Paul A. Offit
Pediatrician and vaccine scientist
Paul A. Offit is an American pediatrician and vaccine scientist who co-invented a rotavirus vaccine and has written books on science and medicine.
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American Born 1951 in Baltimore, United States
About Paul A. Offit
Paul A. Offit is an American pediatrician with expertise in infectious diseases, vaccines, immunology and virology. At Children's Hospital of Philadelphia he directs the Vaccine Education Center, and he holds the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology title at the University of Pennsylvania. He led the hospital's Division of Infectious Diseases from 1992 to 2014, and he co-invented a rotavirus vaccine that was licensed in 2006. Offit has authored over 130 scientific papers on how the body responds to rotavirus and on vaccine safety. He has served on advisory committees for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2023. His books cover the history of the anti-vaccine movement, vitamin supplements, the overuse of medical treatments and the Covid-19 pandemic. Do You Believe in Magic? is one of his books in our catalog.