Enrique Chacon Cruz, Felicitas Colombo, Javier Casellas, Vaccine, Vaccines, Vaccines Beat, Vaccinesbeat

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Enrique Chacon Cruz, Felicitas Colombo, Javier Casellas, Vaccine, Vaccines, Vaccines Beat, VaccinesbeatChief Editor Enrique Chacon-Cruz, M.D., MSc, Mexican-born medical doctor with a degree from Guadalajara, Mexico, and further specializations in Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases from institutions in Mexico City and the USA (Eastern Virginia Medical School). He also holds a Master’s degree in Vaccinology and Drug Development from the University of Siena, Italy. Currently, he is the CEO and Founder of “Think Vaccines” (Research, Education, and Consultancy for Vaccines and Vaccinology) based in Houston, Texas. With over 140 research items published and/or presented at international meetings and more than 500 international lectures, all focused on vaccines, vaccination, clinical trials, and vaccine-preventable diseases. The latter conducted independently or in association with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the University of California in San Diego, Eastern Virginia Medical School, and several other institutions. Additionally, He is the President of the Immunization Committee of the Mexican Association of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, he is a member of the Mexican Committee for the Elimination of Measles, Rubella, and Congenital Rubella, member of the Immunization and of the Health Equity Committees of the European Society of Medicine and Overseas Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine, United Kingdom. He is also the former Director of the Mexican Active Surveillance Network for Bacterial Meningitis and the former Head of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Department and the Research Department at the General Hospital of Tijuana, Baja-California, Mexico.

Managing EditorEnrique Chacon Cruz, Felicitas Colombo, Javier Casellas, Vaccine, Vaccines, Vaccines Beat, Vaccinesbeat Felicitas Colombo, MPA., Intelligethics LLC. 
Felicitas Colombo has spent over twenty years developing strategies with regional and global impact, fostering multi-stakeholder collaborations to shape better public policy. Ms. Colombo leads projects focused on regulatory and policy analysis, strategic communications, institutional relations, stakeholder engagement, partnerships, government relations, advocacy & awareness, access, and health education, aimed to drive policy advancements across various health topics.  Ms. Colombo has a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications, and an Executive Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics with a concentration in regulatory analysis, policy design and risk management. Skilled in identifying the viability of projects, developing tangible criteria for success and producing measurable results, while building consensus from different stakeholders through effective partnerships that convey evidence-based information.  Concerned with governance, risk management and ethics applicable in a broad range of public and private settings.