, Choudhury M, Papakyriakopoulos O, Tucker JD, Goyal A, Tyagi A, Khoshnood K, Omer S. COVID-19 vaccine perceptions in the initial phases of US vaccine roll-out: an observational study on reddit. BMC Public Health 2022, 22: 446. PMID: 35255881, PMCID: PMC8899002, DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-12824-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsCOVID-19 vaccine perceptionsVaccine perceptionsCOVID-19 vaccination servicesVaccine trial dataUS vaccineDevelopment of interventionsVaccine trialsVaccination servicesObservational studyVaccine informationTrial dataVaccineConclusionsOur findingsVaccine-related keywordsCOVID-19Vaccine misinformationEarly phaseInitial phaseAssociationFurther researchCommunication campaignsVaccinationResultsTherePrevalenceMethodsWeIncentives for COVID-19 vaccination
Brewer NT, Buttenheim AM, Clinton CV, Mello MM, Benjamin RM, Callaghan T, Caplan A, Carpiano RM, DiResta R, Elharake JA, Flowers LC, Galvani AP, Hotez PJ, Lakshmanan R, Maldonado YA, Omer SB, Salmon DA, Schwartz JL, Sharfstein JM, Opel DJ. Incentives for COVID-19 vaccination. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 2022, 8: 100205. PMID: 35229080, PMCID: PMC8866051, DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100205.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricUnderstanding the Factors Influencing Health Care Provider Recommendations about Adolescent Vaccines: A Proposed Framework
Ellingson MK, Bednarczyk RA, O’Leary S, Schwartz JL, Shapiro ED, Niccolai LM. Understanding the Factors Influencing Health Care Provider Recommendations about Adolescent Vaccines: A Proposed Framework. Journal Of Behavioral Medicine 2022, 46: 356-365. PMID: 35194726, PMCID: PMC8862696, DOI: 10.1007/s10865-022-00296-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts
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